드러난 트위터의 여론 조작 블랙 리스트

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엘론 머스크가 트위터를 인수한 이후로 그동안 트위터가 공화당과 보수 인사들의 트윗들이 확산되지 않도록 하고

코로나바이러스 백신의 부정적 효과를 연구 발표한 것들이 퍼지지 않도록 하며, 조 바이든 대통령의 아들 헌터 바이든의 비리와

여러가지 음행들의 사진들이 퍼지지 않도록 억압한 사실들이 드러나고 있습니다.

그들은 교묘한 방법으로 억압해왔고 미국 의회에서도 회장 잭 도시가 증언했는데 앞으로 그가 위증하였는지 여부도 논란이 될 것으로 보입니다.

이런 것을 미국의 주류 언론들은 그다지 크게 보도하지 않는데 영국의 데일리 메일이 보도하고 있습니다

Twitter's secret 'blacklist': Second tranche of bombshell internal files reveal conservatives were marked 'do not amplify' and COVID lockdown skeptics 'shadow banned' in a move staff called 'visibility filtering' to stop accounts and topics trending

• Journalists Matt Taibbi and Bari Weiss have been handed a trove of documents from Twitter, detailing why they censored the story of Hunter Biden's laptop
• Taibbi released the first tranche of the documents on Friday, and Weiss on Thursday followed up with a second series
• Weiss revealed that conservatives and lockdown skeptics were deliberately down-ranked by Twitter, to stop their accounts gaining prominence 
• Among those blacklisted were Fox News regular Dan Bongino and youth activist Charlie Kirk, plus Stanford CDC critic Dr Jay Bhattacharya
• Jack Dorsey and his head of legal, Vijaya Gadde, both denied that Twitter ever deliberately downgraded or 'shadow banned' any accounts 
• The documents from Taibbi showed panic among senior Twitter staff in October 2020 when The New Post reported on the contents of Hunter's computer

By HARRIET ALEXANDER FOR DAILYMAIL.COM

PUBLISHED: 19:40 EST, 8 December 2022 | UPDATED: 22:38 EST, 8 December 2022

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Twitter kept a 'secret blacklist' of topics and accounts to prevent them from trending, according to data obtained by journalist Bari Weiss - with up to 200 'cases' being dealt with a day by a special division within the company. 

Conservative commentators such as Dan Bongino and Charlie Kirk were deliberately put on a 'search blacklist' - in the case of Bongino - or tabbed 'do not amplify', in the case of Kirk. 

Kirk said he was angered by the findings, saying: 'They are treating my Twitter account with more censorship than the prime minister of Iran? Than Hamas?' Bongino said it was 'Soviet style bulls***.'

Those who questioned the prevailing COVID orthodoxy of lockdowns and mask mandates, such as Stanford's Dr Jay Bhattacharya, who argued that lockdowns harmed children, were also placed on a 'search blacklist'.

In October 2020, journalist Dave Rubin asked then-CEO Jack Dorsey: 'Do you shadowban based on political beliefs? Simple yes or no will do.'

Dorsey replied: 'No.' 

Vijaya Gadde, Twitter's head of legal, policy, and trust, also denied that Twitter operated such blacklists.

'We do not shadow ban,' she said in 2018, according to Weiss - speaking alongside Kayvon Beykpour, Twitter's head of product. 

They added: 'And we certainly don't shadow ban based on political viewpoints or ideology.' 

Weiss made the revelations on Thursday in the second tranche of what has been termed The Twitter Files. 

She reported that Twitter used what was termed 'visibility filtering' to downplay accounts they objected to, and had teams of people working to reduce the traction gained by individuals or their tweets. 

One senior Twitter insider called it 'a very powerful tool'.

The teams working to minimize certain accounts or topics were backed up by a top-level 'Site Integrity Policy, Policy Escalation Support' team - where the CEO and top legal advisors would decide sensitive cases of censorship. Jack Dorsey and his successor as CEO, Parag Agrawal, were on the team.

Top officials such as Yoel Roth, the global head of trust and safety, wrote in internal messages that he wanted more creative ways of censoring and muffling specific accounts and content.

Elon Musk, who bought Twitter in October for $44 billion, was gleeful about the revelations regarding the company he now owns - retweeting Weiss' thread, with a popcorn emoji.

Conservative commentators Dan Bongino (left) and Charlie Kirk (right) were censored by Twitter, according to Bari Weiss

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Dr Jay Bhattacharya, who argued that COVID lockdowns harmed children, was also placed on a 'search blacklist' by Twitter, according to Weiss

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Kirk told Tucker Carlson on Thursday night that the report confirmed his long-held suspicions, but said he was angry. 

He says he was averaging 115,000 retweets a day at their peak - questioning COVID lockdowns, for example.

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'I was called a conspiracy theorist, I was smeared,' Kirk told Carlson, adding that he complained and met Dorsey personally. Dorsey assured him that shadow banning was not happening.

Kirk said the social media company was censoring him because 'they saw what I had to say as a direct threat to the regime.'

He said: 'They're treating my twitter account with more scrutiny and censorship than the prime minister of Iran, than Hamas, than people who do actual terroristic type damage. 

'Now we evidence to show that's exactly why my Twitter account the last couple years has been down 95 percent in engagement.

'Were they told to do this by the federal government?' he asked, describing how he watched the Twitter change from a social media platform into a 'Democrat super PAC.'

He added: 'Apparently asking questions about the lockdown policy was a threat. Were they told to do this by Anthony Fauci, by the federal government?

'We may never know - but Twitter at its best was a place where heterodox ideas were able to spread. Twitter went out of its way to censor it and suffocate our account.' 

He said: 'I've been told forever, so weird that I can't find you on Twitter, your a verified account, your name's not usual, how come you don't come up?

'When I spoke about this on my show I was called a conspiracy theorist and a wacko. 

'My website has been banned by Google Ads; I was banned by YouTube for suggesting that cloth masks don't work, which is now scientifically proven.

'Now I find I am on a 'not safe for work' shadow ban list on Twitter, because I've committed the thought crime of being a conservative.' 

He added: 'Tell me again how we live in a free country.' 

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Twitter's 'secret blacklist of accounts and topics to stop trending'