Trump accuses Twitter of targeting Republicans, offers no evidencehttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-trump-twitter/trump-accuses-twitter-of-targeting-republicans-offers-no-evidence-idUSKBN1KG1JYQuote
“Twitter ‘SHADOW BANNING’ prominent Republicans. Not good. We will look into this discriminatory and illegal practice at once!” the Republican president wrote in a Twitter post.
The practice involves limiting the visibility of a user in search results, specifically in the auto-populated dropdown search box on Twitter.
Trump’s comments followed a Vice news report on Wednesday that Republican National Committee Chairwoman Ronna McDaniel and other Republicans including Donald Trump Jr’s spokesman were being “shadow banned.”
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“We are aware that some accounts are not automatically populating in our search box, and we’re shipping a change to address this,” the spokesperson said in a statement.” Twitter said the technology used is based on user behavior not political views.
Evidence or not it seems Twitter is making changes.
During the last 5 years or so, I've noticed some changes in all search engines. They seem to "lean" in a direction rather than being totally unbiased.
For me it was on Google where I first noticed it. I don't do Twitter or Facebook etc., so I would have no way of noticing it there.
But I have noticed a certain bias in Google searches. Like when I search for a current news item, it gives me results NOT based on date, when I specifically included date in the search.
So I guess I can see lesser search engines playing the bias game as well. I don't like it, but I believe it happens.