Elon Musk says Twitter will tell users if they’ve been ‘shadowbanned’


Musk said the company will begin telling users if their posts have been suppressed and give them an avenue to appeal. — Reuters

Twitter Inc owner Elon Musk, continuing a shake-up of the platform he acquired in October for US$44bil (RM193.54bil), said the company will begin telling users if their posts have been suppressed and give them an avenue to appeal.

The announcement followed a Twitter thread by journalist Bari Weiss, who has been granted access to company documents, saying that conservative commentators had their tweets downplayed by employees – a process known as “shadowbanning”. She and writer Matt Taibbi have been publishing findings from the trove of documents in a series they have called The Twitter Files – with Musk cheering them on.

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