Barry Weiss, a former NYTs columnist who published the documents, explains that Twitter secretly prepared blacklists, prevented certain tweets from appearing and even limited the visibility of entire accounts.

Dr. Jay Bhattacharya of Stanford University was secretly blacklisted on Twitter because he said the lockdown would hurt children, Dan Bongino, a right-wing talk show host, was at one point blacklisted for search terms, And in the case of the conservative activist Charlie Kirk - Twitter defined his account as "do not distribute".

REMINDER: Jack Dorsey flatly denied the use of Shadow Banning under oath in Congress