Published in web screenshots internal system Twitter saying that the microblogging service is manipulating the opinion of users, according to respondents RIA Novosti experts.
Screenshots portal has published Motherboard. It follows that for each user apply filters — for example, whether an account is suspended, permanently suspended, or has protected status.
According to the Deputy head of the laboratory of computer forensics, Group-IB Sergey Nikitin, this feature — "the ability to manipulate".
"Indeed, today in the Network appeared the screenshots of the hacked admin panel Twitter employees, of which it became clear that they could censor posts, lower in the search results of the tags and bring in top new. Despite the fact that some of these publications and screenshots have been removed, these facts caused a new wave of questions to Twitter and suspicions of manipulation of public opinion," he said.
The General Director of ANO "Digital platform" Arseny Weltzin agreed Nikitin.
"These factors can apply to specific posts or account. It can be called a promotion or engine pessimizatsiey, but in fact is a manipulation of opinion," he added.
