Via Daily Caller:
A new undercover video from Project Veritas shows Twitter employees discussing new ways for the social media site to censor political speech that they dislike.
The video shows eight current or former Twitter employees explaining how they will employ “shadow banning” and algorithms to prevent political opponents from spreading their ideas on the platform.
“One strategy is to shadow ban so you have ultimate control,” said Abhinov Vadrevu, a former Twitter Software Engineer. “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.”
Twitter Direct Messaging Engineer Pranay Singh said the shadow ban algorithms could be engineered to specifically target right-leaning content.