Elon Musk has been keeping the Lib-Trolls busy as they try to excuse all the blatant partisan BS they denied was happening on Twitter. Just another right-wing conspiracy that turned out to be true.
We knew it was true. You could see from the changes in interaction. We saw it more with Facebook, but they at least told us they were doing it. Twitter denied it and lied about it, but that will no longer stand up. The Twitter Files Part II is online and there’s more there than you may have thought possible.
Twitter used visibility filtering, ” ‘Think about visibility filtering as being a way for us to suppress what people see to different levels. It’s a very powerful tool,”’one senior Twitter employee told us.” We call it shadowbanning.
They had a “Strategic Response Team – Global Escalation Team, or SRT-GET” that handled as many as 200 cases a day concerning limiting the reach of users.
There was even an elite top-level ban squad called the “Site Integrity Policy, Policy Escalation Support,” known as ‘SIP-PES’.” It looks like they made visibility filtering decisions for high-value high-follower users, including politicians.
All very political an partisan.
Bari Weiss delivers all of part two here (or view it on thread-reader here – same as below). But before you do, the first tweet to follow it is from Dinesh and says it all (and yes, there have been calls for Musk to release a list of everyone whose content was limited in any way without being notified).
Jack be nimble, Jack be quick, Jack be exposed as a lying prick! pic.twitter.com/mTDC5pQOd5
— Dinesh D’Souza (@DineshDSouza) December 9, 2022
Reminder. As a private business, Twitter has the right to ban or filter whomever it wanted, just like we do here, but the bastards lied about it and lied about the partisan viewpoint discrimination.
Here’s Part 2 of the Twitter Files.
THREAD: THE TWITTER FILES PART TWO.
TWITTER’S SECRET BLACKLISTS.
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