twitter thread. what she has revealed so far confirms what many suspected but none knew for certain which is that twitter routinely censored prominent critics of the biden administration, did so in secret without telling anyone and with no factual justification whatsoever. this is known as shadow banning. twitter did it all the time. publicly they denied doing it. people who were being shadowed ban suspected something was up but didn t know. the twitter legal officer, a woman who was rewarded by the widen administration for their work on their behalf, say we do not shadow ban and we don t shadow ban based on political viewpoints or ideologies. that s what she said and it was a lie and the documents bari weiss is posting prove that it was a lie. one of twitter s targets for shadow banning was a stanford professor, a physician, ph.d.. one of the most impressive
placed him on a trends blacklist. that means your tweets can t trend and if they can t defend p trend that means they are censoring you and your wider message can t get out you mentioned some conservative voices, like charlie kirk, his twitter account was hit with do not amplify. that also means there is no way for charlie kirk or whatever he treats to trend and he s made this a public fight. he has noticed this, he has brought this out, and he has toll everybody that this is happening. of course, twitter would say all the time, no, because we don t do that. we can certainly expect more conservatives to appear on the list, considering the evidence has pointed in that direction for years. but in 2018, the head of legal policy, as you say, stated we don t shadow ban. here s the big thing. the drop we understand, we hope, will have some moral information on what exactly the f.b.i. s role was in warning twitter
from stanford was secretly placed on the transblacklist after he argued that covid lockdowns would harm children and meanwhile our very own dan bongino, was limited by who could search for his profile or tweets. twitter also plackets turning points founder charlie kirk s tweets from being amplified. apparently twitter handled up to 200 of these censorship cases each and every day but remember, as weiss points out twitter repeatedly denied the use of shadow banning. twitter was lying. they lied over and over again. i interviewed at one point jack dorsey. he told me specifically, no, we don t shadow ban. we re also learning tonight that twitter formed a secret group that featured the company s highest ranking executives that would make decisions in private without much of a paper trail to censor or ban high-profile conservative accounts.
been clearly shadow banned. it will also show you the reason to believe why and how to appeal. just a reminder, substack journalist matt taibbi who is a terrific read will have the latest installment of the twitter files coming up, so i guess two words for that are stay tuned, guys. steve: indeed. kevin, thank you very much. and kevin made a great point and bari weiss laid it out so easy for us to see in like 22 different tweets you can see it all over. and what she makes is very clear is when and kevin started his report by saying, you know, did twitter lie to congressional people who said hey, do you shadow ban? twitter said no, we don t shadow ban. they didn t shadow ban. they did vf instead. visibility filtering. that was able to keep a whole bunch of different people who they did not like. the secret brain trust if we could put that graphic up again about twitter s secret brain trust, those four people, you had the regular content
their way of getting around saying shadow banning. because you know, from the twitter files last night we learned they used this tool to actively suppress not just accounts but ideas from trending, and you had dan, charlie, the files revealed had been visibly filtered. but directly contradicts how previous management always maintained no shadow banning happened. i want to share a tweet from founder jack dorsey, dug back to 2018 and he said this. we don t shadow ban, and we certainly don t shadow ban based on political viewpoints. what last night s drop reveals, though, twitter was deciding what important discussions were allowed wide reach. these decisions were happening at the highest level. the platform actually having a secret council, including dorsey. one filtered individuals was a