Republicans spar with twitter reps over shadow banning
House Republicans and Twitter officials spent a decent chunk of the hearing sparring over the correct definition of “shadow banning.” Ohio representative and Trump sycophant Jim Jordan was particularly interested in the issue, and demanded former Twitter Chief Legal Officer Vijaya Gadde explain the difference between shadow banning, which she claims Twitter does not engage in, and “visibility filtering.”
In her explanation, Gadde said Twitter will in fact take action to limit the reach and visibility of certain accounts that consistently violate the company’s rules. That sounds an awful lot like shadow banning, but Gadde claimed it wasn’t, in part, because Twitter explains its rules publicly. That explanation wasn’t received well by several lawmakers, including Colorado Representative Lauren Boebert, who claimed her own account had been shadow banned.
