Twitter Secret Blacklists Exposed in New Release of Files

[Valletta]

"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. . ."

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3. 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.

BREAKING: Twitter Files part two released, exposing ‘secret blacklists’

Conservatives and lockdown skeptics were targeted by Twitter and tagged with internal tags such as “Do Not Amplify” and “Search Blacklist”

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[essentialsaltes]

Yes, Twitter moderates content. No one ever thought otherwise.

ETA: more than 4 years ago, Twitter told everyone that they ranked tweets and searches to mute 'unhealthy' messages.

We do rank tweets and search results. We do this because Twitter is most useful when it’s immediately relevant. These ranking models take many signals into consideration to best organize tweets for timely relevance. We must also address bad-faith actors who intend to manipulate or detract from healthy conversation.

 

[Pommer]

"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. . ."

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3. 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.

BREAKING: Twitter Files part two released, exposing ‘secret blacklists’

Conservatives and lockdown skeptics were targeted by Twitter and tagged with internal tags such as “Do Not Amplify” and “Search Blacklist”

thepostmillennial.com

Let’s try talking openly about the moderation of our present forum?
Not allowed?
The irony, it burns.

 

[Ignatius the Kiwi]

I'm glad the managers don't control Twitter any more and this information is being released. Hope Elon doesn't make the same mistake and let twitter fall into their hands again.

 

[IceJad]

Yes, Twitter moderates content. No one ever thought otherwise.

Old Twitter manipulates content. No one is surprised. There a more accurate description. The so called trending is not organic nor algorithmic. And based on release information all the censoring, de-boosting, shadow banning and outright banning heavily favors one side of the partisanship. No cookie for guessing which side.

 

[Valletta]

Yes, Twitter moderates content. No one ever thought otherwise.

Beyond that Twitter was deceptive. They would stop a category of comments from showing as trending. In other words, they would misrepresent user interest.

 

[essentialsaltes]

And based on release information

Will Twitter release the information about the closed door meeting between its CEO and Trump in the White House? Or any other interactions with the Trump Administration?

 

[essentialsaltes]

Beyond that Twitter was deceptive. They would stop a category of comments from showing as trending. In other words, they would misrepresent user interest.

I wonder if Miller Lite actually tastes great and is less filling.

 

[IceJad]

Will Twitter release the information about the closed door meeting between its CEO and Trump in the White House? Or any other interactions with the Trump Administration?

There is already release on how both Trump's and Biden's administrations have requested their censorship. That is why I said heavily favors. I didn't said only one side. You should read the released information. They might not the be full information but I have a gut feeling sooner or later the majority of the information will be out in the wild.

 

[IceJad]

Will Twitter release the information about the closed door meeting between its CEO and Trump in the White House? Or any other interactions with the Trump Administration?

And why are you bringing up Trump with me. I'm not American, I don't fancy either side. Both sides have their own skeletons. Too bad Twitter with their bias made the left looked worse with the releases. If they would have favored the right more then the releases now will make the right look worse. I guess you can call this reaping what you sow.

 

[Pommer]

Beyond that Twitter was deceptive. They would stop a category of comments from showing as trending. In other words, they would misrepresent user interest.

I used to (as a boy), go to the movies on Saturday. The $1 allowance allowed for the 50¢ Theater ticket and 50¢ worth of candy.
Anyways, there’d be the short subjects and cartoons before the beginning of the double-feature and never once did that dern coyote get that roadrunner.
I think I was being led-on!

Seriously though, Twitter is “entertainment” it’s not “real life”.

 

[Valletta]

I used to (as a boy), go to the movies on Saturday. The $1 allowance allowed for the 50¢ Theater ticket and 50¢ worth of candy.
Anyways, there’d be the short subjects and cartoons before the beginning of the double-feature and never once did that dern coyote get that roadrunner.
I think I was being led-on!

Seriously though, Twitter is “entertainment” it’s not “real life”.

Social media is a big part of the U.S. infrastructure, with Twitter a major player. This is systemic fraud which altered the results of elections. The fascists involved must be brought to justice.

 

[Larniavc]

"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. . ."

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3. 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.

BREAKING: Twitter Files part two released, exposing ‘secret blacklists’

Conservatives and lockdown skeptics were targeted by Twitter and tagged with internal tags such as “Do Not Amplify” and “Search Blacklist”

thepostmillennial.com

How did you not already know this? Just what do you think moderators do?

 

[Valletta]

How did you not already know this? Just what do you think moderators do?

Don't you know the difference between moderating and fraud? Moderators can delete posts deemed improper, moderators can ban people, Twitter banned President Trump. But it is another thing, for example, to falsely portray trending topics. If the New York Times bestseller list put a book at number one that had not sold any copies, that would be fraudulent. Or for example, let's say the FBI had determined the Hunter Biden laptop was real, but put out a story saying it was Russian disinformation, that would be fraudulent.

 

[Tuur]

Yes, Twitter moderates content. No one ever thought otherwise.

Technically, bias against conservatives on a forum is moderation. It's still bias. Your post seems to imply you believe no bias existed. Is that your belief?

 

[Tuur]

I used to (as a boy), go to the movies on Saturday. The $1 allowance allowed for the 50¢ Theater ticket and 50¢ worth of candy.
Anyways, there’d be the short subjects and cartoons before the beginning of the double-feature and never once did that dern coyote get that roadrunner.
I think I was being led-on!

Seriously though, Twitter is “entertainment” it’s not “real life”.

It's entertainment in the sense that us posting comments here is entertainment. Unless some of us are lying, it's also real life. Fiction, crafting imaginary accounts is both entertainment and not real life.

 

[Larniavc]

Moderators can delete posts deemed improper, moderators can ban people

And delete tweets. Which is what happened. Didn’t you even know that?

 

[pgp_protector]

Who follows twitter for news or to know whom to vote for though?
Wouldn't you go directly to either news sites or candidate sites?

 

[essentialsaltes]

Technically, bias against conservatives on a forum is moderation. It's still bias. Your post seems to imply you believe no bias existed. Is that your belief?

I expect there's less bias than people are suggesting. If these media are suppressing misinformation, and one political wing is more misinformed, then an evenhanded moderation of misinformation may appear politically biased.

But more importantly, I don't care whether bias existed. Private companies are allowed to proclaim Jesus or suppress communism.

This website has moderation policies, but I'm not referring the matter to a Congressional subcommittee.

Any hint that government power should be used to regulate these private companies is an actual threat to the First Amendment, unlike biased moderation policies.

 

[essentialsaltes]

https://thehill.com/policy/technology/3742157-musk-says-hate-tweets-will-be-deboosted-demonetized/

“New Twitter policy is freedom of speech, but not freedom of reach,” Musk tweeted.

“Negative/hate tweets will be max deboosted & demonetized, so no ads or other revenue to Twitter. You won’t find the tweet unless you specifically seek it out, which is no different from rest of Internet,” he added.