Twitter Appears to Shadowban Videos of Italy’s First Female Incoming PM Meloni

I&#x27;ve tested the same video search from a twitter account in Portugal and confirm the same (zero) results. My country lived through a dictatorship not long ago where someone in power decided what citizens could read or not, for &quot;our own good&quot; of course.<p>To whoever supports this censoring: please remember to remain consistent when these platforms start to shadowban you.

Never thought I&#x27;d see a daily wire article here.<p>The unfortunate bit is what&#x27;ll happen is twitter will go &quot;oops we made a mistake&quot;, but never acknowledge why this happened in the first place (which is likely because they were doing something nefarious to her ranking on twitter).

She hasnt even started as a pm yet the eu issued warnings. Apparently Ursula “has tools”. You can’t make this shit up.

The people who make these decisions, who are the ones signing off on this sort of thing?<p>Somehow I doubt this went to the board of directors level to ask if they have sign-off on low-key blocking a head of state in a market publicly-traded Twitter Inc. is active in.

As always, the &quot;mistakes&quot; are always in the same direction.

YouTube took down her videos then apologized and reinstated them.<p>This is the democratically elected head of a state. Their first female PM.

Daily Wire and Hacker News - what an increasingly weird yet fitting combination.

Twitter is becoming like the government: If they ban, censor, or try to censor something, you should definitely find out for yourself.<p>I’m sick and tired of companies “fact checking” and shadowbanning content for my “safety.”

Its surprising how effective media censorship can be. Anything the media wilfully chooses to ignore immediately becomes a &quot;fringe conspiracy theory&quot; no matter how real it might be. And any attempt to discuss the subject is viewed in this way.

Facebook and Twitter outright admitted to blocking content related to Hunter Biden&#x27;s laptop before the election 2020. They claimed it was for privacy concerns. And then after the election, there was no worry so that rule went away. All of these decisions are of a neoliberal view of the world which is mainly &quot;yes war, identity politics when convenient, block dissent otherwise&quot;. This will only continue.

I can confirm I get the same results. Testing for other leaders, I get plenty of results for e.g. Emanuel Macron. Ironically, the first result is a speech of Meloni addressing Macron.<p>By the time they fix the &quot;accidental bug triggered by anomalously high search volume&quot; (or some similar excuse), the interest spike in Meloni will have passed, and her videos&#x27; reach will have been successfully stifled.<p>And they&#x27;ll learn their lesson, and next time will just reduce the visibility of her and her associates&#x27; posts. Assuming they haven&#x27;t already also done that.

So there is a facism filter.

Wish I could find a more neutral source, but this is what is available. I was surprised to see this, I had thought that shadowbans on twitter were like those on reddit, so only used for non-human bots.