X.com users have begun reporting instances of Elon Musk’s new shadow-ban transparency policy, under which accounts are flagged by the company without user input for “potentially” containing sensitive media.
In a move away from Meta’s longtime policy of denying the existence of "shadow bans," Instagram has launched a new tool to let users know if their posts are “barred from being recommended to other users.”
Twitter owner Elon Musk this morning announced an official shadow-banning policy, aimed at limiting the visibility and profitability of what he termed “negative/hate tweets.”
New Twitter owner Elon Musk has vowed to crack down on impersonation accounts, a long-standing concern for adult performers on the platform who have been shadow-banned or suspended even while fake accounts with thousands of followers thrive.
During a recent interview, Facebook founder, Instagram owner and Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg doubled down on his platforms' total ban on “pornography” and flatly denied the existence of “shadowbans” against specific users.
The Atlantic has published an article analyzing the phenomenon of “shadowbanning," including its deployment against sex workers by social media platforms, labeling the practice “Big Tech’s big problem.”
Yesterday’s hack of a large number of prominent Twitter accounts — which led to the company’s disabling of “blue checkmark” (i.e., verified) accounts for part of the day — also resulted in the unexpected confirmation of the practice known by users as “shadowbanning,” and by Twitter as “blacklisting.”
Twitter, the one major social media platform that tolerates open sexual expression, and users who are sex workers, has unveiled a new set of Terms of Service effective January 1, 2020.
