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Twitter mistakenly classifying real people as “bots” and banning or shadow banning their accounts

Twitter and Facebook have both said the solution to bad actors on their platforms is more artificial intelligence. I have argued that this will not work as well as they say it is going to work. Surprise: Twitter is shadow banning or banning real people after its AI-driven account review incorrectly labeld real people as robots. Source: Crackdown on ‘bots’ sweeps up people who tweet often – seattlepi.com

VICE News says Twitter is shadow banning prominent political figures

Shadow banning is the term describing a “hidden ban”. The user still thinks their account is active but their content may not be visible to others. In this example, Twitter is said to be excluding some prominent accounts from search results which has the same effect as a shadow ban. “We are aware that some accounts are not automatically populating in our search box and shipping a change to address this.” Asked why only conservative Republicans appear to be affected…

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How Twitter's shadow banning system works

Here is some insight in to how Twitter’s shadow banning algorithm’s may be operating. In addition to their “machine learning” (a good but significantly over-hyped technology) scanning of messages, their algorithms take in to account user reports, and the muting or blocking of accounts to decide if individual tweets or accounts should be shadow banned. The user that is shadow banned is not notified of the ban. Once shadow banned, one’s Tweets may not show up in some follower’s Twitter…

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How Twitter’s shadow banning system works

Here is some insight in to how Twitter’s shadow banning algorithm’s may be operating. In addition to their “machine learning” (a good but significantly over-hyped technology) scanning of messages, their algorithms take in to account user reports, and the muting or blocking of accounts to decide if individual tweets or accounts should be shadow banned. The user that is shadow banned is not notified of the ban. Once shadow banned, one’s Tweets may not show up in some follower’s Twitter…

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Instagram said to use shadow banning

See here. On Instagram, if you use the same hash tags too often, Instagram shadow bans your account because they can. Instagram is owned and operated by Facebook, which also shadow bans posts. It looks like all online platforms engage in shadow banning.