X on Monday announced it will now tell users when their posts have been 'shadowbanned,' meaning shown to fewer people, due to the company's compliance with local laws. The feature is an expansion of the social network's earlier transparency tool called 'Under the Hood,' which allows users to see if any labels have been applied to their account or their posts that could have affected their visibility on the platform. We've expanded Under The Hood after seeing people's appreciation of more transparency into government-required content filtering.In addition to showing labels applied to your account and posts in the prior month, Under The Hood now shows if your account or posts had their' https://t.co/Op5rBnE1jg pic.twitter.com/ZUrbkO28ay Previously, information about how an X user's account or posts were being labeled and downranked was not available to end users. As a result, many often accused the company, formerly known as Twitter, of having shadowbanned them. That began to change...
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