Twitter is stopping disabled activists from fighting for their human rights. Everyone should know about this.
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Twitter is apparently restricting the accounts of disability rights campaigners. And the impact this has had on them cannot be overstated.
Silencing dissent?
As I’ve been documenting, four members of the campaign group Disabled People Against Cuts (DPAC) have been subject to apparent enforcement action by Twitter against their accounts. This is more commonly known as “shadowbanning“. While the existence of shadowbanning has been hotly debated, what is clear is that, for nearly seven days, Twitter seemed to restrict the accounts of Nicola Jeffery (for transparency, my girlfriend), Paula Peters, Keith Walker and Bob Ellard. It did this by stopping their followers seeing their tweets and replies in notifications and on news feeds; stopping their accounts coming up on searches or in hashtag threads; and stopping people they tagged in tweets from seeing that they had been tagged.
Twitter says one of its “Tweet-level enforcement” actions is:
Limiting Tweet visibility: This makes content less visible on Twitter, in search results, replies, and on timelines.
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