Twitter Files Part 2

Twitter Files Part 2

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yZZjZ-LiVrI

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as promised I bring you the Twitter
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files part too Twitter's secret
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blacklists this one was tweeted out by
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Barry Weiss of a New Media company
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called The Free Press and shared by Elon
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Musk so let's dive in a new hashtag
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Twitter files investigation reveals that
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teams of Twitter employees build
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blacklists prevent disfavored tweets
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from trending and actively limit the
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visibility of entire accounts or even
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trending topics all in secret without
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informing users Twitter once had a
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mission to give everyone the power to
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create and share ideas and information
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instantly without barriers along the way
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barriers nevertheless were erected take
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for example Stanford's Dr J bhattachara
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who argued that covid lockdowns would
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harm children Twitter secretly placed
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them on a Trends blacklist which
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prevented his tweets from trending or
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consider the popular right-wing talk
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show host Dan bongino who at one point
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was slapped with a search Blacklist
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Twitter set the account of conservative
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activist Charlie Kirk to do not amplify
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Twitter denied that it does such things
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in 2018 Twitter's Vijaya Gotti then the
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head of legal policy and trust and
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Kayvon Vape Kapoor head of products said
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we do not Shadow ban they added and we
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certainly don't Shadow ban based on
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political viewpoints or ideology
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what many people call Shadow Banning
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Twitter Executives and employees call
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visibility filtering or VF multiple
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high-level sources confirmed its meaning
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think about visibility filtering as
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being a way of us to suppress what
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people see to different levels it's a
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very powerful tool when senior Twitter
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employees Hold Us VF refers to Twitter's
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control over user visibility it used VF
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to block searches of individual users to
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limit the scope of a particular tweet's
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discoverability to block users posts
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from ever appearing on the trending page
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and from inclusion in hashtag searches
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all without users knowledge we control
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visibility quite a bit and we control
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the amplification of your content quite
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a bit and normal people do not know how
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much we do on Twitter engineer told us
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two additional Twitter employees
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confirmed the group that decided whether
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to limit the reach of certain users was
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the Strategic response team global
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escalation team or SRT g-e-t it often
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handled up to 200 cases a day but there
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existed a level Beyond official
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ticketing beyond the rank and file
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moderators following the company's
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policy on paper that is the site
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Integrity policy policy escalation
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support known as
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s-i-p-p-e-s this secret group included
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head of legal policy and Trust
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vijayagari the global head of trust and
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safety Joel Roth subsequent CEOs Jack
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Dorsey and parag Agarwal and others this
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is where the biggest most politically
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sensitive decisions got made think High
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follower count controversial and other
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Twitter employee told us for these there
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wouldn't be no ticket or anything one of
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the accounts that Rose to this level of
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scrutiny was lives of tick tock an
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account that was on the trends Blacklist
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and was designated as do not take action
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on user without consulting with sipp PES
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the account which Chaya reichik began in
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November of 2020 and now boasts over 1.4
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million followers was subjected to six
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suspensions in 2022 alone right chick
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says each time reichik was blocks from
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posting for as long as a week Twitter
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repeatedly informed rychick that she had
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been suspended for violating Twitter's
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policy against hateful conduct but in an
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internal sippps Memo from October of
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2022 after her seventh suspension the
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committee acknowledged that LTT has not
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directly engaged in the behavior
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violative of the hateful conduct policy
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the committee Justified her suspensions
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internally by claiming her posts
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encouraged online harassment of
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hospitals and medical providers by
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insinuating that gender affirming Health
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Care is equivalent to child abroad abuse
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or grooming compare this to what
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happened when rychic herself was doxed
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on November 21st 2022 a photo of her
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home with her address was posted in a
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tweet that garnered more than ten
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thousand likes when reichek told Twitter
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that her address had been disseminated
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she says Twitter support responded with
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this message we reviewed the reported
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content and didn't find it to be in
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violation of the Twitter rules no action
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was taken the doc boxing tweet is still
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up in internal slack messages Twitter
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employees spoke of using technicalities
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to restrict the visibility of tweets and
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subjects here's Joel Roth Twitter's then
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Global head of trust and safety in a
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direct message to a colleague in early
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2021 where he States a lot of times SI
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has used technicality spam enforcements
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as a way to solve a problem created by
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safety under enforcing their policies
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which again isn't a problem per se but
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it keeps us from addressing the root
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cause of the issue which is that our
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safety policies need some attention
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six days later in a direct message with
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an employee of the health misinformation
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privacy and identity research team Roth
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requested more research to support
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expanding non-removal policy
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interventions like disabling engagements
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and deamplification slash visibility
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filtering Roth wrote the hypothesis
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underlying much of what we've
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implemented is that if of exposure to
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misinformation directly causes harm we
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should be you should use remediations
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that reduce exposure and limiting the
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spread or virality of content is a good
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way to do that he added we got Jack on
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board with implementing this for civic
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Integrity in the near term but we're
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going to need to make a more robust case
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to get this into our repertoire of
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policy remediations especially for other
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policy domains Barry continues on to say
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that there's a lot more to come which
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will always be shared via Twitter first
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and then on thefp.com I personally will
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continue to share with you as
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developments continue but the many of us
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who've been keeping up and personally
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affected with the censorship and
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discriminatory social media practice of
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these platforms are not surprised by
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these Revelations but I will leave you
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with these questions to ponder
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if social media platforms working with
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the federal government have this much
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power and this much influence how much
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of our reality do they really control
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how much of what we think or believe to
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be true is based on what they tell us
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when is it too much when do we lose our
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ability for not just Free Speech but
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free thought in the wrong hands how
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dangerous can this be thanks for
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listening
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foreign