“I got shadowbanned,” Jocko Willink, retired Navy SEAL and author, said in a clip from his Jocko Underground podcast published on Monday. He said his months-long shadowbanning — which he notes had since been reversed — on an unspecified “social media” platform was imposed after making the Biden administration “look like idiots” in relation to the White House’s management of withdrawing U.S. forces from Afghanistan.
“I ended up getting shadowbanned on social media — on a specific social media platform,” Willink stated, adding that he was unaware of his profile being shadowbanned for some time. He continued, “It was actually for a longer period of time than I initially thought.
Willink said his profile was suppressed by the platform’s autocompletion recommendations.
He remarked, “I finally started getting up a couple people sending me videos of them searching for my name; or scrolling through their timeline, and I’m not in it, and they follow me;…
