@andrewdoyle_com
For your free speech podcast, some information on how twitter applies censorship 'shadowbans' or 'reply deboosted' statuses. I tested a theory.
1. Checked my shadowban status. 9.36 am.
(It was fine. Yesterday's deboosted' status had expired)
For your free speech podcast, some information on how twitter applies censorship 'shadowbans' or 'reply deboosted' statuses. I tested a theory.
1. Checked my shadowban status. 9.36 am.
(It was fine. Yesterday's deboosted' status had expired)
2. Invited my followers to suggest a blue tick account I wasn't following so that we could conduct a live test.
One suggested @GBNEWS
One suggested @GBNEWS
4. Checked shadowban status immediately afterwards:
reply deboosted 10.06 am
reply deboosted 10.06 am
Accounts like mine are marked with an algorithm. We are auto-sanctioned for replying to blue ticks that we do not follow.
This drops our replies out of sight behind "see more replies'" buttons, or even "this may be offensive" buttons
This drops our replies out of sight behind "see more replies'" buttons, or even "this may be offensive" buttons
There is no official recognition of this, nor any way to appeal the decision or change the status of the account.
It's Twitter censorship, without even the integrity to acknowledge that it exists.
It manipulates the conversation.
On the basis that some people must be auto-muted
It's Twitter censorship, without even the integrity to acknowledge that it exists.
It manipulates the conversation.
On the basis that some people must be auto-muted
I suspect I could have replied with "I prefer puppies to kittens" and the result would be the same.
It isn't what I say that invokes the ban.
It's about who mustn't hear me, under any circumstances, on any topic.
I'm probably one of thousands.
So there you go.
It isn't what I say that invokes the ban.
It's about who mustn't hear me, under any circumstances, on any topic.
I'm probably one of thousands.
So there you go.
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