Elon Musk Reveals Secret Twitter Labels That Caused Conservatives to Be Shadowbanned

Thursday conservative commentator Dave Rubin According to reports, he spent the past two weeks in San Francisco talking to Twitter’s headquarters. engineers, product managers, and Elon Musk We learned that the team is still “have more questions than answers” A batch of around “secret” Use of labels shadowban Conservatives are not satisfied with the revelations of the Twitter Files.

Rubin tweeted “Accounts aren’t just hit with labels that are obvious to insiders. They now found more ‘secret’ labels which are causing shadowbans. My account was hit with all three; ‘Recent abuse strike,’ ‘Recent misinformation strike’, ‘Recent suspension strike.'”

“It’s unclear so far what these strikes actually do, but for sure they suppress views and recommendations, they are trying to figure out to what extent. Many of my tweets were also innocuous and labelled NSFW (not safe to advertise), which can affect visibility in the timeline.

“Also, there’s an entire KeyWord database so that machine learning makes sure not to promote violence, porn etc., but it’s a mess of overreaching words. Literally the word ‘gay’ was on the KeyWord list which would make you not advertiser friendly and harm the tweet in the algo,” Rubin tweeted.

Rubin was established in July 2022. was suspended Twitter: Jordan Peterson defends Elliot Page tweet.

“Backing up for a sec, they found the ‘recent suspension strike’ on my account most interesting because it was fro July 2022, when I was suspended for calling out @jordanbpeterson’s unjust suspension. So though suspension was reversed the action on the account remained,” Rubin tweeted.

December 8 Bari Weiss Tweet round 2 of the Twitter files This confirmed that the leadership of the social media platform created blacklists and participated shadowbanning for many years under Vijaya Gadde’s watch, who was also the former lead counsel of Twitter and head of Twitter Trust and Safety. Yoel Roth.

Shadowbanning was a practice that used to be part of the Twitter management. Charlie Kirk, founder of Turning Point USA, was tagged with a “Do Not Amplify” tag. Dan Bongino, Talk Show Host, was tagged with the following: “Search Blacklist” Tag which also had a suppressive effect.

Rubin said: “Elon was bringing people in and out constantly and seems to be aware of pretty much every issue. He thinks maybe the entire code has to be torn down and start from scratch. At the end last night he said that the whole situation is ‘a flaming dumpster rolling down the street.'”

“So I assure you they are aware of the problems and Elon and engineers are there all night trying to untie this crazy knot. Some changes they’ve made, like the ‘For You’ tab, have confused people and hurt engagement for accounts who have gotten the NSFA label without knowing,” Rubin added.

Musk commented on Rubin’s tweets, and said: “Accurate thread.”

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