{"id":44567,"date":"2019-03-19T06:15:17","date_gmt":"2019-03-19T11:15:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=44567"},"modified":"2019-03-19T06:15:19","modified_gmt":"2019-03-19T11:15:19","slug":"twitter-admits-shadowbanning-lisa-page-tweet-by-federalist-co-founder-to-keep-people-safe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=44567","title":{"rendered":"Twitter Admits Shadowbanning Lisa Page Tweet By Federalist Co-Founder &#8220;To Keep People Safe&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/news\/2019-03-18\/twitter-admits-shadowbanning-lisa-page-tweet-federalist-co-founder-keep-people-safe\">Twitter Admits Shadowbanning Lisa Page Tweet By Federalist Co-Founder &#8220;To Keep People Safe&#8221;\u00a0<\/a><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Twitter has admitted to shadowbanning a tweet by&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/thefederalist.com\/\"><em>The Federalist<\/em><\/a>&nbsp;co-founder Sean Davis&nbsp;in order to &#8220;keep people safe.&#8221;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Tweeting a passage last week from former FBI attorney Lisa Page&#8217;s Congressional testimony discussing the FBI&#8217;s rush to find connections between the Trump campaign and Russia,&nbsp;<strong>Davis&nbsp;pointed out the irony of Hillary Clinton&#8217;s campaign employing former UK spy Christopher Steele, a foreign national, &#8220;working with Russians to obtain damaging information about Donald Trump.&#8221;&nbsp;<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/zh-prod-1cc738ca-7d3b-4a72-b792-20bd8d8fa069.storage.googleapis.com\/s3fs-public\/inline-images\/davis%20tweet.png\" alt=\"\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Of note, the dossier Steele compiled which was subsequently used to obtain a warrant to spy on a Trump adviser (and later smear Trump) relied on a &#8220;senior Russian Foreign Ministry figure&#8221; and &#8220;a former top level intelligence officer still active in the Kremlin,&#8221; according to&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.vanityfair.com\/news\/2017\/03\/how-the-explosive-russian-dossier-was-compiled-christopher-steele\"><em>Vanity Fair<\/em><\/a>.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/zh-prod-1cc738ca-7d3b-4a72-b792-20bd8d8fa069.storage.googleapis.com\/s3fs-public\/inline-images\/sources%20vf.png\" alt=\"\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Following his March 12 tweet, Davis wondered if Twitter was experimenting with &#8220;shadow bans&#8221; &#8211; as he could only see his tweet if he was logged in, meaning\u00a0<strong>nobody else could see it.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/pbs.twimg.com\/media\/D1eVTOuXgAcB62I?format=jpg&amp;name=360x360\" alt=\"View image on Twitter\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/seanmdav\/status\/1105516981690814464\/photo\/1\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/pbs.twimg.com\/media\/D1eVXJiWwAAWtKu?format=jpg&amp;name=360x360\" alt=\"View image on Twitter\"\/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/seanmdav\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/pbs.twimg.com\/profile_images\/378800000759882201\/91684b5541a0d497f2a22507dfd79a2b_normal.png\" alt=\"\"\/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/seanmdav\"><strong><\/strong><strong>\u2714<\/strong><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/seanmdav\/status\/1105516981690814464\"><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Is <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Twitter\">@Twitter<\/a> experimenting with shadow bans by deleting tweets so others can&#8217;t see them, but keeping them visible to you while you&#8217;re logged in?  I had to re-publish my original Lisa Page transcript tweet because it was disappeared to everyone but me.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Six days later,\u00a0<strong>Twitter confirmed with Davis that they had deliberately shadow-banned his tweet in order to &#8220;keep people safe.&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&nbsp;\u2026click on the above link to read the rest of the article\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Twitter Admits Shadowbanning Lisa Page Tweet By Federalist Co-Founder &#8220;To Keep People Safe&#8221;\u00a0 Twitter has admitted to shadowbanning a tweet by&nbsp;The Federalist&nbsp;co-founder Sean Davis&nbsp;in order to &#8220;keep people safe.&#8221;&nbsp; Tweeting a passage last week from former FBI attorney Lisa Page&#8217;s Congressional testimony discussing the FBI&#8217;s rush to find connections between the Trump campaign and Russia,&nbsp;Davis&nbsp;pointed [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[120,21444,819],"class_list":["post-44567","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-liberty","tag-censorship","tag-shadowbanning","tag-twitter"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44567","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=44567"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44567\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":44568,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44567\/revisions\/44568"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=44567"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=44567"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=44567"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}