In what appears to be new ranking behavior, Gizmodo has identified several prominent far-right accounts now buried by Twitter's search feature.
The accounts—which belong to figures like Unite The Right organizer Jason Kessler and white nationalist Richard Spencer—no longer appear in the social platform's dropdown results, when searching either for their display names or @ handles.
"Search all" on desktop, and sorting by "People" after a search on mobile still generate the expected results, but Twitter seems to intend to reduce the ease with which these personalities can grow their followings. The move follows Twitter's plans to limit the reach of "troll-like behavior," announced in May.
https://gizmodo.com/twitter-may-be-demoting-controversial-accounts-in-searc-1827788070
(Score: 2) by shortscreen on Tuesday July 24 2018, @09:13PM
That's pretty much it.
When alt-media or activist types (right or left) post their stuff all over free services run by giant corporations, and act surprised about not being well-received by said corps, I gotta wonder if it's part of their PR strategy or they're just a little dim like the people who post on FB about their own criminal exploits.
But then, the Green party website's payment processor made you agree to forced arbitration and emails from groups for online privacy are full of tracking links. Compooters iz haard.