{"id":1769773,"date":"2022-12-09T10:19:44","date_gmt":"2022-12-09T15:19:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1769773"},"modified":"2022-12-09T10:24:17","modified_gmt":"2022-12-09T15:24:17","slug":"musk-announces-new-twitter-features-reveals-company-targeted-political-candidates-takes-shot-at-biden","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/musk-announces-new-twitter-features-reveals-company-targeted-political-candidates-takes-shot-at-biden\/","title":{"rendered":"Musk Announces New Twitter Features, Reveals Company Targeted Political Candidates; Takes Shot At Biden"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">28<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fmusk-announces-new-twitter-features-reveals-company-targeted-political-candidates-takes-shot-at-biden%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1769773&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>Twitter CEO Elon Musk revealed late on Thursday new product features that will soon come to Twitter.<\/p>\n<p>Musk made the revelations after journalist Bari Weiss released the second installment of \u201cThe Twitter Files,\u201d which <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/twitters-underhanded-actions-targeting-libs-of-tiktok-revealed-in-new-twitter-files-release\">showed<\/a> how Twitter built blacklists, prevented disfavored tweets from trending on the platform, and actively limited the visibility of entire accounts and even trending topics without informing users.<\/p>\n<p>Many users responded to the proof that Twitter had been <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/twitters-underhanded-actions-targeting-libs-of-tiktok-revealed-in-new-twitter-files-release\">suppressing<\/a> conservative accounts to manipulate conversations on the platform by asking if action had been taken against their accounts since Weiss gave only a few examples.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTwitter is working on a software update that will show your true account status, so you know clearly if you\u2019ve been shadowbanned, the reason why and how to appeal,\u201d Musk tweeted.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Twitter is working on a software update that will show your true account status, so you know clearly if you\u2019ve been shadowbanned, the reason why and how to appeal<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Elon Musk (@elonmusk) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/elonmusk\/status\/1601042125130371072?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">December 9, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Twitter is working on a software update that will show your true account status, so you know clearly if you\u2019ve been shadowbanned, the reason why and how to appeal<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Elon Musk (@elonmusk) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/elonmusk\/status\/1601042125130371072?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">December 9, 2022<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Musk later added that the platform would soon \u201cstart freeing the name space of 1.5 billion accounts.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThese are obvious account deletions with no tweets &#038; no log in for years,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">These are obvious account deletions with no tweets &#038; no log in for years<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Elon Musk (@elonmusk) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/elonmusk\/status\/1601124608282742785?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">December 9, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">These are obvious account deletions with no tweets &amp; no log in for years<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Elon Musk (@elonmusk) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/elonmusk\/status\/1601124608282742785?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">December 9, 2022<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Musk responded to a question about whether \u201cany political candidates \u2014 either in the US or elsewhere \u2014 [were] subject to shadowbanning while they were running for office or seeking re-election\u201d by answering, \u201cYes.\u201d<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"und\">Yes<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Elon Musk (@elonmusk) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/elonmusk\/status\/1601123235755487233?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">December 9, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"und\" dir=\"ltr\">Yes<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Elon Musk (@elonmusk) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/elonmusk\/status\/1601123235755487233?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">December 9, 2022<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>\u201cMost engineers don\u2019t feel strongly about politics, but do want to work with other great engineers,\u201d Musk added. \u201cSilicon Valley has world\u2019s best engineering talent, but is co-located with San Francisco, which is far left. Thus, far left gained control of an incredibly powerful info weapon.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Musk also took a shot at President Joe Biden for not bringing home U.S. Marine veteran Paul Whelan during a prisoner swap in which the administration freed convicted Russian terrorist Viktor Bout, who plotted to sell weapons to terrorists for the purpose of killing U.S. federal agents, in exchange for WNBA player Brittney Griner.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNever leave a marine behind,\u201d Musk tweeted. \u201cNever.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Bout was <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/breaking-biden-offers-to-release-notorious-russian-terrorist-in-exchange-for-brittney-griner-report-says\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">convicted<\/a> on terrorism charges back in 2011 for trying to sell tens of millions of dollars worth of missiles to the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) to shoot down U.S. military helicopters.<\/p>\n<p>Sen. Bob Menendez (D-NJ), chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/top-democrat-senator-blasts-biden-over-releasing-terrorist-for-griner-deeply-disturbing-decision\">slammed<\/a> President Joe Biden for releasing Bout.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis should be a moment of deep reflection for the United States government to recognize we have a serious problem with hostage-taking of Americans,\u201d Menendez said in a statement. \u201cThe Russians and other regimes that take American citizens hostage cannot pretend that there is equivalence between the Brittney Griners of the world and people like Viktor Bout, the so-called \u2018Merchant of Death.\u2019 Nothing could be further from the truth, and we cannot ignore that releasing Bout back into the world is a deeply disturbing decision.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe must stop inviting dictatorial and rogue regimes to use Americans overseas as bargaining chips, and we must try to do better at encouraging American citizens against traveling to places like Russia where they are primary targets for this type of unlawful detention,\u201d he continued.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Twitter CEO Elon Musk revealed late on Thursday new product features that will soon come to Twitter. Musk made the revelations after journalist Bari Weiss released the second installment of \u201cThe Twitter Files,\u201d which showed how Twitter built blacklists, prevented disfavored tweets from trending on the platform, and actively limited the visibility of entire accounts &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":134,"featured_media":1890651,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"Musk Announces New Twitter Features, Reveals Company Targeted Political Candidates; Takes Shot At Biden","footnotes":""},"categories":[541],"tags":[4156,3620,7064,5425,6202,7186,4250,3753,5114,4049,4259,7185,4253,6195],"class_list":["post-1769773","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-daily-wire","tag-announces","tag-biden","tag-candidates","tag-company","tag-daily","tag-features","tag-musk","tag-political","tag-reveals","tag-shot","tag-takes","tag-targeted","tag-twitter","tag-wire"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"Musk Announces New Twitter Features, Reveals Company Targeted Political Candidates; Takes Shot At Biden","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1769773","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/134"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1769773"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1769773\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1890651"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1769773"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1769773"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1769773"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}