Rep. Gaetz Files FEC Complaint Against Twitter Over Shadow Bans
by Tyler Durden
ZeroHedge.com
Sat, 07/28/2018
Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-FL) has filed a complaint with the Federal Election Commission (FEC) against Twitter after he discovered that his account was being shadowbanned – the practice of excluding or reducing the visibility of one’s tweets from normal circulation on the platform.
Gaetz’s decision comes after several weeks of conservative users proving that they’ve been subject to “Quality Filter Discrimination” (QFD) shadowbans, as well as a “glitch” reported by VICE that excluded user’s names from auto-populating search results.
During an appearance with Fox’s Tucker Carlson, Gaetz announced that he had filed the FEC complaint, which “gives his political rivals an unfair advantage,” reports Cassandra Fairbanks of the Gateway Pundit.
Earlier in the week, Gaetz told the Daily Caller “The evidence is piling up that I am being treated differently on Twitter than people on the political Left and I don’t like that because I enjoy the Twitter platform, I enjoy the engagement, I enjoy the candor,” adding “I would think that having won my election with 69 percent of the vote to serve in the Congress that the marketplace of ideas could accommodate my views.”
Gaetz also equated his Twitter shadowban to directly helping his political opponents.
“So I believe that Twitter may have illegally donated to the campaigns of my opponents by prejudicing against my content,” he said, while also noting over Twitter that several prominent conservative lawmakers were also subject to the practice.
Perhaps in his FEC complaint Gaetz will include undercover videos from Project Veritas, which caught several Twitter employees in January admitting to shadow bans and other bias against conservatives.
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