{"id":44775,"date":"2016-08-01T07:00:02","date_gmt":"2016-08-01T11:00:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/?p=44775"},"modified":"2016-08-01T07:00:02","modified_gmt":"2016-08-01T11:00:02","slug":"is-twitter-shadow-banning-donald-trump","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/?p=44775","title":{"rendered":"Is Twitter &#8220;Shadow-Banning&#8221; Donald Trump?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!--more-->by Paul Joseph Watson<br \/>\nInfoWars.com,<\/p>\n<p class=\"unnamed10\"><strong>Twitter is provably censoring Donald Trump in order to prevent him raising money for his presidential campaign.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"unnamed10\">A tweet sent out by Trump yesterday to promote his #MillionDollarMatch donation drive does not appear on Trump\u2019s profile page nor did it appear on the feed of anyone following him.<\/p>\n<p class=\"unnamed10\"><u><strong>You can check for yourself. <\/strong><\/u><a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/realDonaldTrump\/status\/758864221140455425\">Here<\/a> is the tweet sent out by Trump yesterday and <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/realDonaldTrump\">here<\/a> is his main profile page \u2013 which <em>doesn\u2019t<\/em> show the tweet. <strong>The tweet has been buried as if it never existed.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"unnamed10\">This is yet another example of Twitter shadow banning \u2013 where people on a designated \u2018blacklist\u2019 have their tweets relegated on search results and hidden from users\u2019 timelines, while leftist politicians and commentators on a \u2018whitelist\u2019 have their tweets promoted.<\/p>\n<p class=\"unnamed10\"><strong>A Twitter insider <a href=\"http:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/tech\/2016\/02\/16\/exclusive-twitter-shadowbanning-is-real-say-inside-sources\/\">admitted to Breitbart<\/a> back in February that Twitter had indeed begun shadow banning politically incorrect users, a claim verified by a senior editor at a major digital publisher<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>http:\/\/twitter.com\/TheQuQu\/status\/759044947081306112?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p class=\"unnamed10\" align=\"left\">A <strong>Trump tweet in which he declared that \u201cthe establishment and special interests are absolutely killing our country\u201d <a href=\"http:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/tech\/2016\/04\/24\/twitter-shadowbans-donald-trump-tweet\/\">was also shadow banned<\/a> by Twitter back in April.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"unnamed10\" align=\"left\">While Twitter is censoring Trump, it has <strong>repeatedly been accused of gaming its algorithms in support of Hillar<\/strong>y. Back in February, users were irate after the social media giant appeared to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.vocativ.com\/290811\/twitter-accused-of-censoring-anti-hillary-hashtag\/\">censor the anti-Hillary hashtag<\/a> #WhichHillary after it started trending.<\/p>\n<p class=\"unnamed10\" align=\"left\">The revelation that Twitter is shadow banning Trump comes<u><strong> on the heels of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.newsmax.com\/Politics\/google-technical-bug-omit-trump\/2016\/07\/28\/id\/741077\/\">Google claiming<\/a> that a \u2018technical bug\u2019 was to blame for Donald Trump not appearing when users searched for \u201cpresidential candidates\u201d.<\/strong><\/u><\/p>\n<p class=\"unnamed10\" align=\"left\"><strong>Twitter\u2019s shadow banning of Trump also follows its controversial decision to slap conservative commentator Milo Yiannopoulos with a lifetime ban.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"unnamed10\" align=\"left\">___<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/news\/2016-07-31\/twitter-shadow-banning-donald-trump\">http:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/news\/2016-07-31\/twitter-shadow-banning-donald-trump<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-44775","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44775","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=44775"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44775\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=44775"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=44775"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=44775"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}