Twitter Files 2 dropping now at this thread.
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A new #TwitterFiles investigation reveals that teams of Twitter employees build blacklists, prevent disfavored tweets from trending, and actively limit the visibility of entire accounts or even trending topics—all in secret, without informing users.
Twitter once had a mission “to give everyone the power to create and share ideas and information instantly, without barriers.” Along the way, barriers nevertheless were erected.
Take, for example, Stanford’s Dr. Jay Bhattacharya ( @DrJBhattacharya ) who argued that Covid lockdowns would harm children. Twitter secretly placed him on a “Trends Blacklist,” which prevented his tweets from trending.
Or consider the popular right-wing talk show host, Dan Bongino ( @dbongino ), who at one point was slapped with a “Search Blacklist.”
Twitter set the account of conservative activist Charlie Kirk ( @charliekirk11 ) to “Do Not Amplify.”
Twitter denied that it does such things. In 2018, Twitter's Vijaya Gadde (then Head of Legal Policy and Trust) and Kayvon Beykpour (Head of Product) said: “We do not shadow ban.” They added: “And we certainly don’t shadow ban based on political viewpoints or ideology.”
What many people call “shadow banning,” Twitter executives and employees call “Visibility Filtering” or “VF.” Multiple high-level sources confirmed its meaning.
“Think about visibility filtering as being a way for us to suppress what people see to different levels. It’s a very powerful tool,” one senior Twitter employee told us.
“VF” refers to Twitter’s control over user visibility. It used VF to block searches of individual users; to limit the scope of a particular tweet’s discoverability; to block select users’ posts from ever appearing on the “trending” page; and from inclusion in hashtag searches.
All without users’ knowledge.
“We control visibility quite a bit. And we control the amplification of your content quite a bit. And normal people do not know how much we do,” one Twitter engineer told us. Two additional Twitter employees confirmed.
The group that decided whether to limit the reach of certain users was the Strategic Response Team - Global Escalation Team, or SRT-GET. It often handled up to 200 "cases" a day.
But there existed a level beyond official ticketing, beyond the rank-and-file moderators following the company’s policy on paper. That is the “Site Integrity Policy, Policy Escalation Support,” known as “SIP-PES.”
This secret group included Head of Legal, Policy, and Trust (Vijaya Gadde), the Global Head of Trust & Safety (Yoel Roth), subsequent CEOs Jack Dorsey and Parag Agrawal, and others.
This is where the biggest, most politically sensitive decisions got made. “Think high follower account, controversial,” another Twitter employee told us. For these “there would be no ticket or anything.”
Didn't they testify to Congress under oath that they didn't shadow ban? Perjury much?
Well... They don't shadow ban. They use visibility filters. Don't you know those are different things, ya stupid qtard? -Liberals 2018
Would be, but congress is a fake court so.....
The league of shadow banning just placed a wanted ad for a microwave emitter :)
There's more than these 15 tweets, people go read for yourselves! Don't stop here and say, "oh, we already knew that." There are 30 tweets total as of now.
https://twitter.com/bariweiss/status/1601007575633305600?s=20&t=eftEUQlI0F8JoMxsiWKWLA
So far just confirming what we already knew.
There is a difference between what we know and what we believe. Even if we believed it and we were right, it doesn’t reach the mainstream if it isn’t at least proven, and if it is believed but not yet known, the left will always dismiss it. So proving things we already believed might not be exciting, but it is an important part of Information Warfare.
This... Absolutely this. If anything we should feel vindicated.
It’s also critical to building our credibility.
It’s much easier to argue a logical, predictive argument if you have a track record of similar arguments that have been verifiably proven. A track record that serves to build a larger narrative that supports your latest argument.
We already have a strong, proven track record over the last couple of years, but proving that shadow bans and other despotic actions were happening as a matter of course at Twitter, is just one more (rather large) win to add to our record.
Well said. Also, this provides legal evidence.
Somehow I do not think this is for our consumption. There's a lot of people out there who never understood what was happening or how it all worked.
I agree with you. Even the writing seems at a 5th grade level.
oic, that's a good point, the character limit
sure, I knew what you meant! Kinda makes you wonder if that wasn't the point of the limited characters on Twitter.
u/#q1487
4 and 1/2 years ago. Taking their time.
Can't have a Kraken coming at all angels if you don't prepare it.
Kracken and angels?
Hmmm.
Crevice and angles.
