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Twitter Shadowbans Republican Frontrunner

posted by martyb on Wednesday April 27 2016, @01:56AM   Printer-friendly
from the is-a-Trump-tweet-called-a-Treet? dept.

The Mighty Buzzard writes:

You were warned. Now it begins.

Since the implementation of Twitter's new algorithmic timeline back in February of this year, conservatives, libertarians and anti-establishment dissidents alike have been waiting for the social media platform to interfere in the current U.S. election cycle. Now it seems that there is clear evidence of Twitter censoring the current Republican front-runner, Donald Trump.

A tweet sent from Trump's account at 3:04 PM EDT yesterday is not visible from his timeline, even when showing "Tweets and replies." That message included a video wherein Trump declared that "the establishment and special interests are absolutely killing our country."At the time of this writing, the tweet is still publicly accessible via a direct link and thus has not been deleted either by Twitter or by someone operating on the Trump account.

This archive.is link has a copy of the timeline taken before this article was published which clearly shows the tweet not appearing where it should be — between a tweet sent at 12:10 PM EDT and one sent at 3:27 PM EDT; it is possible that the tweet may be reintroduced to the timeline in order to hide the manipulation.

Today it's one Trump tweet, tomorrow it will be you.

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  • (Score: 4, Disagree) by Gravis on Wednesday April 27 2016, @03:57AM

    by Gravis (4596) on Wednesday April 27 2016, @03:57AM (#337759)

    Today it's one Drumpf tweet, tomorrow it will be you.

    Drumpf violated Twitter's ToS a LONG time ago and his account should be shut down completely. Anyone else oozing the bile in his Twitter feed would have already been kicked off Twitter. Twitter is a private service, not a public service and not intended to be a podium for spewing vitriol. Saying otherwise just proves you are in denial.

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  • (Score: 1, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday April 27 2016, @05:22AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday April 27 2016, @05:22AM (#337791)

    Anyone else oozing the bile in his Twitter feed would have already been kicked off Twitter.

    No, that's a bullshit double standard. History proves that Twitter tolerates and even trends genocidal rants from thousands of SJWs. [youtube.com]

    Twitter thus does appear to be a podium for spewing vitriol. Why don't you link me to some examples where Trump says something you don't like. Is it worse than the video I linked showing the vitriol of thousands of SJWs calling for genocide and murder?

    • (Score: 2) by tangomargarine on Wednesday April 27 2016, @01:48PM

      by tangomargarine (667) on Wednesday April 27 2016, @01:48PM (#337929)

      Genocidal? Do you have a citation that isn't a video?

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