Conservatives claim evidence of shadow banning is being undone before Musk can expose it
Source: Steve Watson
Conservative Twitter users have noticed a massive uptick in followers and engagement following Elon Musk’s Twitter buy, while leftists on the platform are experiencing the inverse, prompting some to wonder if the company is undoing evidence that it rigged the reach of people it deemed to be undesirable.
The trend is so extreme that it prompted Twitter to address it, claiming that it is all organic owing to new accounts being created and existing accounts being deactivated.
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“We’ve been looking into recent fluctuations in follower counts. While we continue to take action on accounts that violate our spam policy which can affect follower counts, these fluctuations appear to largely have been a result of an increase in new account creation and deactivation,” the company said in a statement.
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— Ben Collins (@oneunderscore__) April 27, 2022
Some Twitter users noticed massive follower drop-offs yesterday.
Twitter just confirmed to @NBCNews that this activity was organic, not automated.
In short: The same day Elon Musk bought Twitter, a lot of people deactivated their accounts.
Twitter's Statement below. pic.twitter.com/V7is7tZYq2
Not everyone is buying Twitter’s explanation, however.
While I’m awesome and totally deserving of 87,000 new followers a day it seems that someone took the shackles off my account. Wonder if they’re burning the evidence before new mgmt comes in? pic.twitter.com/9Mso48qyNP
— Donald Trump Jr. (@DonaldJTrumpJr) April 26, 2022
Remember when Twitter, one of the biggest social media companies in the world, spent years shadow banning conservatives and gaslit everyone by pretending they didn’t?
— Buck Sexton (@BuckSexton) April 27, 2022
Crazy world back then, a few days ago
Noticing an increase in followers and engagement after losing huge chunks (or static follower count for weeks on end) for the past few years. Also seeing tweets from people I whose accounts I never see and am not having to refollow other conservatives repeatedly.
— Dana Loesch (@DLoesch) April 26, 2022
+/- Twitter followers since the Elon Twitter announcement: @aoc – 27,641 followers@maddow -18,648 followers@StephenAtHome -21,460 followers@mattgaetz +24,929 followers@DineshDSouza +41,945 followers@RepMTG +41,181 followers
— Barry Rubin (@barubin) April 26, 2022
Is anyone else losing followers too? I'm seeing people across Twitter report they have lost thousands today. I am down 5,000. Though much of that could be because I'm an idiot with way too many followers. Idk
— David Hogg 🌻 (@davidhogg111) April 25, 2022
Weird. I just lost more than 8,000 followers in the last couple of hours. Was it something I said? https://t.co/TS3vwDephc
— Mark Hamill (@MarkHamill) April 25, 2022
So Truth Social surges to #1 in the app store amid a wave of people on the right fleeing twitter but also people are gaining tons of followers from people flooding back to twitter?
— Tim Pool (@Timcast) April 27, 2022
Something doesnt add up pic.twitter.com/WSHavX81fG
Human Events Daily host Jack Posobiec noted Wednesday, “They’re deboosting liberal accounts right now. Anna Navaro had a post up that said that she’s losing followers, Meanwhile, myself, Cernovich, LibsofTikTok… Everybody on our side got a massive boost out of nowhere.”
“You know what it is, they’re pulling the breaks out, they’re trying to cover up all of their tracks, because they know what they’ve been doing. James O’Keefe proved this with the shadow banning,” Posobiec continued, adding “He proved it. James O’Keefe found the algorithms within Silicon Valley, they do this stuff.”
“Elon… He didn’t just purchase a company, he purchased evidence. He purchased evidence in criminal cases. That’s what he’s got here, and that’s what you’re seeing. He called it himself, an antibody-like response to his action,” Posobiec further asserted.
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Fox News host Sean Hannity also covered the development Wednesday, suggesting that Twitter is attempting to “cover their tracks” before Musk’s takeover is complete.
“Conservatives on the platform—all of a sudden out of nowhere—enjoyed a massive bump in followers and interactions,” Hannity said, explaining “For example, in just two days, Donald Trump Jr.—wow, magically—he got 200,000 new followers. That is roughly a 2,000 percent increase daily. Wow. It’s almost as if Twitter employees lifted a broad anti-conservative, anti-Trump shadow ban—which we all knew was taking place anyway—in an effort to cover their tracks before the new boss takes over.”
Elon Musk is, of course, completely aware of the evidence pointing to shadow banning:
