The sole owner of Twitter since October 28 Elon Musk, began sharing confidential company documents with the public last week. Using journalists as a resource in sharing these files, Musk made his second Twitter reveal today.

The subject of Elon Musk’s second revelation was the secret bans applied to accounts on Twitter. Twitter has previously absolutely denied it.shadow ban (hidden ban)It turned out that he even ran the application on many famous accounts. Let’s look at the details.

A separate team has been set up to secretly ban users on Twitter!

Founder of “De Vrije Pers” this week Barry Weiss The disclosure files, which emerged via Twitter, were used to secretly ban people from Twitter. a separate team revealed.

This team is responsible for creating blacklists and posting disapproved Tweets. prevent them from being listed among trends and even limit the visibility of accounts and trends. was liable. All these transactions were carried out in secret, without informing anyone.

It was mentioned that the team in question was called the “Strategic Response Team – Global Upgrade Team (SRT-GET)”. The team handled more than 200 cases per day.

Senior executives on the team include Vijaya Gadde (Head of Law, Policy and Trust), Yoel Roth (Head of Global Trust and Security), and former and current CEO Jack Dorsey and Parag Agrawal was also included.

Some examples (prohibited for individuals are indicated by colored labels)

Arguing that COVID restrictions will harm children, Dr. Jay Bhattacharya said:To the Trends Blacklist” has been posted. His tweets have been blocked from trending.

Conservative activist Charlie Kirk’s accountDo not reinforcemarked as ‘. In other words, this report was prevented from being published, and it was prevented from reaching large masses.

• Most accounts Twitter has secretly banned conservative and right wing people bills included.

But what exactly does this secret prohibition entail? Twitter employees explain:

“Twitter executives and staff what many call ‘shadow ban’Filter visibilityor “VF.” Multiple top-level sources have confirmed its meaning.

A senior Twitter employee explained it this way: Think of visibility filtering as a way to suppress different levels of what people see. This is a very powerful tool.

Two Twitter employees also confirmed: we have quite a bit of control over visibility. We control the magnification of your content (how many people it will reach). And normal people don’t know how much we earn.”

Basically, shadow ban served as a different kind of censorship.

Musk also made a promise for the future:

“Twitter is working on a software update that shows your real account status so you know clearly if you got a shadow ban, why, and how to appeal.”

It is currently unknown whether legal authorities will take action regarding Twitter’s past. Next Twitter disclosure, journalist in the coming days Matt Taibi is shared via

• So what do you think of what was revealed today?