Twitter: We Don’t Shadowban, Unless You’re a ‘Bad-Faith Actor’
1st August 2018
Tech companies are re-writing the dictionary and its hard to keep up with all the changing definitions.
President Trump, the RNC chair Ronna McDaniel, and GOP members of Congress all reacted on July 26 when Vice released a study indicating that Twitter was shadowbanning conservatives by removing them as results in the Twitter search bar. CEO Jack Dorsey and several other employees denied it several times on Twitter and released a blog post saying that they did not shadowban. Well, sort of.
Twitter qualified its statement saying unless a user was a “bad-faith actor” or interacted with “other communities” that were bad faith actors.
I.e. ‘not progressive’.