Tag: politics

My personal Twitter account was banned from Twitter search results and all my tweets were marked as sensitive content. You would typically only find my account in the search if you were following me or I was following you. Additionally, my tweets are not displayed in search results when sensitive content is disabled in settings, which is by default.

This has happened to many Ukrainians and some famous Ukrainian singers have been banned similarly. Some say that it has been done to everyone. Twitter’s user base is divided into bubbles by many criteria. In the leaked Twitter code, you can see that everyone is marked who writes about the war of Russia against Ukraine and then such accounts are hidden automatically and not displayed.

It was especially noticeable by Ukrainians who recently tried to tell the world about the catastrophe caused by the destruction of the Kakhovka Hydroelectric Power Plant’s dam. At the same time, the CEO of Twitter, Elon Musk, posted on his page a video of pro-Russian propagandists Tucker Carlson, who talks about the destruction of the dam in the first seconds and then almost directly blames Ukraine for blowing it up without any proofs in the second minute of the show.