7. What many people call “shadow banning,” Twitter executives and employees call “Visibility Filtering” or “VF.” Multiple high-level sources confirmed its meaning.
8. “Think about visibility filtering as being a way for us to suppress what people see to different levels. It’s a very powerful tool,” one senior Twitter employee told us.
9. “VF” refers to Twitter’s control over user visibility. It used VF to block searches of individual users; to limit the scope of a particular tweet’s discoverability; to block select users’ posts from ever appearing on the “trending” page; and from inclusion in hashtag searches.
11. “We control visibility quite a bit. And we control the amplification of your content quite a bit. And normal people do not know how much we do,” one Twitter engineer told us. Two additional Twitter employees confirmed.
12. The group that decided whether to limit the reach of certain users was the Strategic Response Team - Global Escalation Team, or SRT-GET. It often handled up to 200 "cases" a day.
13. But there existed a level beyond official ticketing, beyond the rank-and-file moderators following the company’s policy on paper. That is the “Site Integrity Policy, Policy Escalation Support,” known as “SIP-PES.”
14. This secret group included Head of Legal, Policy, and Trust (Vijaya Gadde), the Global Head of Trust & Safety (Yoel Roth), subsequent CEOs Jack Dorsey and Parag Agrawal, and others.
15. This is where the biggest, most politically sensitive decisions got made. “Think high follower account, controversial,” another Twitter employee told us. For these “there would be no ticket or anything.”
16. One of the accounts that rose to this level of scrutiny was @libsoftiktok—an account that was on the “Trends Blacklist” and was designated as “Do Not Take Action on User Without Consulting With SIP-PES.”
@bariweiss @libsoftiktok Former head of censorship at Twitter was perhaps not entirely unbiased …
@elonmusk @bariweiss @libsoftiktok Translation: Twitter exists to serve the Democrat Party and to censor conservatives.
@elonmusk @bariweiss @libsoftiktok They'll all hide behind the absurd fact that they called it "visibility filtering" instead of "shadow banning."
@elonmusk @bariweiss @libsoftiktok If I am asked to describe Vijaya in one word, it will be "liar"
@elonmusk @RobertNorCal @bariweiss @libsoftiktok WE dOnT ShAdOwBaN
@elonmusk @bariweiss @libsoftiktok What your saying is that Nazis who speak loudly to kill minorities, the KKK who lynched blacks, rhetoric that inspires violence against minorities and Children's Hospitals is healthy conversations???? Of course you do because your children are safe while ours aren't.
@elonmusk @bariweiss @libsoftiktok If only someone could get to all Tesla internal documents and spill it out for all to see. Get to it @YourAnonNews