It's crickets from Rep. Mike Doyle, D-Penn., who previously denied that Twitter was shadow-banning conservatives, which Bari Weiss reported was the case in Elon Musk's 'Twitter Files.'
Howie Kurtz and Joe Concha react to the 'Twitter Files' revealing the social media company shadow-banned conservatives on 'The Story.'that were reported by journalist Bari Weiss after he called Twitter's censorship efforts towards conservatives"a load of crap.", Doyle attempted to defend the tech giant by suggesting Twitter was an"equal opportunity shadow banner" and that it was based on algorithms versus political bias.
"So just for the record, since you've been singled out as a social media platform before this committee, Twitter undertook no behavior to selectively censor conservative Republicans or conservative voices on your platform. Is that correct?" the Democrat sad Good," Doyle replied.
In a separate exchange with Rep. Steve Scalise, R-La., Dorsey insisted the algorithm that led to the shadow-banning of multiple Republican lawmakers"was not written with that intention." "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 began her thread Thursday.
Weiss revealed that"shadow-banning," a term described to secretly suppressing the presence of Twitter users without their knowledge, was referred to by Twitter executives and employees as"Visibility Filtering" or"VF."
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