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shadowbanning

shadowbanning is the present participle and gerund of shadowban.

Meaning of shadowban

Verb

shadowban (third-person singular simple present shadowbans, present participle shadowbanning, simple past and past participle shadowbanned)

  1. (Internet, transitive) To ban a user from a community without their knowledge, allowing them to continue reading and commenting, but rendering their contributions invisible or less visible to other users.
    • On Wednesday a Vice News story reported that some senior Republican officials were not visible in automatic search results. Vice framed this as “shadow banning” without providing any evidence that it was deliberate.2018 July 27, Jason Wilson, “What is 'shadow banning', and why did Trump tweet about it?”, in The Guardian, archived from the original on 19 Apr 2019
  2. (Internet, transitive) To filter out results without the publisher's knowledge.

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Questions about shadowbanning

What is shadowbanning the present participle and gerund of?
Shadowbanning is the present participle and gerund of shadowban.

Words near shadowbanning in the dictionary

  1. shadowable
  2. Shadowbae
  3. shadowban
  4. shadowband
  5. shadowbanned
  6. shadowbanning
  7. shadowbans
  8. shadowbox
  9. shadowboxed
  10. shadowboxer
  11. shadowboxers

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