Earon mask endorsed internal document 'Twitter file' that reveals the actual situation of Twitter's 'Shadow Ban' will be released



Elon Musk, who acquired Twitter and became CEO, is helping spread the thread `` Twitter file '' where journalists publish Twitter's internal information collectively, and in December 2022, `` Twitter Inside, the power of the Democratic Party supporters was overwhelmingly strong, hiding the corruption of President Biden's son.' The first `` Twitter file '' has been released. Newly, on December 9, 2022, the second ``Twitter file'' was released that reveals the actual situation of ``Shadowban'' that Twitter is secretly conducting.




Among Twitter users, it is pointed out that Twitter is doing 'shadow ban' which hides specific users and posts from search results. However, in 2020, Twitter Japan's official account said, ``It is pointed out that Twitter is conducting shadowbanning, but it has never been done, nor has it been done in the past.'' Twitter denied the implementation of shadowbanning. I'm here.




The second 'Twitter file', which reveals the reality of such a shadowban, was released on December 9, 2022. Mr. Bali Weiss, a journalist, released the second 'Twitter file', and it can be said that Mr. Mask's endorsement information because Mr. Mask quoted and retweeted it.




Below is an example of a shadow van published by Mr. Weiss. A photo that seems to be Twitter's internal system is attached, and Jay Bhattacharya of Stanford University, who claimed that ``Implementing a lockdown as a response to the new coronavirus may harm children,'' said ``Trend You can see that it is on the blacklist.




According to Weiss, Shadowbang is called 'Visibility Filtering' or 'VF' inside Twitter. Twitter employees and executives say that visibility filtering can ``exclude specific users from search results'', ``make specific tweets less discoverable'', and ``exclude specific users' posts from trends''. It reveals that it was running without Also, a Twitter engineer said, ``General users don't know how much visibility we manage,'' admitting that the existence of visibility filtering was hidden from users. increase.




Target users for shadowbans were primarily determined by an internal team called the 'global escalation team' or 'SRT-GET'. Both teams said they were shadowbanning up to 200 users a day.




The above team selected shadowbanned users according to Twitter's content policy, but the team called 'Site Integrity Policy and Policy Escalation Support (SIP-PES)' has its own criteria regardless of the content policy. I was deciding who to ban. Mr. Jack Dorsey and Mr. Paragu Agrawal, who were CEOs of Twitter, also participated in SIP-PES.




In SIP-PES, politically sensitive decisions were being made. Below is an example of an account that was subject to scrutiny by SIP-PES. `` Libs of TikTok '', which is known as an anti-LGBT account, is designated as a `` trend blacklist '', and a warning message is displayed at the top of the screen, ``Do not make changes to the account without consulting with SIP-PES.'' I'm here.




Below is a message sent to the company's Slack in 2021 by Yoel Roth, who was head of the Trust & Safety Department. Ross tells his in-house research team that research needs to progress to expand ``non-delete interventions, such as disabling engagement and visibility filtering.'' In addition, Mr. Ross said , 'We also got Jack's consent.' From this, we can see that Twitter executives were actively involved in the expansion of Shadowban.




After the second ``Twitter file'' revealing the reality of the Shadowban was released, Mr. Mask said, ``The rules were applied to the right and not to the left,'' and Shadowban is mainly the Republican Party. It claims it was conducted against members and Republican supporters.




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