The debate as to whether or not conservatives are being censored on social media continues.

This time we have a report from Vice News definitively stating that Twitter is shadow-burning

prominent Republicans and not their Democratic counterparts, thus playing into the idea

that many Republicans and conservatives have said that conservatives face the brunt of censorship

and not those on the left. Now Twitter denies this. They state they are not targeting individuals

based on what they say or their politics, that it's all based on behaviors. In May, we saw a

blog post from Twitter where they announced they were going to start promoting healthier conversations,

that they were going to look for certain behaviors and see how certain accounts were connected

to others. So is it possible that the bias within Twitter makes it so they don't understand

the behaviors they target are more likely to be associated with conservatives? What does this

Vice News report say? Why are these prominent Republicans being shadow-banned and just exactly how

has everyone responded to the scandal? But before we get started, please head over to patreon.com

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a patron at whatever level you feel comfortable today. The story from Vice News, Twitter is shadow-burning

prominent Republicans like the RNC chair and Trump Jr. spokesman. Several conservative Republican

congressmen no longer appear in the auto-populated drop-down search box on Twitter. Twitter is limiting

the visibility of prominent Republicans in search results, a technique known as shadow-burning.

In what it says is a side effect of its attempts to improve the quality of discourse on the platform.

The Republican Party chair, Ronald McDaniel, several conservative Republican congressmen,

and Donald Trump Jr. spokesman no longer appear in the auto-populated drop-down search box on Twitter.

It's a shift that diminishes their reach on the platform, and it's the same one being deployed

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