As of 0800, no.
But it is a private org and they can do as they please.
You use their site, you play by their rules..............
The scary thing is that vast numbers of American citizens have no problem with these tactics.
“You use their site, you play by their rules..............”
Which have to be put into the terms and conditions for the user to acknowledge prior to accessing the account.
Secretly employing algorithms to weed out speech which twitter dissents to is tantamount to violating first amendment rights. Frankly, based on what the engineer said, I see a major class action lawsuit by every conservative with a twitter account.
The shadow banning concept involves fraud though. Anyone who pays to target a conservative audience from an advertising standpoint (or however they generate revenue) would have standing.
“But it is a private org and they can do as they please.”
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It is a business, actually, not a non profit org. One of the keywords they discriminate against, as sited by one of the interviewees, is “cross” (as in Christian faith. I suspect they could be treading on some thin ice legally with that.
Twitter is a publicly traded company
Just like a VERY big and VERY old Christian religious organization...