I was just about to make the same post you did. Shadow banning and algorithmic trends manipulation was often treated as a conspiracy theory and yet today when we have screenshots of twitter's VF tools, it's treated like a nothing burger or buried.
Good point. Is it now the received wisdom of HN readers that these are legitimate tools of big-tech and that we should merely yawn at confirmation they were employed at scale to manage narratives deemed inappropriate? Then why lie about using them when testifying in front of Congress? Surely it's a matter-of-fact use of legal methods to silence those with whom one disagrees?
"It didn't happen, but it's a good thing that it did."