Friday, July 27, 2018

WOW: MAINSTREAM LIBERAL SITE ADMITS THAT TWITTER IS “SHADOWBANNING” CONSERVATIVES

WOW: Mainstream Liberal Site ADMITS That Twitter Is “Shadowbanning” Conservatives

 July 26, 2018  
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There has been much suspicion that Silicon Valley giant Twitter has been censoring conservative viewpoints on the popular microblogging platform and now it has just been confirmed by the most unusual of sources.
The normally reliably liberal Vice.com just published a bombshell report that revealed that Twitter has indeed been “shadow banning” a number of prominent Republicans including Congressman Matt Gaetz and RNC Chairwoman Ronna McDaniel among others.
The report comes just months before the midterm elections with control of Congress hanging in the balance and is a damning expose on how tech oligarchs like Jack Dorsey who wears his heart on his sleeve when it comes to his preference for leftist ideology presides over a corporation that enjoys a complete monopoly that is rife for abuse and is being used as a thumb on the scale for the Democrats.
Twitter is censoring prominent Republicans and conservatives in the media with a technique known as “shadow banning” that limits how many people are able to see content from the affected accounts, according to a report from a liberal publication.
“The Republican Party’s chair Ronna McDaniel, several conservative Republican Congressmen, and Donald Trump Jr.’s spokesman no longer appear in the auto-populated drop-down search box on Twitter,” VICE News reported on Wednesday. “It’s a shift that diminishes their reach on the platform — and the same one being deployed against prominent racists to limit their visibility.”
The report from VICE News specifically noted that “Democrats are not being ‘shadow banned’ in the same way,” as Republican’s Democratic counterparts are not receiving the same restrictions.
“The notion that social media companies would suppress certain political points of view should concern every American,” McDaniel said in a statement to VICE News. “Twitter owes the public answers to what’s really going on.”
Twitter is limiting the visibility of prominent Republicans in search results — a technique known as “shadow banning” — in what it says is a side effect of its attempts to improve the quality of discourse on the platform.
The Republican Party chair Ronna McDaniel, several conservative Republican congressmen, and Donald Trump Jr.’s spokesman no longer appear in the auto-populated drop-down search box on Twitter, VICE News has learned. It’s a shift that diminishes their reach on the platform — and it’s the same one being deployed against prominent racists to limit their visibility. The profiles continue to appear when conducting a full search, but not in the more convenient and visible drop-down bar. (The accounts appear to also populate if you already follow the person.)
Democrats are not being “shadow banned” in the same way, according to a VICE News review. McDaniel’s counterpart, Democratic Party chair Tom Perez, and liberal members of Congress — including Reps. Maxine Waters, Joe Kennedy III, Keith Ellison, and Mark Pocan — all continue to appear in drop-down search results. Not a single member of the 78-person Progressive Caucus faces the same situation in Twitter’s search.
“The notion that social media companies would suppress certain political points of view should concern every American,” McDaniel told VICE News in a statement. “Twitter owes the public answers to what’s really going on.”
It didn’t take long after the article was published for those who are affected weighed in with their justifiable outrage:
Even President Trump  himself saw the need to weigh in on this brazen and un-American form of political censorship:
The interested parties who will defend Twitter will be quick to point out that it’s a private company and while that may be the case it doesn’t make censorship or shadowbanning Republicans to bestow upon the Democrats an unfair advantage right.
Just look at Facebook whose chickens finally came home to roost on Wednesday following the social network’s own censorship of conservatives. CEO Mark Zuckerberg lost around $17 billion of his personal wealth when the stock crashed and the sound of karma filled the air.
These social media companies have become too powerful and are the primary tools used by millions to communicate so it is imperative that people who have control like @Jack not play a rigged game or they are no better than the foreign interests looking to manipulate our elections.
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