Trump slams Twitter for shadow banning Republicans
Thursday - July 26, 2018 7:18 pm ,
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Trump slams Twitter for shadow banning Republicans
Washington July 26 (IANS) US President Donald Trump on Thursday slammed Twitter for "shadow banning" some Republicans in search results on the micro-blogging platform.
"SHADOW BANNING" prominent Republicans. Not good. We will look into this discriminatory and illegal practice at once! Many complaints " Trump tweeted.
The tweet came a day after Vice News reported that Republican Party chair Ronna McDaniel several conservative Republican congressmen and Donald Trump Jr. s spokesperson stopped showing up in Twitter s auto-populated drop-down search box.
"Twitter is limiting the visibility of prominent Republicans in search results - a technique known as "shadow banning" - in what it says is a side effect of its attempts to improve the quality of discourse on the platform " the report said.
A Twitter spokesperson told Vice: "We are aware that some accounts are not automatically populating in our search box and shipping a change to address this".
After Trump s tweet Twitter shares slipped 3.2 per cent to $42.79 in early trading Fortune reported.
Trump has 53.3 million followers on the micro-blogging platform.
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"SHADOW BANNING" prominent Republicans. Not good. We will look into this discriminatory and illegal practice at once! Many complaints " Trump tweeted.
The tweet came a day after Vice News reported that Republican Party chair Ronna McDaniel several conservative Republican congressmen and Donald Trump Jr. s spokesperson stopped showing up in Twitter s auto-populated drop-down search box.
"Twitter is limiting the visibility of prominent Republicans in search results - a technique known as "shadow banning" - in what it says is a side effect of its attempts to improve the quality of discourse on the platform " the report said.
A Twitter spokesperson told Vice: "We are aware that some accounts are not automatically populating in our search box and shipping a change to address this".
After Trump s tweet Twitter shares slipped 3.2 per cent to $42.79 in early trading Fortune reported.
Trump has 53.3 million followers on the micro-blogging platform.
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