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Podcast: Townhall Review | Commentaries
Episode: Ed Morrissey: Twitterâs Shadow-Ban Revealed
Description: For years, Twitter pushed back on complaintsâprimarily from the rightâabout suspected âshadow-banning.â Executives, including founder Jack Dorsey, repeatedly insisted in congressional testimony that no such practice took place. Now: Elon Musk has released Twitterâs algorithm and we know the truth. Twitter built its code to suppress comments based on complaints, blocks, and mutes, punishing users far more for such feedback than for âlikesâ and engagement. Twitter engineered its algorithm to incentivize block lists and complaint campaigns, both of which got widely adopted on the Left. It would not take many blocks, mutes and especially c...