{"id":36070,"date":"2018-07-20T06:42:08","date_gmt":"2018-07-20T11:42:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=36070"},"modified":"2018-07-20T06:42:08","modified_gmt":"2018-07-20T11:42:08","slug":"twitter-caught-censoring-conservative-journalists-with-site-wide-shadowbans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=36070","title":{"rendered":"Twitter Caught Censoring Conservative Journalists With Site-Wide Shadowbans"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Twitter Caught Censoring Conservative Journalists With Site-Wide Shadowbans<\/span><\/a><\/h3>\n<\/div>\n
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Two days after Twitter told Congress that they aren’t politically biased when censoring content<\/a>, several prominent conservatives discovered that the social media giant\u00a0automatically includes them in a site-wide “Quality Filter Discrimination” shadowban<\/strong>\u00a0which\u00a0prevents anyone not already following them from viewing their\u00a0posts.<\/p>\n

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While the filters have been around since August 2016 and were supercharged\u00a0in May<\/a>, Twitter’s aggressive censorship of\u00a0conservative accounts was noticed Thursday afternoon by the\u00a0Daily Wire<\/em>‘s Ryan Saavedra,\u00a0after he said\u00a0he saw reduced activity following a\u00a0viral tweet<\/a> with 3.85 million views in which\u00a0Democratic Rep. Maxine Waters (CA) calls\u00a0for attacks on members of the Trump administration. In short order,\u00a0a flood of influential\u00a0conservative Twitter users discovered\u00a0they were shadowbanned also\u00a0<\/strong>using an account checking\u00a0tool at\u00a0shadowban.eu<\/em><\/a>.<\/p>\n

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Twitter shadow ban test says I am shadowbanned.
\nI noticed my account was getting a lot less activity after I posted a video about Maxine Waters that went viral.
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to see @<\/span>Twitter<\/span><\/a> @<\/span>TwitterSupport<\/span><\/a> @<\/span>Jack<\/span><\/a> @<\/span>LeslieBerland<\/span><\/a> censoring conservative reporters.<\/p>\n