Twitter secretly placed Stanford’s Dr. Jay Bhattacharya,
who argued that Covid lockdowns would harm children, on a “Trends Blacklist,” which prevented his tweets from trending — update 3 on #TwitterFiles revealed
UPDATE 4: Dan Bongino was placed on a “Search Blacklist” by Twitter, Weiss reported
UPDATE 5 — More suppression by Twitter
UPDATE 6 — In 2018, Twitter's Vijaya Gadde (then Head of Legal Policy and Trust) said that they do not shadowban accounts on viewpoints or ideology, Weiss reported
UPDATE 7: Twitter changed the name of shadow-bans, called it Visibility Filtering — #TwitterFiles2
UPDATE 8 - Twitter employee on suppression via visibility filtering
UPDATE 12: “The group that decided whether to limit the reach of certain users was the Strategic Response Team - Global Escalation Team, or SRT-GET. It often handled up to 200 "cases" a day,” Weiss revealed
UPDATE- 13 and 14 — Former CEOs were part of the “secret group”
UPDATE 15 — “This is where the biggest, most politically sensitive decisions got made. “Think high follower account, controversial,” another Twitter employee told us. For these “there would be no ticket or anything.” — Weiss tweeted
UPDATE 16: Libs of TikTok account was placed on “Trends Blacklist”
UPDATE 17: More details on Libs of TikTok account
UPDATE 18: Weiss reports that Twitter repeatedly informed Raichik [Libs of TikTok] that she had been suspended for violating Twitter’s policy against “hateful conduct.” #TwitterFiles2
UPDATE 19: An internal SIP-PES memo from October 2022, after her seventh suspension, shows that the committee acknowledged that Libs of TikTok has not directly engaged in behavior violative of the Hateful Conduct policy, Weiss tweeted
UPDATE 20 and 21 on discuss more about Libs of TikTok #TwitterFiles
UPDATE 22: “When Raichik told Twitter that her address had been disseminated she says Twitter Support responded with this message: "We reviewed the reported content, and didn't find it to be in violation of the Twitter rules." No action was taken. The doxxing tweet is still up”
UPDATE 23 on Yoel Roth, Twitter’s then Global Head of Trust & Safety
UPDATE 24: Yoel Roth, Twitter’s then Global Head of Trust & Safety, discuss suppressing content via visibility filtering - #TwitterFiles
UPDATE 25 and 26 discuss what Roth said in update 24
UPDATE 27 - There’s more to come on this story on website of The Free Press — #TwitterFiles
UPDATE 28: #TwitterFiles “material would first be published on Twitter”
UPDATE 29 and 30 — Next Twitter Files / installment update:
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UPDATES: Firefighters currently remain at the scene and are 'trying to find the source' of the possible explosion. EMS personnel have claimed that FDNY crews are investigating 'multiple maintenance hole fires', reports allege - Daily Mail
UPDATE: Power outages reported after small explosions on Roosevelt Island, FDNY investigating - ABC7
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