Former Twitter software engineer, Abhinav Vadrevu on - shadow banning: "They just think that Posted: Jan 12th, 2018 - 9:40 am In Reply to: How do you know that? Why is it interesting? - nm
no one is engaging with their content, when in reality, no one is seeing it.”
Former Twitter Content Review Agent Mo Norai explains banning process: “if it was a pro-Trump thing and I’m anti-Trump… I banned his whole account… it’s at your discretion.”
“Shadow banning” to be used to stealthily target political views- former Twitter engineer says, “that’s a thing.”
Parnay Singh, Twitter Direct Messaging Engineer, on machine learning algorithms, “you have like five thousand keywords to describe a redneck…” “the majority of it are for Republicans.”
“One strategy is to shadow ban so you have ultimate control. The idea of a shadow ban is that you ban someone but they don’t know they’ve 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.”
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