By Selwyn Duke
Americans have increasingly come to believe that the Fourth Estate is a fifth column, with polls showing that only about 20 percent of the public trusts the media. Yet there’s a type of information-entity manipulation that’s probably more insidious but perhaps less well known: social-media bias.
This type of bias is about suppression as much as expression. And a good example is the recent revelation by a source inside Twitter that the company is stifling conservative users by blacklisting them and employing a process known as “shadowbanning.” Speaking exclusively to Breitbart Tech, the source also disclosed that Twitter places favored users (generally liberals) on a “whitelist,” which gives them a higher profile in search results than their popularity warrants.
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