How Shadow Banning Can Silently Shift Opinion Online

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• lvxferre@mander.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  That strongly reminds me a social media manipulation pattern that I’ve noticed some years ago; basically, you apply the same rules to everyone, but enforce them slightly harsher towards one side, to “push” the community’s opinion to the other side. If done smartly this is really hard to detect because from a glance you’re simply enforcing the rules. It was relevant enough for me that I did an infographic back then, I’ll share it here:

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  What the text lays down seems smarter though. And that’s a problem, because it’s harder to detect.

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