Dr. Data King
Case #
5473

Twitter censors user for tweet about transgenderism: A Twitter user shared a screenshot of their censorship notice. The user tweeted "489 mastectomies performed on children in America in 2019 alone. And a total of 1,130 mastectomies of healthy breasts from 2016-2019, so that shows the rate is skyrocketing." The user included a link to an article in the Journal of the American Medical Association - Pediatrics that listed these statistics.  Twitter placed a sensitive content filter over the tweet. Such filters do not allow users on the mobile app who have the sensitive filter enabled on their profile, the default setting, to view the filtered content at all. On the web version of Twitter, the users must click through the sensitive content interstitial in order to view the filtered content. Not only do such filters give the impression of inappropriate content, similar filters have been shown to reduce user interaction with content. After the user appealed, Twitter reversed its decision.

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