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Tried to post a link to a whistleblower doc on a major platform, shadowban hit within 2 hours

Last Tuesday I shared a PDF from a government transparency site to a big social media platform. It was about local corruption, totally verified stuff from a court filing. Within 2 hours my post was invisible to anyone not already following me. I checked with a friend's account and they couldn't see it at all. Anyone else run into this kind of silent suppression on major sites lately?
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roberts.jordan
Guess my 15 minutes of internet fame got cut short by the algorithm's version of a librarian shushing me. I thought I was being a good citizen, turns out the platform just wanted me to go stand in the corner with my PDF. Did you find any workaround that stuck or did you just give up and move platforms entirely?
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ericschmidt
Platforms are definitely getting more aggressive with that kind of thing lately.
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