Last week, independent journalist Matt Taibbi released Part One of Twitter Files in an expose that revealed the inside story behind the social media giant’s. 09.12.2022, Sputnik International
Former columnist of the New York Times Bari Weiss has published Part Two of the so-called Twitter Files related to filtering visibility of the platform’s content from users.Titling her post “Twitter’s Secret Blacklists,” Weiss wrote about a “secret” operation in which the social media giant limited the reach of certain accounts.The journalist mentioned “teams of Twitter employees” who purportedly “build blacklists, prevent disfavored tweets from trending, and actively limit the visibility of entire accounts or even trending topics—all in secret, without informing users.”She also shared screenshots of how an array of accounts was labeled internally so as to limit their reach on Twitter.
