Twitter employees have built a blacklist and actively restrict the visibility of the entire account, according to the second part of Elon Musk’s “Twitter Profile” that sheds light on management’s covert practices the company’s previous management. “A new #TwitterFiles investigation reveals that teams of Twitter employees have built a blacklist, preventing unpopular tweets from trending and actively limiting the visibility of entire accounts. or even trending topics – all secretly without informing the user,” said The Free Press editor Bari Weiss, in a series of tweets.
“Twitter was once on a mission to give people the ability to create and share ideas and information instantly, without barriers. Along the way, barriers are still being erected,” she added.
2. Twitter was once on a mission to “give people the power to create and share ideas and information instantly, without barriers.” Along the way, barriers were still erected.
– Bari Weiss (@bariweiss) December 9, 2022
Although management had previously denied reports of a shadow ban, Weiss said Twitter executives and employees used a powerful tool like “Display Filtering or VF” to block individual user searches and to limit the discoverability of a particular tweet.
Weiss says that “VF” refers to Twitter’s control over user visibility. “It used VF to block individual user searches; to limit the discoverability of a specific tweet; to block selected user posts from ever appearing on the coin page. direction; and to include hashtag searches.”
She said that a select group, which handles up to 200 “cases” a day, decided whether to limit the reach of certain users was the Strategic Response Team – Escalation Team Global.
“But there exists a level beyond the official ticketing, beyond the moderator’s rank as per company policy on paper. That is the Site Integrity Policy, Support Policy Escalation, known as SIP-PES,” she added.
Weiss says that this confidential team includes Head of Legal, Policy and Trust Vijaya Gadde, Head of Global Safety and Trust Yoel Roth, and subsequent CEOs Jack Dorsey and Agrawal Đoạn passageand others.
“This is where the biggest, most politically sensitive decisions are made. Think high-following, controversial accounts,” another Twitter employee told us. For those this decision won’t have tickets or anything,” she said.
Last week, journalist Matt Taibbi in collaboration with Musk published a “Twitter Profile,” which documents Twitter’s internal communications to reveal connections to political actors and focuses on social revolution. This association blocks stories related to Hunter Biden’s laptop ahead of the 2020 US presidential election.
Published files allege that Twitter management had previously taken steps to suppress reporting related to Hunter Biden’s laptop before the 2020 US Presidential Election.
According to Twitter Files published by Taibbi, Twitter’s deputy general counsel, James Baker, played a role in the discussion about whether the laptop story falls within Twitter’s “hacked material” policy or not.
The Biden family has faced scrutiny and criticism from Republicans and others for their alleged misconduct in Hunter Biden’s overseas business dealings. attracted public attention after the emails were published.
On Monday, the White House dismissed Twitter Files as “full of old news”.