I realized the spelling error lol.
When God sends his Angels, is it not a KRAKEN!?
I think the timing on this is critical.
First, Twitter is taken over and opened back up just at the time so much info is coming out on, for example, the farcedemic that was Covid and the bioweapons that are the vaxx. Data over time, easily presented, can now be put out for the remaining normies.
AT THE SAME TIME, they are being shown that all this life-saving information was being kept from them purposefully by media and social media giants. BOOM!
Now apply this to so many topics - election fraud, false flags, child trafficking, alternative medical life saving treatments, and so on!
They are putting the evidence out there... remember that Episode one made it clear that the Government (Congressional Democrats) was involved through the Partners portal.. That is election interference..
Didn't Twitter's Vijaya Gadde testify before Congress and deny they were doing these things UNDER OATH? Do only normal citizens suffer penalties for lying to Congress?
She's going to be on the next plain to Goa, I'm thinking. She knows that she's fucked and is going to take her millions are GTFO out of the US as fast as she can.
ONLY if someone takes over the DOJ. (Hoping military)
First Matt Taibi and no bari Weiss. All liberal journalists at one point. Whose next?
Can't be a conservative/Republican if we want it to be taken seriously by someone outside of the "already awake" community
I'd argue the most qualified person to dissect and report the Twitter files would be Allum Bokhari. Unfortunately, he's the senior tech reporter at Breitbart, so that would've been used to discredit the validity of the files.
I’m not disagreeing with the strategy. Just pointing out the liberal minds that are breaking
Fun to watch, isn't it? All that bottled up hatred is just oozing out their eyeballs right now.
Contrast that to our side: comfy and enjoying watching this go down!
This has been an excruciating slow process for us but think about the other side of the coin and how it’s unfolding. They are spinning.
Was thinking that as well. And if they dip their toes into a dig or perhaps the news we see in the past week…their brains are gonna get wrecked, lol. In a good way though. 👍
there's the problem. normies dont give 2 shits as long as their tiktok and fagbook are working
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thank you for this
Thank you fren!
Looks to me like they do the shell game of "Of course we shadow ban, but since we don't call it shadow banning, we technically do not shadow ban."
Edit: "You reporting on terrible things people are doing to children is creating a threat that I cannot specifically define, so I'm banning you. Oh, someone posting a picture of your house is a direct threat to you? That's fine. our politics don't align so if someone kills you I'm ok with it."
Of course they are, which is why this is so important for normies to thoroughly understand, before the other alphabet interference in FB, IG, and then MSM are outed.
Just parking this link (to a PDF) here for the moment...
https://www.judiciary.senate.gov/download/dorsey-response-questions-for-the-record
Accumulating stuff...
https://www.vox.com/2017/10/31/16562342/facebook-russia-congress-google-twitter-lawyers-ads
https://www.vox.com/recode/2019/6/27/18760444/twitter-kayvon-beykpour-vijaya-gadde-kara-swisher-peter-kafka-code-conference-interview-transcript
https://www.law.com/corpcounsel/2022/04/01/twitter-clo-vijaya-gadde-earned-17-million-in-2021/?slreturn=20221109054847
Well I have today's reading material....
It feels like we are being fed a low grade BS story just enough to say here is what we have everyone happy now....right?
Lol. Classic! The dumb thief’s denial.
We do not steal. And if we did we wouldn’t steal from the poor.
Deep State clowns may have to stay up all night to see if their name pops up.
There are only 3 phases of file drops.
The 3rd phase brings justice and suicided weekend.
Dig.
they're showing left wing bias. you forget majority of the world is retarded and dont even know theres censorship going on
I remember Twitter execs claimed under oath and claimed "Shadow Banning" did not exist. This drops prove they were lying under oath. Thats for starters.
But the real point is to show people how their world view was shaped by a private company, in conjunction with the Dems.
For all of us who knew all this all along, yeah nothing new. But for the normies - this is HUGE.
It is the perfect topic to discuss with normies over the Christmas festivities. It opens the door to get the mind to wonder what other info was being suppressed, such as, BLM riots, woke adjendas and COVID restrictions.
Exactly.
They are expecting protections because they’re a platform/forum but when they decide what content to include and exclude they have now made themselves a publisher and are responsible for what their users say including libel/slander.
Were you the one that posted the nothing burger meme in the thread replies?
You do realize you can build your own community and see exactly what is available right?