I wad taking to a lefty friend of mine earlier today and he was telling me the journalist that exposed the Twitter files got banned on Twitter. I don't know much about Twitter and I couldn't find him or the Twitter files. Does anyone know what's going on with them? They were a great resource for showing people the blatant censorship of the MSM so I'm wondering why they would be removed.
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My experience with Twitter lately is that they seem to be using AI to partition the platform. If you hate Trump for example, they try and inhibit showing you posts they feel you might not agree with. It allows them to create many different echo chambers where everyone is happy and thinks they are the dominant voice.
They allow a little controversy crossing boundaries to keep engagement up, but only if you are a blue checkmark.
Sadly, they seem to have misunderstood (or intentionally framed) the divide as Democrat v. Republican. Thus, I still see a lot of posts by deranged Never Trump Republicans supporting Desantis. And unfortunately they haven't yet figured out they need to segment off the flat earth crowd. But I have done some simple experiments. My sisters friends in Washington state are very liberal, and my posts seem to be hidden from them unless they specifically look for me.
The X censorship algorithm seems to be extremely sophisticated now. They have apparently realized they can't afford to let the MAGA crowd go off platform, but they also won't let the unawake and unaware be exposed to triggering information. I guess that might hurt their delicate feelings.
The point is, if you can't find someone, it's more likely that Twitter has partitioned them off from you, rather than that they were censored altogether. If you can figure out their username and follow them directly, you can likely adjust the AI's perception of what you want to see.