Musk: Twitter Update Will Let You Know if You’ve Been ‘shadow banned’; Elon Musk Offers Solution to Users Being ‘shadowbanned’ After Second ‘Twitter Files’ Exposes Company’s Bias

Twitter update will let you know if you’ve been ‘shadow banned’:

A new Twitter update will enable users to see if they’ve been “shadow banned,” Elon Musk announced Thursday — after a second “Twitter Files” installment purportedly showed the social media giant used the suppression tactic on a number of high-profile conservative voices.

“Twitter is working on a software update that will show your true account status, so you know clearly if you’ve been shadowbanned, the reason why and how to appeal,” Musk tweeted Thursday.

Musk revealed the update soon after independent journalist Bari Weiss shared a series of tweets detailing how Twitter for years has shadow banned, or blacklisted accounts without the user’s knowledge.

The majority of censored accounts belonged to conservative and far-right users, Weiss said.

The social media company would allegedly tag the accounts with “trends blacklist,” “search blacklist,” “do not amplify” and other toggles to prevent their tweets from reaching a wider audience. —>READ MORE HERE

Elon Musk offers solution to users being ‘shadowbanned’ after second ‘Twitter Files’ exposes company’s bias:

Elon Musk’s upcoming change to the Twitter platform will directly identify whether conservatives — or anyone — has been shadowbanned, and what users can do to rectify that status, the CEO said on Thursday.

Musk said the new change would be coming in a “software update,” but did not say when users could expect the change to go live.

“Twitter is working on a software update that will show your true account status, so you know clearly if you’ve been shadowbanned, the reason why and how to appeal,” he wrote hours after sharing the latest release of the “Twitter Files.”

Earlier on Thursday, Musk led the release of “Part Deux” of the “Twitter Files,” or internal documents including emails and other official communications that show how the company would “build blacklists” of certain users or tweets.

The internal documents were shared with journalist Bari Weiss, who shared the contents Thursday.

“A new #TwitterFiles investigation reveals that teams of Twitter employees build blacklists, prevent disfavored tweets from trending, and actively limit the visibility of entire accounts or even trending topics—all in secret, without informing users,” Weiss said in a thread.

“Twitter once had a mission ‘to give everyone the power to create and share ideas and information instantly, without barriers.’ Along the way, barriers nevertheless were erected,” she added. —>READ MORE HERE

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