Fox Business Network anchor Maria Bartiromo asked if she was being “shadow-banned” on Twitter — i.e., when a social media platform partially bans a user by limiting how accessible their content is to others — because one of tweets defending President Donald Trump did not go viral.
Bartiromo lobbed the unfounded accusation against Twitter on today’s airing of Mornings with Maria on Fox Business:
“I tweeted out a clip from CNN of James Clapper basically admitting that President Obama was the one that directed all the intelligence agencies at the end of 2016 to launch an investigation into President Trump, and I tweeted that out because there’s James Clapper right on CNN telling Anderson Cooper saying, ‘Yes, we would not have done this had it not been for President Obama.’ So I tweeted it out, it got no life, it got no life — and I know that’s something that my followers and viewers care about, big time. It got no life, so I’m just wondering, was I shadow-banned?”
The supposed issue of Twitter shadow banning conservative voices has been a contentious debate of late, as many on the right have accused the site’s CEO Jack Dorsey of using the platform to silence those with whom he disagrees.
Even President Donald Trump jumped into the controversy, tweeting last month, “Twitter ‘SHADOW BANNING’ prominent Republicans. Not good. We will look into this discriminatory and illegal practice at once! Many complaints.”
There is no real evidence however that Twitter is actually shadow banning conservatives in particular.
In the spring of this year, Twitter did note that “people contributing to the healthy conversation will be more visible in conversations and search,” while those who violate Twitter’s rules or act in a troll-like capacity will presumably be less visible. But the site has insisted they are targeting conservatives.
Some on the right have been impacted by this Twitter policy, but as a HuffPost reporter found as an example, so has the leftist podcast Chapo Trap House and its host Will Menaker
https://www.mediaite.com/tv/maria-b...g-her-after-anti-obama-tweet-doesnt-go-viral/
This is your brain on conservatism, never go full retard
"Shadow-banning"
"Antifa"
"Random crimes by brown people"
Conservative entertainment lives in a completely alternate reality. It's like watching the mirror universe in Star Trek. There is just nothing else left to sell.
Bartiromo lobbed the unfounded accusation against Twitter on today’s airing of Mornings with Maria on Fox Business:
“I tweeted out a clip from CNN of James Clapper basically admitting that President Obama was the one that directed all the intelligence agencies at the end of 2016 to launch an investigation into President Trump, and I tweeted that out because there’s James Clapper right on CNN telling Anderson Cooper saying, ‘Yes, we would not have done this had it not been for President Obama.’ So I tweeted it out, it got no life, it got no life — and I know that’s something that my followers and viewers care about, big time. It got no life, so I’m just wondering, was I shadow-banned?”
The supposed issue of Twitter shadow banning conservative voices has been a contentious debate of late, as many on the right have accused the site’s CEO Jack Dorsey of using the platform to silence those with whom he disagrees.
Even President Donald Trump jumped into the controversy, tweeting last month, “Twitter ‘SHADOW BANNING’ prominent Republicans. Not good. We will look into this discriminatory and illegal practice at once! Many complaints.”
There is no real evidence however that Twitter is actually shadow banning conservatives in particular.
In the spring of this year, Twitter did note that “people contributing to the healthy conversation will be more visible in conversations and search,” while those who violate Twitter’s rules or act in a troll-like capacity will presumably be less visible. But the site has insisted they are targeting conservatives.
Some on the right have been impacted by this Twitter policy, but as a HuffPost reporter found as an example, so has the leftist podcast Chapo Trap House and its host Will Menaker
https://www.mediaite.com/tv/maria-b...g-her-after-anti-obama-tweet-doesnt-go-viral/
This is your brain on conservatism, never go full retard
"Shadow-banning"
"Antifa"
"Random crimes by brown people"
Conservative entertainment lives in a completely alternate reality. It's like watching the mirror universe in Star Trek. There is just nothing else left to sell.