Donald Trump Slams Twitter for 'Shadow Banning' Republican Party Politicians

Usa President Donald Trump on Thursday slammed Twitter for "shadow banning" some Republicans in search results on the micro-blogging platform.

"SHADOW BANNING" prominent Republicans. Not practiced. We will look into this discriminatory and illegal do at once! Many complaints," Trump tweeted.

The tweet came a day subsequently Vice News reported that Republican Party chair Ronna McDaniel, several conservative Republican congressmen and Donald Trump Jr.'s spokesperson stopped showing upwards in Twitter'southward automobile-populated drop-downward search box.

A shadow ban is when Twitter forcefully limits the visibility of certain posts or certain accounts to mitigate whatever potential harmful content being shared.

Donald Trump Slams Twitter for 'Shadow Banning' Republican Party Politicians

"Twitter is limiting the visibility of prominent Republicans in search results – a technique known as "shadow banning" – in what it says is a side result of its attempts to improve the quality of discourse on the platform," the report said.

A Twitter spokesperson told Vice: "We are enlightened that some accounts are not automatically populating in our search box and shipping a change to address this".

Later on Trump'south tweet, Twitter shares slipped iii.2 per cent to $42.79 in early on trading, Fortune reported. Trump has 53.3 million followers on the micro-blogging platform.

Twitter has stated in the past that prominent politicians and world leaders are largely exempt from its hateful oral communication policy since interacting with the general public outweighs any business of controversial tweets. That'south also the reason given by the company to not ban Trump'due south account even though the United states of america president has made quite a few gaffes during his term, even threatening world leaders.

With inputs from IANS