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shadowbans

shadowbans is the third-person singular simple present indicative of shadowban.

shadowbans is the plural 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 shadowbans

What is shadowbans the third-person singular simple present indicative of?
Shadowbans is the third-person singular simple present indicative of shadowban.

Words near shadowbans in the dictionary

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

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Adapted from Wiktionary: shadowbans (page history and authors); shadowban (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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