Today, some tweets appearing on Twitter are accompanied by the following warning:
I did a search on Twitter for #DrudgeReport and found several (but not all) tweets mentioning #DrudgeReport had this warning. Drudge Report is a right leaning news aggregator that specializes, typically, in using inflammatory headlines to hook readers.
A search for #DrudgeReport using the “Latest” option presents this:
That is weird – it appears Twitter is fully censoring searches for items related to Drudge Report.
A search for #InfoWars for tweets related to the InfoWars conspiracy theorist displays tweets, without warnings.
A search for proven fake news service #OccupyDemocrats displays a long list of tweets, without warnings.
The algorithm used by Twitter is not clear to the user –  all we can tell at this point is that Twitter has censored Drudge Report.
Twitter, of course, like Facebook, is an unreliable source for any sort of information. Yet Twitter does not display a warning on itself, nor does it display a warning regarding links to Facebook.
Social media, as this blog has extensively documented, is a frictionless platform for the spread of propaganda. This blog, at times, intentionally searches for propaganda on social media to better understand how it works. By establishing a censorship program, Twitter blocks research into the use of their platform for propaganda messaging. Twitter is therefore no longer an information conduit but a publisher that uses censorship to control messaging.  In the blink of an eye, Twitter is itself an official propaganda publisher.
Rather than allow users to think for themselves, Twitter now does the thinking for you and is choosing what you are readily able to see or not see. Do you want to outsource your thinking to an unreliable social media propaganda platform?