@Facebook, you’re next.

FEC Complaint Filed Over Twitter Shadow-Ban

Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-FL) has filed a complaint with the Federal Election Commission (FEC) against Twitter in response to the apparent “Shadow-Banning” of his account. A representative from Twitter told Breitbart News, As we have said before, we do not shadowban. We are aware that some accounts are not automatically populated in our search box, and [are] shipping a change to address this,” said Twitter. “The profiles, Tweets, and discussions about these accounts do appear when you search for them.”

Screenshots of Congressman Gaetz’s Twitter account surfaced this week showing the extent of the problem with his account.

“The evidence is piling up that I am being treated differently on Twitter than people on the political Left”

Insanity. *Both* of @MattGaetz’s accounts have been taken out of not just the autocomplete but won’t even register when properly tagged. @RepMattGaetz Governmental relations suicide considering the oversight powers he’ll have if GOP maintains House majority. @twittergov $twtr pic.twitter.com/ErOOiPgCPR — Ali Alexander (@ali) July 24, 2018

Gaetz told the Daily Caller “The evidence is piling up that I am being treated differently on Twitter than people on the political Left and I don’t like that because I enjoy the Twitter platform, I enjoy the engagement, I enjoy the candor. I would think that having won my election with 69 percent of the vote to serve in the Congress that the marketplace of ideas could accommodate my views.”

Feeling good about ⁦@Twitter⁩ explaining how I wasn’t shadow banned…😳 https://t.co/P9ROX1pZEQ — Devin Nunes (@DevinNunes) July 27, 2018

It was apparently our “behavior” that got us treated differently? https://t.co/chciZJLtE9 — Matt Gaetz (@mattgaetz) July 27, 2018