UPDATE: I'm back to a complete shadowban...I don't get it. People like Sarah Jeong and their bigoted tweets are protected, pedophilia themed tweets from James Gunn are protected, but people like me who follow all the rules are censored. Everything is so backwards....praying for this censorshipt to backfire in ways no one could anticipate....sigh...

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UPDATE: Since I posted this a little while ago Twitter has returned my status to only having the QFD ban....sigh
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UPDATE: The photo up above on the left was taken the day I 1st reported on this last week. As you can see on the bottom the QFD filter was/is turned on for me. That is how it has looked everyday up until today. Today I noticed they have  censored me even more by shadowbanning me in the search results and also a thread ban on top of the QFD filter still turned on. 

What happened? I quote tweeted a @MarkDice tweet who was in conversation with Jack Dorsey the CEO of twitter. ....below is what I said along with Mark's tweet.....

"This is key....we are being shadowbanned through no fault of our own...if @JACK wanted to improve Twitter ASAP he would just remove the QFD which is not really about quality
 ❌yvonne burton added,
Mark Dice @MarkDice
Replying to @MarkDice @jack
I've been blocked by accounts I've never even tweeted to, simply because I'm on some block list. Don't you see how this can unfairly affect an account, falsely labeling it a 'bad actor' because it's on some list someone made up even though it hadn't interacted with the blockers?​"

I was hoping all of the hoopla about the "quality filter" would ease up on conservatives for a little while. Guess not. Yesterday we learned Jack was allowing 2 biased academics who think Trump is a Nazi contribute to improving the conversation on Twitter. Go figure....

I guess that should have been my 1st sign that Twitter doesn't want to fix this problem and they are pretty in your face about it. All I wanted Jack to do was remove the QFD filter from my account because it's turned on through no fault of my own. 

I don't know where all of this is headed but the truth will out....eventually. You can only quash our voices for so long...something's gotta give...and I was hoping Twitter would improve not buckle down on the unfairness of their censorship. 

Please share this with your friends and follow me on Twitter though if you want to see my tweets you will have to go directly to my account even if you follow me. Twitter has decided that you need to be protected from my thoughts....don't let Jack Dorsey's bullying win...follow me @_yvonneburton.


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​UPDATE: From The Daily Caller "Twitter, in May, began phasing in a change to its algorithm to suppress Twitter users who the company said stop short of violating Twitter’s terms of service, but are still considered harmful to “healthy conversation.” The new algorithm, Twitter said, would discriminate against those “bad-faith actors” by hiding their visibility in conversations and searches."

Technically Twitter is not censoring conservatives but many wonder if the system they created in which the number of people who have blocked you can be abused by "bad faith actors" who send out mass block lists to their users that can turn on the QFD filter whether or not you deserve it was an intentional act by Twitter? This system gives them plausible deniability. It's sad because people who don't violate the rules of Twitter are being shadowbanned by the left who doesn't want to debate in the arena of ideas because they can't win there. They only win when they shut down debate.

Twitter's stock is down is down 19% right now the day after Facebook lost over 120 billion yesterday. I'm not saying their censorship is responsible for this but it certainly isn't helping. I don't know how they fix this but as long as accounts can get shadowbanned even when they don't deserve it, it's a platform that is benefiting the left more than the right and that's happening right before the midterm elections. Coinicidence? I don't think so......

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On July 18th I posted this Twitter's Quality Filter Is Shadow Banning Small Accounts To Reduce Outreach of the Big Ones? UPDATE: I was right....Now that Twitter is coming under fire for the obvious shadow banning of conservatives in their search results people are becoming more aware of this so called Quality Filter.

Twitter testifying in Congress this past week on the censorship of conservatives at the same time this issue was coming to light is in my opinion more evidence of divine intervention that we have been experiencing for the last 2 years. 

I still stand by my hypothesis that this Quality Filter focuses on smaller but somewhat influential accounts and leaves the big fish accounts alone. I agreed that big fish accounts like Mike Cernvoich and Donald Trump accounts were being shadow banned when you search for them but the QFD filter was never put on them in the 1st place. 

When I wrote my 1st post on this I looked up the following and none had the QFD filter on their accounts....

