After Matt Taibbi Leaves Twitter, Elon Musk ‘Shadow Bans’ All of Taibbi’s Tweets
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Matt Taibbi is a writer, who used to post on Twitter, but got in trouble with his friend Elon Musk. When Matt was on a TV show talking about Elon and how he was blocking people on Twitter, he refused to say anything bad about Elon. Then, Elon stopped letting people share tweets that had links to a website that Matt uses to write stories. So, Matt decided to leave Twitter and use the website instead. When people search for Matt on Twitter, they can't find him anymore. Elon did that because he didn't like what Matt was saying.
Not "if". It happened. It's interesting how willing you are to promulgate a false narrative.
> (1) in effect for less than 3 minutes after taibbi posted about it
False. It was in effect for long enough for many articles to be written about it and many people to see it. I saw it myself.
> (2) affected only a subset of users
False. It even affected non-Twitter users. I don't use Twitter and I saw it.
False.
> Maybe it happened to some users and not others.
False.
> Maybe it didn't happen at all.
False.
> I checked right away and didn't see what this article describes.
Twitter rolled it back days later once the coverage was wide enough and negative enough. Pay attention to dates and times.
The honest pathway open to you now is to admit you're wrong.
Go for it. You'll feel better.
It now seems to be fixed, whatever the cause.
Literally nobody is saying his account was invisible, they are saying it was disengaged from the algorithm (deboosted)
You could see the tweets, but were unable to search for them .. similar to how Musk allows pro-Ukraine war reporting, but heavily restricts this content from the algorithm.