Twitter is trying to create programs that ban specific types of speech:
Steven Pierre, Twitter engineer explains âshadow banning,â says âitâs going to ban a way of talkingâ Former Twitter software engineer Abhinav Vadrevu on shadow banning: âthey just think that no one is engaging with their content, when in reality, no one is seeing itâ Former Twitter Content Review Agent Mo Norai explains banning process: âif it was a pro-Trump thing and Iâm anti-Trump⊠I banned his whole account⊠itâs at your discretionâ When asked if banning process was an unwritten rule, Norai adds âVery. A lot of unwritten rules⊠It was never written it was more saidâ Olinda Hassan, Policy Manager for Twitter Trust and Safety explains, âweâre trying to âdown rankâ⊠shitty people to not show up,â âweâre working [that] on right nowâ âShadow banningâ to be used to stealthily target political views- former Twitter engineer says, âthatâs a thingâ Censorship of certain political viewpoints to be automated via âmachine learningâ according to Twitter software engineer Parnay Singh, Twitter Direct Messaging Engineer, on machine learning algorithms, âyou have like five thousand keywords to describe a redneckâŠâ âthe majority of it are for Republicansâ
(San Francisco) In the latest undercover Project Veritas video investigation, current and former Twitter employees are on camera explaining steps the social media giant is taking to censor political content that they donât like.
This video release follows the first undercover Twitter exposĂ© Project Veritas released on January 10th which showed Twitter Senior Network Security Engineer Clay Haynes saying that Twitter is âmore than happy to help the Department of Justice with their little [President Donald Trump] investigation.â Twitter responded to the video with a statement shortly after that release, stating âthe individual depicted in this video was speaking in a personal capacity and does not represent of speak for Twitter.â The video released by Project Veritas today features eight employees, and a Project Veritas spokesman said there are more videos featuring additional employees coming.
On January 3rd 2018 at a San Francisco restaurant, Abhinov Vadrevu, a former Twitter Software Engineer explains a strategy, called âshadow banning,â that to his knowledge, Twitter has employed:
âOne strategy is to shadow ban so you have ultimate control. The idea of a shadow ban is that you ban someone but they donât know theyâve been banned, because they keep posting and no one sees their content. So they just think that no one is engaging with their content, when in reality, no one is seeing it.â
Steven Pierre, Twitter engineer explains âshadow banning,â says âitâs going to ban a way of talkingâ Former Twitter software engineer Abhinav Vadrevu on shadow banning: âthey just think that no one is engaging with their content, when in reality, no one is seeing itâ Former Twitter Content Review Agent Mo Norai explains banning process: âif it was a pro-Trump thing and Iâm anti-Trump⊠I banned his whole account⊠itâs at your discretionâ When asked if banning process was an unwritten rule, Norai adds âVery. A lot of unwritten rules⊠It was never written it was more saidâ Olinda Hassan, Policy Manager for Twitter Trust and Safety explains, âweâre trying to âdown rankâ⊠shitty people to not show up,â âweâre working [that] on right nowâ âShadow banningâ to be used to stealthily target political views- former Twitter engineer says, âthatâs a thingâ Censorship of certain political viewpoints to be automated via âmachine learningâ according to Twitter software engineer Parnay Singh, Twitter Direct Messaging Engineer, on machine learning algorithms, âyou have like five thousand keywords to describe a redneckâŠâ âthe majority of it are for Republicansâ
(San Francisco) In the latest undercover Project Veritas video investigation, current and former Twitter employees are on camera explaining steps the social media giant is taking to censor political content that they donât like.
This video release follows the first undercover Twitter exposĂ© Project Veritas released on January 10th which showed Twitter Senior Network Security Engineer Clay Haynes saying that Twitter is âmore than happy to help the Department of Justice with their little [President Donald Trump] investigation.â Twitter responded to the video with a statement shortly after that release, stating âthe individual depicted in this video was speaking in a personal capacity and does not represent of speak for Twitter.â The video released by Project Veritas today features eight employees, and a Project Veritas spokesman said there are more videos featuring additional employees coming.
On January 3rd 2018 at a San Francisco restaurant, Abhinov Vadrevu, a former Twitter Software Engineer explains a strategy, called âshadow banning,â that to his knowledge, Twitter has employed:
âOne strategy is to shadow ban so you have ultimate control. The idea of a shadow ban is that you ban someone but they donât know theyâve been banned, because they keep posting and no one sees their content. So they just think that no one is engaging with their content, when in reality, no one is seeing it.â