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Elon Musk’s Jet Tracking Twitter Account Gets Shadow Banned

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An account on Twitter tracking Elon Musk's private plane around the globe suddenly went under the radar.

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 Users discovered they couldn't search for it or tag it with tweets using suggested usernames.

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According to Jack Sweney, the bot's creator and creator, the restriction was because Twitter staffers had targeted the account to dampen it. He had the receipts to prove this.

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He tweeted Saturday before posting a thread called "My Twitter Files."

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Sweeney was informed by an anonymous employee of Twitter that the @elonjet account was "visibility restricted/restricted in a severe degree" since Dec. 2.

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He claimed that he was using an internal Slack channel. Ella Irwin asked a "Team" for help and requested that they "please apply heavyVF to @elonjet instantly."

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Visibility filtering is also known as "VF", which stands for "visibility filtering". This allows you to blocklist or shadow-ban certain accounts and protects their content from others.

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Bari Weiss, a former columnist for the New York Times, first reported that Twitter employees use the term internally on Thursday.

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Weiss stated that a senior Twitter employee had said to her that visibility filtering was a way to hide what people see at different levels. It's a potent tool.

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