Trump Blasts Twitter ‘Shadow Banning’ as ‘Illegal,’ Threatens Action

President Trump threatened social media giant Twitter with an investigation Thursday over the reported “shadow banning” of prominent conservatives. “Twitter ‘SHADOW BANNING’ prominent Republicans. Not good. We will look into this discriminatory and illegal practice at once! Many complaints,” Trump tweeted.

Vice News reported this latest shadow banning less than a week after a House committee questioned the heads of Twitter, Facebook and YouTube over the censorship of conservatives. “Twitter is limiting the visibility of prominent Republicans in search results — a technique known as ‘shadow banning’ — in what it says is a side effect of its attempts to improve the quality of discourse on the platform,” Vice reported. READ MORE