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Google Shadowbans News About Minnesota Violence in Its Search Results for “Riots Today”
Other search engines provide news about the Minnesota riots when the same search term is used.
Twitter Shadowbans Gina Carano
Twitter has hidden Carano behind a “sensitive content” warning and removed her from search results.
Some Facebook Users Find Commenting the Single Word “Coronavirus” Results in Auto-Censorship
A weird way of censoring.
How TikTok Ordered Moderators in India to Censor Content Which Is “Against Chinese Government”
Direct calls for censorship match up with previous reports.
Instagram Censors Artist Yuumei Over #FreeHongKong Art, Calls It “Hate Speech”
Yuumei believes that this is a direct attack by the Chinese government who have taken advantage of the social network content blocking systems.
Project Veritas Strikes Again: Hidden Camera Video Shows Twitter Developer Saying How Algorithms Are Written to Shadowban Conservative Voices
It seems that one of the methods used by Twitter to determine which types of speech are permitted on the platform is equating conservative users to bots.
British Activist Tommy Robinson Shadowbanned on YouTube After UK MPs Lobbied for His Removal
Robinson’s channel and videos have been scrubbed from YouTube search and recommendations. They can only be accessed via a direct link and are hidden behind an interstitial.
