did they lie to us and did they lie to congressional lawmakers? when the site said, look, we don t engage in shadow banning. remember, that s what the leadership said. that s one of the many questions now being considered following the release of that second tranche of twitter material which ans to bowie concerns that yes the site targeted conservatives. especially in the days leading up to the 2020 election. at least so say critics. they also say this is much worse than shadow banning. here s a sample of what we now know revealed in a string of tweets by reporter bari weiss as brian mentioned, including including this reference to shadow banning of a critic ever the administration s covid policy. quote: take, for example stanford s dr. jay bhattacharya who argued that covid lockdowns would harm children. covid secretly placed him on a trends blacklist which prevented his tweets from trending. or consider the popular right
griff jenkins joins us with more. good morning. here we go, we knew another dro was coming, but we didn t know it would be over secret blacklist or that it would have us questioning this morning whether twitter execs lied when they claimed under oath that th site didn t engage in the lead up to the 202020 election which we now know those execs called it visibility filtering carried in a string of tweets by journalist barry weiss, a popular conservatives where the target starting with this reference to their shadow banding and the critic of the ministrations policy saying tak for example stanford who argued that covid lockdowns would harm children. twitter secretly placed him on trident blacklist which prevented his tweets from trending. and then this one with a friend of the show, consider the popular right-wing talkshow hos dan bondi know who at one point was left with a search blacklis and this one saying that twitte