{"id":371074,"date":"2018-07-27T16:20:26","date_gmt":"2018-07-27T15:20:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/donald-trump-vows-investigation-of-twitter-shadow-banning-republicans\/"},"modified":"2018-07-27T16:20:26","modified_gmt":"2018-07-27T15:20:26","slug":"donald-trump-vows-investigation-of-twitter-shadow-banning-republicans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/donald-trump-vows-investigation-of-twitter-shadow-banning-republicans\/","title":{"rendered":"Donald Trump Vows Investigation of Twitter \u2018Shadow Banning\u2019 Republicans"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"\">\n<p>President Donald Trump vowed Thursday to investigate Twitter for their practice of \u201cshadow banning\u201d Republicans and conservatives.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNot good. We will look into this discriminatory and illegal practice at once!\u201d Trump wrote on Twitter. \u201cMany complaints.\u201d<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-lang=\"en\">\n<p>Twitter \u201cSHADOW BANNING\u201d prominent Republicans. Not good. We will look into this discriminatory and illegal practice at once! Many complaints.<\/p>\n<p> \u2014 Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/realDonaldTrump\/status\/1022447980408983552?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">July 26, 2018<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Red Ice has covered <a href=\"news\/twitter-engineers-to-ban-a-way-of-talking-through-shadow-banning-algorithms-to-censor-opposing-political-opinions\" target=\"_blank\">Twitter\u2019s practice of hiding tweets <\/a>and accounts for well over a year. On Monday, Breitbart\u2019s Allum Bokhari\u00a0reported\u00a0on Twitter\u2019s latest \u201cshadow ban\u201d attempt on his account and other Breitbart News reporters as well as prominent Republicans. Recently, left-leaning outlets have also reported on the issue.<\/p>\n<p>A Twitter spokesman told\u00a0VICE News\u00a0Wednesday that their technology was based on \u201caccount *behavior* not the content of Tweets.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>VICE reported that Republican party chair Ronna McDaniel, Donald Trump Jr.\u2019s spokesman Andy Surabian, and other conservative Republicans no longer appear in the auto-populated search box on Twitter.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<section>\n<h2>Comments<\/h2>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/redice.tv\/news\/donald-trump-vows-investigation-of-twitter-shadow-banning-republicans\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>President Donald Trump vowed Thursday to investigate Twitter for their practice of \u201cshadow banning\u201d Republicans and conservatives. \u201cNot good. We will look into this discriminatory and illegal practice at once!\u201d Trump wrote on Twitter. \u201cMany complaints.\u201d Twitter \u201cSHADOW BANNING\u201d prominent Republicans. Not good. We will look into this discriminatory and illegal practice at once! Many [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2520,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-371074","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/371074","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2520"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=371074"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/371074\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=371074"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=371074"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=371074"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}