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Twitter's new visibility labels go live

By Athik Saleh

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New labels

To increase transparency on the platform, Twitter has introduced new labels to show whether the company reduced the visibility of certain tweets,.

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Potential policy violation

The new labels indicate if a tweet's visibility has been limited. They will also show the policy a tweet potentially violates. 

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Public

Initially, the labels are only for tweets that potentially violate Twitter's 'Hateful Conduct Policy.' Authors and users will be able to see the new labels. 

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Previous management

Twitter's previous management used shadowbanning tactics, as revealed in the second part of Twitter Files. Elon Musk has been highly critical of this.

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Tweet level

Twitter's visibility labels will be applied at the tweet level, but concerns remain about how they will affect shadowbanned accounts. 

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