In response to the latest Twitter Files, President Donald Trump claimed that the FBI and the Department of Justice colluded during the 2020 presidential election. He made the revelation on his Truth Social channel. He also talked about the reason why his account was suspended, and he said that everybody is waiting to see what the company's thinking was regarding the matter.
The latest version of the files was released by Bari Weiss on Thursday. He provided a detailed analysis of how Twitter targeted conservative users.
According to the journalist, a group of executives, including Jack Dorsey, the company's founder and CEO, and FMR's general counsel, Vijaya Gadde, placed their accounts on the so-called "trend blacklist." These individuals previously stated that no shadow-banning was happening.
In response to the journalist's question, Vijaya said that the company's goal is not to police ideology, but to police behavior that it believes is harassment. She also said that she would talk to her team about this issue.
Twitter has reportedly started to implement a "visibly filtering" process that targets certain accounts. This includes the accounts of Libs of TikTok, Charlie Kirk, and Dr. Jay Bhattacharya.
According to Twitter employees, the company has been working on de-amplifying and flag accounts that it claims are spreading misinformation. These actions limited their visibility and prevented them from being included in the trending page. They also reportedly kept strike counts for every violation of the platform's guidelines.
Some of the officials who worked on this matter wanted to expand their scope of shadow-banning. However, certain methods were only used for the highest levels of the company. These included Dorsey, Parag Agrawal, Voel Roth, and Gadde.
The group that worked on this matter was reportedly referred to as the Sip-PES, and they would target controversial accounts such as Libs of TikTok. Even though the account had not broken the company's hate conduct code, they would still ban it.
According to an internal memo, the account's reposting of TikTok's was insinuating that gender healthcare is akin to child abuse or grooming. The account's moderation team also found that they did not violate the guidelines when the user reported that her home address and pictures had been posted online.
According to the leaked messages, Dorsey supported short-term bans. Roth, on the other hand, wanted to expand the policy to combat harmful content.
Following the firing of Jim Baker, a former FBI lawyer and Twitter executive, the company's head of security, Mike Weiss, said that a new batch of the Twitter Files would be released by journalist Matt Taibbi.
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