President Donald Trump accused Twitter Inc. Thursday of restricting the visibility of US Republicans without providing evidence, and the greedy user of the social media platform promised to investigate.
Trump accused the company of targeting his Republican compatriots with a practice dubbed "shadow ban", limiting the visibility of a Twitter user, including in the self-populated drop-down search box of the platform. Twitter has denied "the ban on the shadow" to anyone.
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"Twitter" SHADOW BANNING's "prominent Republicans." Not good. "We'll examine this discriminatory and illegal practice at once!" Trump wrote in a Twitter post.
It was not clear if Trump was planning to ask federal regulators to investigate. The White House did not respond to a request for comment
Twitter did not comment directly on Trump's tweet but said in a statement that he was not "banning" the news. shadow".
"We are aware that some accounts are not automatically filled In our search box, we send a change to solve this problem."
Twitter adds that the technology used is based on user behavior, and not on political opinions
Twitter user, offering opinions, announcing policies and often attacking opponents But some Trump supporters have been saying for months that Republican and Conservative candidates are being smothered on social networks.
Trump's tweet follows a report by vice president of the Republican National Committee Ronna McDaniel and other Republicans including Donald Trump Jr. The story continues under the ad
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"The idea that social media companies would remove some political views should co recognize all Americans. Twitter wrote public responses to what's really going on, "writes McDaniel on Twitter
Twitter instituted a policy change on July 12 to increase the credibility of the service and reduce the alleged fraud. 100 most popular users about 2 percent of their subscribers, on average, according to the social media data company Keyhole
The change, former example, cost former Democratic president Barack Obama 2 million followers on morning after the change and the singers Katy Perry and Justin Bieber each lost $ 3 million, reported the Washington Post, quoting the company's Twitter Analytics Counter. The report states that Trump's account lost more than 200,000 of its 53 million followers.
US Republican Representative Matt Gaetz blamed changes in Twitter's policies for a decline in his next. several accounts maintained by MP Gaetz. We are investigating the depths and the impact of these serious charges, "said his office in a statement.
At a hearing last week before the House of Commons Judiciary Committee, Facebook, Google, Alphabet and Twitter said they did not discriminate against the content for political reasons.
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Twitter's chief strategist, Nick Pickles, testified that the company do not discriminate against conservatives and work to make neutral decisions. "Our goal is to serve the conversation, not to make value judgments about personal beliefs," said Pickles.
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