House Intelligence Committee Chairman Devin Nunes (R-CA) on Sunday said that he was looking into "legal remedies" against Twitter after the social network temporarily made some conservatives' accounts harder to find.
In a report this week, Vice revealed that Twitter's attempt to curb abuse by trolls had resulted in some conservatives being "shadow banned," limiting the visibility of their accounts.
The Republican Party chair Ronna McDaniel, several conservative Republican congressmen, and Donald Trump Jr.’s spokesman no longer appear in the auto-populated drop-down search box on Twitter, VICE News has learned. It’s a shift that diminishes their reach on the platform — and it's the same one being deployed against prominent racists to limit their visibility. The profiles continue to appear when conducting a full search, but not in the more convenient and visible drop-down bar. (The accounts appear to also populate if you already follow the person.)
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