POTUS                           23.6  Million       :No QFD 
Paul Joseph Watson 880k Followers: No QFD
MikeCernovich           419K Followers: No QFD
Jack Posobiec            345k  Followers: No QFD
Ali                                   55 K  Followers: No QFD

People like Laura Loomer, who in my book is one of the bigger fish accounts, did have and still does have a QFD filter on her account but she was the only big fish account I could find that had the filter on.

Today it looks like Twitter is no longer censoring conservatives in the search results but don't confuse this with the QFD filter which was never on the bigger names like Mike Cernovich and Jack Posobiec. The QFD filter is still on me and other accounts I posted on the 18th....

Yvonne Burton          7  K    Followers: QFD Shadow Banned
Dr. Jane Ruby           16 K    Followers: QFD Shadow Banned
Cari Kelemen            27 K    Followers: QFD Shadow Banned
​Scooter Downey        1 K    Followers: QFD Shadow Banned

​So, people will definitely be able to find people easier now that the search results shadowban is lifted but the QFD filter is still in use and being used on people that follow the bigger accounts and as long as that is in use, it will necessarily reduce the outreach of those accounts and in turn reduce the engagement numbers of the big accounts.

Things that will turn on the QFD...

• If you have been blocked by a large number of people
• If you follow people that are blocked by a large number of people
• If a large number of people complain about you and report you...even if not successful

As you can see, the quality filter is not really about quality, and the left is using it as a tactic to get people shadow banned.

Random trivia....here is a list of names that are not shadow banned....go ahead check for yourself...

James Gunn
Patton Oswalt
Michael Ian Black
Lloyd Kaufman

How does Twitter keep the big follower accounts from having the QFD filter turned on them? Simple. There are fewer of them than there are of us. They can just simply pull up their account and remove the filter if it gets automatically turned on. By going after all of their followers though, they have effectively reduced the outreach of us all.

The QFD filter is for the people who follow Infowars and Mike Cernovich and any other massively influential twitter accounts on the conservative side, not for the big followers accounts themselves. Until they get rid of this "quality" filter, mass censoring will remain in place and engagement levels will be drastically reduced.

And if you just happen to be someone who thinks child rape is funny? Well you are protected too.

Twitter has some explaining to do.

UPDATE: Chris Pratt and Zoe Saldana have made their bed with the devil and sided with James Gunn....make no mistake about it....Disney is itching to rehire James Gunn and word is that they will do just that in a few hours. ...The only thing that might stop them is if they see that we aren't just a bunch of bots on twitter and that there is real opposition to this monster in the heartland. 

If you haven't signed this petition I hope you will do so now....we need 50k in the next few hours...the chances of that happening are slim but stranger things have happened. We are in a spiritual battle....ask yourself now....whose side are you on?

Ephesians 6: 12
12 For we wrestle not against flesh and [t]blood, but against [u]principalities, against powers, and against the worldly governors, the princes of the darkness of this world, against spiritual wickedness, which are in the high places.


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By now all of you know about Disney Director James Gunn being fired over pedophilia/child porn related tweets.

What's interesting now is how the MSM is reporting this and how some people out there are defending this evil bastard. People like Ben Shapiro, Glenn Beck and Erick Erickson....gee I see a pattern here....the same people who would have given us Hillary are defending this creep. 

Read the tweets yourself and decide whether or not you want to defend him......

This issue is black and white. There is no gray area. You are either for protecting the children or you are pro-pedophilia. If you are a talking head like Ben Shapiro and defending James Gunn, you should never be trusted again. 

If you are a media organization reporting on this by attempting to minimize his tweets by not reporting them or slandering Mike Cernovich and Jack Posobiec for exposing this garbage then you should also never be trusted again. If any MSM reports Jack and Mike as being far-right, alt right, conspiracy theorists, pizzagate pushers, or anything else to negatively describe these patriots then you too should never be trusted again.

There's a line drawn in the sand and we all need to know which side you are on so I'm making a couple of lists. One for media and others for people like Ben Shapiro.

MSM Pro-pedophilia.....

