A bombshell ‘Twitter Files’ drop on Thursday appears to show former Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey and other top executives lied about “shadow banning” conservatives in his testimony before Congress in 2018.
“Shadow banning” is essentially the idea that a user’s account is being secretly throttled – hidden from other users – without the platform notifying the user that they’ve done something wrong to deserve it.
The evidence was presented on Twitter by journalist Bari Weiss as part of new owner Elon Musk’s attempt to get to the bottom of the censorship that was taking place on the platform. Internal company files show employees, not algorithms, built blacklists and filtered content without a user’s knowledge.