Something is deciding what you're allowed to see online — and it isn't you.
You follow an account because you trust it. Then the posts stop arriving, the view count slides a little lower every day, and searching the person’s own name doesn’t even surface them. Most people assume the creator faded. @sarah_westall says they were filtered — quietly, deliberately, by a system you were never meant to notice.
Westall is a journalist with more than 1,500 episodes and over 100 million downloads, and she’s now suing Google in an antitrust case with one goal: force into open court the actual mechanism behind the shadow banning, and the hand that operates it.
What she’s describing doesn’t stop at journalists. It reaches small businesses, political candidates, and the comment you left this morning that went nowhere for reasons no one will explain.
You’re being told to trust systems that are quietly working against you.
What Sarah found about how the censorship actually works is the part nobody was supposed to see. 🧵
@roathboy Oh the oracle is off is he. He who knows all, yet continues with a random foto. Well I was there when Saunders scored in Brussels. Is that long enough. The fact we are not in this ‘biggest’ WC is a travesty of gargantuan proportions. Only two men are to blame. Neither are PBodin