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The liberal media love to pretend that their news cycles are dictated entirely by President Trump’s Twitter feed. It’s their number one excuse when average Americans complain they’re not covering the important things. But oh how quickly their fascination with his account fades when he mentions something they rather keep hidden. For Thursday’s evening broadcasts of ABC, CBS, and NBC it was Twitter allegedly “shadow banning” conservative accounts.
Where the broadcast networks failed, Fox News Channel’s Special Report dove right in. “Today, the President, whose Twitter account helped get him elected, wrote: ‘Twitter ‘shadow banning’ prominent Republicans, not good. We will look into this discriminatory and illegal practice at once. Many complaints,’” reported correspondent Peter Doocy.
The term “shadow ban” refers to the alleged practice of keeping an account from being easily searched for or generally viewed. Shadow banning was supposedly done to stem the spread of certain ideas and thoughts (in this case conservative ones) without the negative publicity of outright disabling and purging accounts on a massive scale.
“Congressman Matt Gaetz is one of the Republicans whose Twitter handle was hidden for months from some curious users searching for him. Type his name, and he didn't pop up,” Doocy noted. “The conservative shadow ban appears to have been fixed this morning for the first time since May, when Twitter announced it would crackdown on trolls contributing to an unhealthy of dialogue.”
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