As Twitchy told you, Twitter offered up a less-than-half-a**ed explanation for its shady “shadow banning” of conservative accounts.
"We don't shadowban.. we just hide people's tweets from search, the general feed, and.. well, everywhere except their profile page."
(just barely a paraphrasing..) https://t.co/6pJIP88egE
— Danger Casey (@CaseySoftware) July 27, 2018
Plenty of conservatives are calling B.S. on that. But there’s one notable non-conservative who’s just as fed up: Glenn Greenwald. He’s not buying Twitter’s account for a second:
This is a bizarre and incredibly disingenuous statement from @Twitter. What's the point of following someone if Twitter blocks their tweets from appearing in your time-line? Maybe that's not technically "shadow-banning" but it's heavy-handed manipulation https://t.co/OaHf6qQplF pic.twitter.com/QzyJSajY5S
— Glenn Greenwald (@ggreenwald) July 27, 2018
The more I think about this new @Twitter explanation, the more obnoxious it becomes. I decide to follow someone to see their tweets in my time-line. Twitter (silently) decides for me it's best if I don't see them, unless I go to their page (making the following feature pointless)
— Glenn Greenwald (@ggreenwald) July 27, 2018
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And: Twitter – as it silently and with no transparency blocks me from seeing the tweets in my time-line of people I decide to follow – sanctimoniously denies it's "shadow-banning." Begging Silicon Valley execs to control political content on massive platforms is a huge mistake.
— Glenn Greenwald (@ggreenwald) July 27, 2018
Credit where it’s due: Greenwald’s not letting ideological disagreements get in the way of intellectual honesty.