Tesla Workers Say Twitter Shadowbanned Their Union Account: NLRB Charge – VICE

Tesla CEO Elon Musk leaves the Phillip Burton Federal Building on January 24, 2023 in San Francisco, California. (Photo by Justin Sullivan / Getty Images)Tesla workers are claiming that their new union’s Twitter account was shadowbanned, according to a National Labor Review Board charge filed on Friday.Autopilot workers at the Buffalo Gigafactory 2 facility went public with a campaign to form a union on Feb. 14. But by the next day, the workers found that their account had been shadowbanned—meaning it doesn’t appear in Twitter’s search function if you type out either the account’s handle or display name. Elon Musk serves as the CEO at both Tesla and Twitter, and he is named in the NLRB charge.“In February 2023, immediately following workers announcing a union campaign at the Tesla Gigafactory 2 facility, the above-named employer, through CEO Elon Musk and/or his agents and representatives, caused the Union’s Twitter account (@united_tesla) to be shadow banned from the Twitter platform,” said the NLRB filing from Workers United, the union backing pro-union Tesla employees at the Buffalo facility. “The shadow ban caused the Union’s account to be less accessible and functionally hidden from workers and the public on Twitter, thereby stopping or discouraging protected concerted
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