Twitter released a disingenuous statement Thursday night in response to a recent study by the leftist website VICE News which found that Twitter is censoring top pro-Trump lawmakers.

Twitter is targeting pro-Trump Republican lawmakers Matt Gaetz, Devin Nunes, Mark Meadows, Jim Jordan and John Ratcliffe with shadowbanning by blocking their names in the search bar.

Twitter released an Orwellian statement denying they shadowban by narrowly defining what shadowbanning really is.

People are asking us if we shadow ban. We do not. But let’s start with, “what is shadow banning?” TRENDING: This Is America? Young Mother TASED, CUFFED AND ARRESTED for Not Wearing Face-Mask at Mostly Empty Stadium to Watch HS Football Game The best definition we found is this: deliberately making someone’s content undiscoverable to everyone except the person who posted it, unbeknownst to the original poster.

Then Twitter actually admitted they do shadowban users by blocking tweets from accounts users choose to follow from showing up in their feeds. ‘You have to go directly to their profile to see their posts,’ Twitter admitted in their blog post.

WHAT IS THE POINT OF A FOLLOW BUTTON IF TWEETS FROM PEOPLE YOU CHOOSE TO FOLLOW DON’T COME DOWN YOUR FEED??

Twitter denies they shadowban accounts then ADMITS tweets from people you follow may not come down your feed ‘you may have to go directly to their profile’. SO WHAT THE HELL IS THE POINT OF THE FOLLOW BUTTON IF THEIR TWEETS DON’T COME DOWN OUR FEEDS??? pic.twitter.com/50WxPAVGD4 — ❌Cristina Laila (@cristinalaila1) July 27, 2018

Twitter CEO and left-wing hack, Jack Dorsey responded to The Intercept’s Glenn Greenwald, who called Twitter’s statement disingenuous and asked ‘what’s the point of following someone if Twitter blocks their tweets from appearing in their timeline?’

Dorsey arrogantly replied, “We don’t block who you follow on your timeline. We do rank the timeline, so you may not see them there if those tweets are not as relevant as others. You can also turn this ranking off.”

Dorsey was referring to a “quality filter” which is on by default. Most Twitter users don’t even know how to turn this filter off, which of course is by design.

We don’t block who you follow on your timeline. We do rank the timeline, so you may not see them there if those tweets are not as relevant as others. You can also turn this ranking off. — jack (@jack) July 27, 2018

Twitter also said in their blog post, they use three signals when determining whether an account is a “bad faith actor” and will ultimately be ‘down ranked’ (shadowbanned).

In their third signal, they said they look at how other accounts interact with you (e.g. who mutes you, who follows you, who retweets you, who blocks you, etc)

This third signal is precisely how GOP lawmakers were caught up in their algorithms. Deplorables constantly retweet Gaetz, Meadows, Jordan and Nunes which ultimately led to their shadowbanning. Without realizing it, Twitter admitted to shadowbanning Republicans.

By Twitter looking at who mutes and blocks your account to determine whether you are a “bad faith actor” it only rewards the left-wing troll mobs who unleash campaigns to mass harass and block pro-Trump accounts.

Twitter says in determining if an account is a “bad-faith actor” they look at who they follow and retweet. So basically if you follow and retweet President Trump they shadowban your account. pic.twitter.com/ApXPhAjUSw — ❌Cristina Laila (@cristinalaila1) July 27, 2018

Breitbart News tech writer Allum Bokhari also pointed out leftists use mass-blocking campaigns to censor their opponents.

Exactly as I said in my article yesterday. The more accounts block and mute you, the more your tweets get downranked. They have given the left, with their mass-blocking campaigns, an algorithmic weapon to censor their opponents. I think they know it, too. pic.twitter.com/b9bMaT6xbW — Allum Bokhari❌ (@LibertarianBlue) July 27, 2018

Twitter can deny they shadowban all they want but everyone knows they are actively censoring conservatives.

Project Veritas and James O’Keefe caught Twitter engineers in undercover videos admitting they use algorithms to shadowban Trump supporters. ‘They look for 5,000 keywords to identify a redneck…like “guns, God and the Cross..”‘

The @nytimes asks — and then answers: “Is Twitter shadow banning Republicans? No, it is not.” We call BS! So did @realDonaldTrump.@LiamStack, we challenge you to watch this short clip and then justify your #FAKENEWS statement about #shadowbanning. pic.twitter.com/xgthBHazLj — Project Veritas (@Project_Veritas) July 26, 2018

Twitter stock tumbled 20% Friday after user numbers declined.

Lesson of the day: If you cut off half of your audience then your stock might drop.