Journalist Bari Weiss published the second part of the Twitter Files, the first part of which had a great impact, by sharing a series of tweets from his Twitter account. Weiss, “Title: Twitter files, part two. Twitter’s secret blacklists.” He shared the allegations in question. Here are the allegations shared by Weiss…
“HIDDEN BLACK LISTS”
“A new Twitter file search has revealed that teams of Twitter employees are creating blacklists, preventing unpopular tweets from trending, and actively limiting the visibility of all accounts and even trending topics. All of this was done in secret, without informing users,” Weiss said. said.
Weiss, former Twitter administration’s Stanford University’s Dr. He also shared a screenshot that he claims demonstrates this censorship, claiming that Jay Bhattacharya has censored his view that Covid-19 quarantines will adversely affect children’s health. In addition, other names were subjected to similar ‘incognito filtering’ according to the allegations and other screenshots they shared.
“TWITTER LIED”
Weiss said Twitter denied doing such things and cited Twitter’s statement in 2018 by Vijaya Gadde (the platform’s then Head of Legal Policy and Trust) and Kayvon Beykpour, Head of Product, that “We don’t shadow accounts based on political perspectives or ideology.”
Weiss suggested that what many call “shadow banning” is what Twitter administrators and staff call “Visibility Filtering” or “VF.” Twitter used VF to block individual users’ searches, Weiss claims.
AVERAGE 200 “CASES” PER DAY
Again, Weiss claims, the group that decided whether to limit access to certain users was the Strategic Response Team (Global Escalation Team) or SRT-GET, and they handled an average of 200 “cases” per day.
All of the claims shared by Weiss can be read on the official Twitter account.
THREAD: THE TWITTER FILES PART TWO.
TWITTER’S SECRET BLACKLISTS.
— Bari Weiss (@bariweiss) December 9, 2022
THE FIRST CHAPTER WAS ABOUT HOW BIDEN CENTRED THE POSTINGS OF HIS SON
In the first of the Twitter Files, there were documents regarding the claim that the former administration of the company had censored the news about Biden’s son Hunter Biden at the request of US President Joe Biden’s team before the 2020 presidential election. The first episode of Twitter Files had great repercussions, especially in the USA.