• The Daily Beast

List of people supporting pro-pedophilia tweets by James Gunn.....I am focusing mainly on the Never Trump people lest you get the hare-brained idea to ever trust them again after being Never Trump....
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• Ben Freaking Shapiro....Ben still has a huge following but he's doing everything in his power to lose them

I will continue updating this list as more information comes in.....

UPDATE: One day after I posted this Zerohedge came out with this  Twitter Caught Censoring Conservative Journalists With Site-Wide Shadowbans 

"While the filters have been around since August 2016 and were supercharged in May, Twitter's aggressive censorship of conservative accounts was noticed Thursday afternoon by the Daily Wire's Ryan Saavedra, after he said he saw reduced activity following a viral tweet with 3.85 million views in which Democratic Rep. Maxine Waters (CA) calls for attacks on members of the Trump administration. In short order, a flood of influential conservative Twitter users discovered they were shadowbanned also using an account checking tool at shadowban.eu."

Turns out I was right.......

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I have a hypothesis about Twitter's Quality Filter or what they call QFD.

I think most of us have noticed our analytics showing drastic declines in overall engagement....Tweet counts, retweet numbers, follower numbers  declining and generally not allowed to go above a certain number. All of the social media companies are talking about improving their sites by properly dealing with hate speech, fake news, and so called trolls. Most of them have enacted new algorithms this year and strangely enough most conservatives, especially the big fish accounts like Infowars and Donald Trump, have seen their engagement numbers plummet. As we speak these companies are being grilled by Congress on what appears to us as stealth censorship but of course they are all denying it and blaming it on the algorithms.

They aren't lying, the blame is mostly with the algorithms....created by their mostly liberal humans.

Now on to my hypothesis.

I believe Twitter is slowing down the engagement levels of most conservative accounts by using their quality filter to shadow ban many moderate to somewhat influential accounts while leaving the big fish accounts like Infowars alone. By interfering with the smaller accounts outreach levels they effectively stifle the reach of the bigger fish accounts which in turn stifles the conservative message on twitter.

Twitter's new "quality filter" started in March. People started noticing their numbers falling shortly after. Well, conservatives that is. Twitter’s support page explains that the Quality Filter “filters low-quality content from your notifications”. Who gets to decide what is or isn't low quality? Well twitter humans  do who in turn rig the algorithms. Low quality = unapproved groupthink.

I found this gentleman on Twitter who created an open source test to see if quality filter is effecting you. I entered my name and found that it is definitely effecting me. I decided to check some of my favorite accounts like Mike Cernovich, Jack Posobiec, Ali, and Paul Joseph Watson. None of them show this filter affecting them. 

Paul Joseph Watson of @Infowars has over 800,000 followers and I know his numbers for Youtube views has experienced drastic declines. Whenever Paul releases a new video it becomes his pinned tweet. Twitter used to be a great generator of traffic for your videos or blog posts. What happens when PJW does what he always does? If you go straight to  his timeline you will see he pinned tweet and watch his video. But, if you were not a follower and might have happened upon his tweet by many of his followers who RT everything he tweets, you aren't going to see it.

Twitter is stifling the conservative message by shadowbanning not the most influential accounts but instead stifling their followers who don't have as big of a platform to bring attention to the problem. I used to routinely get between one million and 2 million tweet impressions every month and my follower count was always rising. My impressions now linger around six hundred thousand and my follower count won't seem to rise above 7770 and if it does it won't stay above that number very long. 

People like Mike Cernovich and PJW impressions are in the tens of millions. The reason they are able to reach so many is because of those of us with smaller but very productive accounts that generate more impressions than you're average user. I have been retweeted by Mike and Jack several times and while it does boost my outreach I have noticed their RT's don't create nearly as much traffic as they have in the past. 



POTUS                           23.6  Million       :No QFD 
Paul Joseph Watson 880k Followers: No QFD
MikeCernovich           419K Followers: No QFD
Jack Posobiec            345k  Followers: No QFD
Ali                                   55 K  Followers: No QFD

Yvonne Burton          7  K    Followers: QFD Shadow Banned
Dr. Jane Ruby           16 K    Followers: QFD Shadow Banned
Cari Kelemen            27 K    Followers: QFD Shadow Banned
​Scooter Downey        1 K    Followers: QFD Shadow Banned

I posted a few pics of what I found below but what I noticed is every big name I entered was not being effected by the quality filter but when I put in smaller accounts like mine that have several thousand followers we are all being affected by the filter. By silencing us, they are effectively lowering the outreach for the biggest fish accounts. Diabolical isn't it?

