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posted by Fnord666 on Tuesday July 24 2018, @05:18PM   Printer-friendly
from the then-again,-maybe-not dept.

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


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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday July 24 2018, @09:36PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday July 24 2018, @09:36PM (#711948)

    It is amusing how stupid the "free speech or die" crowd is, they think spewing the most vile shit is the best way to fight against censorship. Sure thing guys, pour gas on the fire maybe it'll burn itself out quicker!

    Want to prevent the average person from saying "yeah, censor these fucks"? Then don't abuse systems for the trulz.