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- GBD co-author Jay Bhattacharya was slapped with a secret “Trends Blacklist” tag by Twitter executives at some point after his account was created in September 2021, Weiss’s thread confirms. The blacklist tag effectively suppressed Bhattacharya’s tweets by preventing them from going viral or being picked up by Twitter’s trends algorithm.
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Dec 9, 2022 · This week Twitter released a set of internal emails and documents from before Elon Musk ’s takeover of the company in October. One of the revelations was that Dr. Bhattacharya, among many...
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Dec 8, 2022 · Bhattacharya’s account, for example, was flagged as being on a “trends blacklist,” according to Weiss, who shared an image of his account from Twitter’s point of view with the yellow...
Dec 9, 2022 · In a Twitter thread, Weiss said the blacklisted figures included Jay Bhattacharya, a Stanford University professor who opposed COVID-19 lockdowns, Charlie Kirk, a conservative activist, and “Libs...
Dec 9, 2022 · Bhattacharya was secretly blacklisted because he "argued that Covid lockdowns would harm children," and was thus unable to trend on the platform, Weiss reported in a Twitter thread. The...
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Dec 9, 2022 · Stanford anti-lockdown professor Jay Bhattacharya secretly blacklisted on Twitter, new leak shows. The prominent academic warned on the social media site that long absences from school and...
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Dec 10, 2022 · Stanford professor Dr. Jay Bhattacharya was “blacklisted” for raising questions about how school lockdowns might affect the nation’s children. He joined NewsNation’s “On Balance” on Friday to discuss the revelation, saying he was surprised that “Twitter would take on itself the suppression of scientific discussion.”.
Dec 9, 2022 · Dr Jay Bhattacharya argued against Covid school lockdowns in the US. Web Desk Updated: December 09, 2022 13:13 IST. Twitter's top executives allegedly kept a 'secret blacklist' to suppress accounts and topics and 'prevent disfavored tweets' from trending, data obtained by independent journalist Bari Weiss has revealed.
