Datagrade CEO Joe Toscano feels the shadow banning exposed by Elon Musk's so-called 'Twitter Files' is “one step away” from George Orwell's Thought Police from “1984.”
Datagrade founder and CEO Joe Toscano shares his insights about the 'Twitter Files' in a Fox News Digital interview. so-called"Twitter Files" shed light on the company's practices of secretly"blacklisting" certain tweets and users in a practice that one expert believes is"one step away" from George Orwell's Thought Police from the famed novel"1984.
Toscano, a former Google consultant and internet data guru who was featured in the popular Netflix documentary"The Social Dilemma," believes the term"shadow banning" has been mainstreamed and is no longer something that can be dismissed as a wacky conspiracy theory. Toscano, who authored the 2018 book"Automating Humanity," feels Musk’s reveal could result in significant trouble for formerand other big tech executives who have long insisted their platforms don’t shadow band.
"We see it in Twitter, we literally are looking at the files right now. But you can be confident this is happening across every other platform," he said."I think it's time for the government to ask for reports from other platforms to validate that they are not [shadow banning], and if they are, there should be some kind of action taken to help protect people's freedom of speech.
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