Shadowbanning is real. I've seen it happen to people I follow. I'm like "Gee, so and so hasn't tweeted in several days." Then I manually go to their feed and viola! a dozen tweets.
Yes, Twitter Shadowbans people. At 6:00, it's explained that Julian Assange doesn't get the "Verified Checkmark" because he's caused too many problems for important people.
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