<p>Twitter owner <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/elon-musk" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Elon Musk</a> revealed during an interview this week that engineers at the social media company recently discovered a line of code more than decade old that would suppress tweets if they contained specific words.</p>
<p>Musk made the remarks during an interview with <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/babylon-bee">The Babylon Bee</a> published on Twitter on Wednesday. Twitter’s previous censorship of The Babylon Bee was one of the company&#8217;s actions that sparked Musk’s interest in buying Twitter.</p>
<p>&#8220;One of the craziest things you did when you took over Twitter was start releasing the Twitter files,&#8221; Kyle Mann, editor-in-chief of The Babylon Bee, said to Musk. &#8220;Who takes over a company and then says, &#8216;Look, how horrible all this stuff is that&#8217;s going on&#8217;?”</p>
<p>&#8220;If we&#8217;re not going to expose the things that were done wrong, why should people believe us in the future? That&#8217;s why we&#8217;re trying to be as transparent as possible,&#8221; Musk responded. &#8220;Don&#8217;t take my word for it – literally look at the algorithm, you should be able to recreate the results that you see on Twitter using that algorithm.&#8221;</p>
<p>&#8220;So we&#8217;re trying to make sure that everything is brought to light, not just so there&#8217;s no hidden layers or anything,&#8221; Musk added. &#8220;We just discovered last week some hidden layer of censorship that was written in 2012.&#8221;</p>
<p>Musk said that while &#8220;&#8216;censorship&#8217; is probably the wrong word&#8221; to describe the code, Twitter had a list of words it would use to evaluate Tweets.</p>
<p>&#8220;If you put &#8216;suck&#8217; in a tweet, then it does not get amplified on the platform,&#8221; he explained. &#8220;And that was literally code from like 2012. We found this relic of code last week.&#8221;</p>
<p>Musk confirmed the single line of code was being applied to all tweets, noting that there were about a thousand words on the list that, if used in a tweet, would suppress that tweet.</p>
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