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Shadowbanned for Linking to the Parliamentary Lobby Register

This morning I posted on X pointing to Germany’s public parliamentary lobby register.

The content: HateAid submitted a four-page draft law to the Federal Ministry of Justice on February 6, 2026 — documented, publicly accessible, no interpretation required. A few weeks later, Justice Minister Hubig announced exactly this law in an interview with Der Spiegel.

No insults. No false claims. A primary source.

The Result
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X flagged my account with a “platform manipulation” label. Reach is now restricted — excluded from recommendations, trends, and reply notifications.

30 minutes after the post, the label appeared. The algorithm decided: lobby register links are suspicious.

What This Shows
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Vague opinions pass through. Documented facts get flagged. The more precise the content, the higher the risk — not because it’s wrong, but because it’s inconvenient.

HateAid has been lobbying for exactly the laws that would force platforms like X to restrict content. A link documenting this triggers the algorithm automatically.

This is not a mistake. This is the system working as intended.

What Remains
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elizaonsteroids.org has no algorithm standing between the text and the reader. No NGO writing draft laws to silence inconvenient voices. No invisible walls.

Just articles. Sources. And the question: who writes the rules?


Source: Lobby Register of the German Bundestag — HateAid, entry dated 06.02.2026

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