You try it. I admit I could be all wrong...it's just a hypothesis. ​

I'm currently reading Scott Adam's book How to Fail at Almost Everything and Still Win Big. I highly recommend it.

​I'm currently on the chapter called The Math of Success.....

"The best way to increase your odds of success- in a way that might look like luck to others- is to systematically become good , but not amazing, at the types of skills that work well together and are highly useful for just about any job."

There are several sub-headings in this chapter regarding what he thinks the skills are you need to succeed. I'm focusing here on Psychology.

"Psychology is embedded in everything we do"

After the election of 2016, does anyone doubt that? If you follow Scott Adams on Twitter you know that President Trump is perhaps one of the best master persuaders of all time and you also know at some point in Hillary's campaign she hired Robert Cialidini who wrote Influence: The Psychology of Persuasion. Her persuasion game went from zero to so much better that it was obvious she had outside help giving her some good advice. Thankfully she was the worst candidate in presidential history, but I digress....

A lot of us also learned about how the MSM is basically one big Pysops operation. We knew they were fake news. We knew they minimized things that hurt the democrats and maximized things that helped them but I didn't really understand how deep the rabbit hole goes.

Everything put before us is one big Pysops operation and to defeat and conquer those perpetrating this sham, you have to understand Psychology. Scott Adam's is writing about this to give you advice to have success everywhere in life. I'm writing about this because those in the MAGA movement need to start honing their skills for 4th Generation Warfare because the frontlines of this war, the information war, are everywhere.

In this part of the book about Psychology Scott Adams has a list of about 200 psychological and cognitive traps that we can fall prey to. He stresses that Psychology should be a lifelong study so don't get overwhelmed thinking you have to learn all of this today. Google these terms, your lifelong study of this is free. What do you have to lose?

I'm starting with the A's and then working my way through but this one, Backfire Effect, jumped out at me.

​Backfire Effect - The backfire effect occurs when, in the face of contradictory evidence, established beliefs do not change but actually get stronger.

All of those arguments you get in on Facebook and Twitter? Just Stop. You aren't changing anyone's mind and you are wasting precious time. So many of these people on social media are paid trolls hired to distract you and/or waste your time. Have conversations surely but the minute you realize the other person is not really here to engage productively just ignore them or block them.

We have all seen how some of the bigger accounts on Twitter like Mike Cernovich, Jack Posobiec, Ali, and of course Scott Adams have had real world effects using the power of persuasion.Would you mind spending a few minutes out of your day every day learning how you too can persuade people? We would all benefit from this so just a few tips that I think can help yo get better at the social media game if your purpose is to change hearts and minds and not just win arguments or zing people.....

• People don't want to seem wrong or stupid...so don't tell them they are...BE NICE
• Ask questions....not snarky questions...ones that make people think...who knows how many you inspire to research a topic with the idea of proving you wrong only for them to have an oh sh!t moment and realize they were wrong. You may never hear from the again but you just might have changed someones mind.
• Show them visually the contradictions of the topic/Optics matter whether they will admit the contradictions or not...who you gonna believe me or your lying eyes?
• Find a way to show them something that benefits them/Everything is not a zero sum game...

​There are other tips...I am still learning and will update this post with what I have learned but basically you will catch more flies with honey...so stop trying to zing everyone and work at trying to persuade and influence me. 

​We all want to live in a world more peaceful than it's been ....don't we?

Ben Shapiro is known for this worn out phrase facts don't care about your feelings but I say feelings don't care about your facts so learn how to persuade people if you want to win big.

Under God, INDIVISIBLE - "The Lamb's Agenda" -Rev. Samuel Rodriguez "For every devil that rises up against us there is a mightier God that will rise up for us...Behold the Lamb!"

"When I wake up in the morning I don't see a Hispanic White Spanish or Asian Charismatic or Automatic...I am first and foremost a Child of God...I am a believer"