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There seemed to have been a bit of a thaw earlier, however, the recent increase is far more stronger, as far as I can tell.
I remember more comments about decreased throttling after Musk took over, not before.
Do you spend much time on twitter?
You are free to reply with these graphs though.
Yes, I look twitter constantly. I don't remember where I saw them unfortunately. As part of said constant use, every month I see a few 'twitter started censoring my views/followers: check out this chart' and sometimes a 'twitter stopped censoring my views/followers and i'm finally taking off, yay!'. And that was true well before musk.
As above, this doesn't mean he hasn't removed large shadowbans and it isn't causing rightwing accounts to grow rapidly - just that this doesn't really prove anything.
The info about throttling hasn't come out yet, and I believe you are going to be proven wrong.
There were various throttling methods employed on a lot of RW and GOP accounts. Some of it went away when Musk was buying Twitter, but some of it is still in play.
It takes some time until situation becomes equitable.
My claims here are measured though - I'm confident i'm right in the sense that "just steve sailer's graph isn't good evidence for concluding suppression". Compare to believing a n=7 unrandomized trial with p=.049 on the effect of st johns wort on anxiety, even if it does have an effect (the effect is probably much smaller).
I'm also not claiming that throttling isn't affecting RW and GOP accounts - although I claimed elsewhere that said throttling wasn't significantly restricting (e.g. ~ 10% to 20% of all views) the largest / mainstream conservative accounts, but more was applied to far-right accounts more (sailer being the latter). (from OP "Twitter's censorship hurt the far-right, covid-skeptics, and similar more clearly")
I'd end up being wrong in a related sense of "not being aware of something true" if it was shown that sailer was suppressed and that suppression was directly related to that specific view spike, even though the graph still is too little evidence. But there's no way musk or the journos will release detailed enough analyses to conclude that (even though twitter probably could technically).
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