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riversedge

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Sat Feb 7, 2026, 05:20 PM 2 hrs ago

X Users Test for Shadowbanning with Visibility Checks Last updated 2 minutes ago An Oglala Lakota account accused Elon




X Users Test for Shadowbanning with Visibility Checks

https://x.com/i/trending/2020255854830981360

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An Oglala Lakota account accused Elon Musk of throttling left-leaning posts, gaining over 10,000 likes as users from Sweden to England confirmed they could see it. Replies linked the concern to recently unsealed Epstein-Musk emails from 2012-2014, where Epstein proposed meetings that Musk denies pursuing. X denies shadowbanning based on politics, explaining visibility filtering targets spam or low-quality content instead, while users on both sides report occasional reach issues amid algorithm changes.
This story is a summary of posts on X and may evolve over time. Grok can make mistakes, verify its outputs.
Several people saying their posts have disappeared, others saying people who they have banned are now in their thread. etc etc.







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X Users Test for Shadowbanning with Visibility Checks Last updated 2 minutes ago An Oglala Lakota account accused Elon (Original Post) riversedge 2 hrs ago OP
With AI this sort of thing is all too easy. And eLoon is all too evil. Don't get why people still use X. dutch777 2 hrs ago #1

dutch777

(4,969 posts)
1. With AI this sort of thing is all too easy. And eLoon is all too evil. Don't get why people still use X.
Sat Feb 7, 2026, 05:28 PM
2 hrs ago

Drives me crazy when people write articles that briefly lays out some premise and then just uses a ridiculous number of Twitter/X posts like that is some sort of authoritative journalism rather that like doing decent broad based research and you know, actually writing the article yourself.

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