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Shadowbanning silences users without notifying them

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There is a special kind of digital hell where you can scream into the void, but nobody can hear you. Platforms will quietly hide an annoying user's posts from everyone else while letting the user think they are still visible, turning them into a completely ignored digital ghost.

Shadowbanning silences users without notifying them
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