{"id":371115,"date":"2018-07-27T22:24:18","date_gmt":"2018-07-27T21:24:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/in-bizarre-response-twitter-tells-trump-it-does-not-shadowban-while-admitting-it-does\/"},"modified":"2018-07-27T22:24:18","modified_gmt":"2018-07-27T21:24:18","slug":"in-bizarre-response-twitter-tells-trump-it-does-not-shadowban-while-admitting-it-does","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/in-bizarre-response-twitter-tells-trump-it-does-not-shadowban-while-admitting-it-does\/","title":{"rendered":"In Bizarre Response, Twitter Tells Trump It Does Not Shadowban While Admitting It Does"},"content":{"rendered":"
\n

In response to growing outrage over the practice of “shadow banning” conservatives, as confirmed last week by the liberal publication VICE and promptly tweeted about by President Trump, Twitter issued a strange explanation to “set the record straight,” where they explicitly state that they do not engage in the practice – except then they describe how they do exactly that.<\/p>\n

\n

“People are asking us if we shadow ban. We do not. But let\u2019s start with, \u201cwhat is shadow banning?\u201d<\/p>\n

The best definition we found is this: deliberately making someone\u2019s content undiscoverable to everyone except the person who posted it, unbeknownst to the original poster.” -Twitter<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Then, Twitter reiterates they don’t shadow ban – with the caveat in parentheses that you may need to go directly to the timeline of some users in order to see their tweets. (tee hee!)<\/p>\n

\n

“We do not shadow ban. You are always able to see the tweets from accounts you follow (although you may have to do more work to find them, like go directly to their profile). And we certainly don\u2019t shadow ban based on political viewpoints or ideology.” -Twitter<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

In other words, Twitter says they don’t shadow ban – it’s just that tweets from people you follow may never appear unless you click directly into their timeline.<\/p>\n

\n

This is remarkable from $TWTR<\/a>
– defines shadowbanning
– says they don’t shadowban
– then says that for some accounts you have to go visit them to see their tweets@jack<\/a> you might need to take the nosering out and clean…<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n

Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

In response to growing outrage over the practice of “shadow banning” conservatives, as confirmed last week by the liberal publication VICE and promptly tweeted about by President Trump, Twitter issued a strange explanation to “set the record straight,” where they explicitly state that they do not engage in the practice – except then they describe […]<\/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-371115","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\/371115","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=371115"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/371115\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=371115"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=371115"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=371115"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}