by Corinne Weaver and Alec Schemmel
Big Tech has caused serious damage to President Donald Trump’s ability to be heard on social media.
Twitter and Facebook have censored the president’s social media accounts and the accounts belonging to his re-election campaign at least 65 times. In contrast, the companies have not censored former Vice President and Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden and his campaign accounts. At all.
Twitter composes the bulk of the problem, with 98 percent of all the instances of censorship. It shouldn’t come as a surprise that Twitter has made the decision to censor major headlines about the Biden family, particularly when it came to the New York Post’s story about Hunter Biden’s dealings with Ukraine.
The Media Research Center’s Techwatch department analyzed two years of social media posts from Trump, Biden, and their respective campaigns. The analysis did not include any ads from PACs or super PACs that had made ads in favor of either candidate. It also focused on social media posts, not paid advertisements, from the campaigns. These numbers were collected from between May 2018 to October 16, 2020.
In addition, Twitter and Facebook employees have funneled money into Democrat campaigns. In a previous study released by MRC Business, the numbers showed that Facebook and Twitter had given over 90 percent of their political contributions to Democrats in 2020.
Twitter has been far and away the biggest offender, labeling, fact-checking, and removing Trump’s tweets and the tweets from his campaign accounts 64 times since the president’s election. Tweets about the president’s concern over mail-in voting, COVID-19, and the Black Lives Matter protests have been given “public interest notices.”
Videos retweeted by the president depicting a satirical version of Biden walking on stage to the song “F*** Tha Police” have been deleted as well, after a fact-check from Poynter Institute’s PolitiFact. The actual video showed Biden playing the song “Despacito.”
Twitter fired first in the war between Trump and Big Tech when it completely deleted three tweets from the president on July 28, 2020. It removed tweets about the drug hydroxychloroquine.
Memes apparently are not allowed on the president’s account either. A meme showing Trump saying “in reality, they’re not after me. They’re after you” was removed from his June 30 tweet. Meme videos and meme creators who make pro-Trump content have suffered at the hands of Twitter. One instance is Carpe Donktum, the meme creator who made a video mocking the Democrats’ reaction to the 2019 State of the Union address. The video, retweeted by Trump, was removed after a copyright complaint. Donktum, whose real name is Logan Cook, was also removed in June 2020 after Trump had tweeted another one of his videos showing two toddlers hugging each other, with fake CNN chyrons at the bottom.
This censorship goes back as far as the beginning of the Trump presidency. A rogue Twitter employee in 2017 deactivated Trump’s account on his last day at work, leaving it offline for 11 minutes. Trump’s two tweets of Drudge headlines in 2018 were given the “sensitive content” filter over top of the tweets.
Users who have been retweeted by Trump play a game of censorship roulette as well. According to the Daily Beast, “Nearly 10 percent of the unverified accounts retweeted by President Trump since his inauguration are currently suspended from Twitter for various violations of the platform’s policies.” One user was quoted in the Daily Beast as saying, “Twitter’s always been fair to me, until the president of the United States retweeted me.” Seventeen accounts at least have been suspended since Trump’s inauguration.
Totalitarian regimes censor content. This is where the left wing media is headed. Democrats demonstrate they hate this country so much they are all for turning our government into a police state.
Again, when I posted a story about HCQ, I got THREE fact checks (none of which actually addressed the content of the post) but when I, as an experiment, posted CNN’s report of the Lancet “study” that was later totally proven to be lies and bunk, NO fact checks. Yeah, that’s Facebook “fact checking” for you. They allow liberal lies but suppress any facts that damage Democrats.
Josh Hawley on Jack Dorsey: ‘Nothing like lying under oath’
https://twitter.com/prageru/status/1321482057113980928?s=21
Possibly because Biden doesn’t repeatedly post patent bullsheet?
@Greg:
You mean like how Biden attended college on a full scholarship, or how he was top of his class, or how he attended a HBCU, or how he whipped Con-Pop’s ass?
@retire05, #5:
No, that is not what I mean. I mean genuinely dangerous, self-serving b.s. like the following:
@Greg:
No, of course it isn’t. Biden being a demented liar isn’t what you meant. You ignore it. You don’t think someone that lies just as naturally as breathing is dangerous. Someone that partners with is son to steal laundered US aid is not dangerous, either. Someone that has compromised themselves with three of our most dangerous adversaries is not dangerous, in your view.
Basically, you don’t know WHAT the hell you think. You just do what the liberal ideology tells you to do.
November 6, 2020 – Twitter permanently suspends Steve Bannon account after talk of beheading
If posts are being flagged or accounts removed, maybe we should carefully consider what was said that produced that result before condemning the result as censorship.
@Greg: Where did Bannon say he was going to behead anyone?