Getting Bigger: Twitter Expands Test for New Censorship Operation ‘Worldwide’

NewsBusters ^ | 2/7/2022 | Joseph Vazquez

[JV3MRC]

Twitter launched a new tool that allows users to secretly downvote tweets to “better surface the most relevant content,” the platform said in an email to MRC Free Speech America. Twitter will be able to poison tweets that leftists don't like by moving negative replies to the top and burying favorable comments.

The Verge published a report Feb. 4 headlined, “Twitter expands downvote test worldwide.” The platform initially gave the option to select web users, but will expand it to include iOS and Android users. “Unlike on sites like Reddit, total tallies for upvotes and downvotes aren’t public, but are being used by Twitter behind the scenes to tweak what replies it shows users,” the report said. Panned tweets, in other words, may see mostly negative comments inundating the replies section, a new censorship gambit for the platform. A Jan. 4 report by digital marketing agency Omnicore noted that “American Twitter users are more likely to be Democrats than Republicans,” which suggests that Twitter's new “downvote” tool is yet another scheme to shut conservatives up.

An October 2020 Pew Research analysis reported that “just 10% of users produced 92% of all tweets from U.S. adults since last November,” and “69% of these highly prolific users identify as Democrats or Democratic-leaning independents.”

[Luke21]

I had one of mine get zapped here the other day. But it’s rare.

[NetAddicted]

Perfect response!

[Gaffer]

....secretly downvote tweets to “better surface the most relevant content,”

The Russians and East Germans were very good at these campaigns to brainwash the gullible. Campaigns in schools to teach children how to recognize 'bad speak' about the government from their parents, encouraging them to turn the parents in. This is no different.

[Gaffer]

I never joined or used either.