Thread by @charliekirk11

In 2018, I met with Jack Dorsey. I have never talked about this publicly before.

He assured me Twitter did not "shadow ban" accounts. Either he lied or these policies didn't take effect until later, which is plausible based on what happened next.

Within 6 months of our meeting, I began to notice severe throttling of certain posts that were obviously being suppressed. I reached back out to the executives I had previously met, and while attempting to get answers to the drop in engagement, they just stopped responding.

In 2019, Axios named my account as one of the Top 10 most engaged in the county. Then, in the run-up to the 2020 election, I witnessed a precipitous, massive drop in engagement. It was obvious at that point I was being directly targeted and censored.

While some Tweets still seemed capable of breaking through it became very rare, and after January 6, basically overnight, I lost 200k followers (presumably, according to Twitter at the time, these were bots?) and engagement was essentially dead.

For the next two years, I had zero engagement and zero follower growth, but Twitter would still trend "Charlie Kirk" if someone else tweeted about me.

Since Elon's purchase of Twitter, I've seen follower growth and engagement ramp back up significantly. Not quite back to 2018/2019 levels, but close.

Now we know why.

We will never know how much damage Twitter's censorship of my account and others' has done to the public discourse, the marketplace of ideas, my work at TPUSA, or the 2020 Presidential election. Twitter may be a private company, but this was digital tyranny, full stop.

I'm happy Elon Musk and Bari Weiss have confirmed my account was targeted, but every Twitter user deserves to know if they too were targeted in some way. Twitter should publicly release ALL information on shadowbans, no matter how large or small the target was. Let the truth out.