Twitter asserted unequivocally back in 2018 that they did not shadow ban anyone:
But today the latest traunch of internal Twitter documents was released (on Twitter—a condition Musk laid out for initial disclosure) by Bari Weiss. And it reveals Twitter to have brazenly lied:
Read the whole thing, but here are a couple highlights:
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