Twitter’s ‘Secret Blacklists’ Exposed

The practice of "shadow bans," often referred to as "visibility filtering" internally, is detailed in a recent investigation. Twitter's ‘secret blacklists’ have been exposed.

According to internal correspondence and interviews with several high-level corporate sources, Twitter has developed a number of barriers and tools for moderators to prevent particular tweets and topics from trending or restrict the exposure of entire accounts without users' knowledge.

According to journalist Bar...

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