Twitter’s Secret Blacklists

Twitter Headquarters is seen in San Francisco on November 18, 2022. (Tayfun Coskun via Getty Images)
Teams of employees were tasked with suppressing the visibility of accounts or subjects deemed undesirable or dangerous—all in secret, without informing users.
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This story is by Bari Weiss, Abigail Shrier, Michael Shellenberger and Nellie Bowles.
Twitter—the social-media platform founded in 2006 with more than 330 million users that has fueled political uprisings, launched presidential campaigns, and bequeathed to us the 280-character rant—has claimed to be a global “public square,” its mission “to give everyone…
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