shadowban

To ban a user from a community without their knowledge, allowing them to continue reading and commenting, but rendering their contributions invisible or less visible to other users.

On Wednesday a Vice News story reported that some senior Republican officials were not visible in automatic search results. Vice framed this as “shadow banning” without providing any evidence that it was deliberate.

Over the weekend, Sweeney tweeted that his account had been shadowbanned, meaning that its visibility had been deliberately reduced.

To filter out results without the publisher's knowledge.

An instance of shadowbanning.

Is there any basis for the idea that conservatives are being targeted for shadow bans? No – at least not based on what Vice purported to show.

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