Mark Changizi
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Twitter censors article titled "'Why are people embarrassed to admit they have Covid?' A CNN person wonders": Scientific theorist Mark Changizi shared an article from his newsletter on his Twitter feed, and Twitter censored it. The article was titled "'Why are people embarrassed to admit they have Covid?' a CNN person wonders." The CNN person the headline referred to was Chris Cillizza, and referenced a Twitter thread the commentator had created that pondered the named question. The visible preview of the article that appears on Changizi's Twitter feed shows one of Cillizza's tweets that read: "Except that, with Omicron surging and lots and lots of people now getting it, I've found some of these same people telling me they had it last fall or at the start of the pandemic or whenever." Twitter placed a sensitive content filter over the article preview. 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.

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