Social media companies were part of what Time magazine called “an extraordinary shadow effort” whose objective was to prevent Donald Trump from being reelected in 2020. Two years later, and surely emboldened by their success, they are back, their sights set on throwing the midterm elections to the Democrats.
There can be no doubt that social media is aligned with the left in a political cleansing of Republican candidates and voters. According to the Time article, The Secret History of the Shadow Campaign That Saved the 2020 Election, “a well-funded cabal of powerful people” “successfully pressured social media companies to take a harder line against disinformation and used data-driven strategies to fight viral smears.”
Of course “disinformation” and “viral smears” were anything that hurt Democrats and helped Republicans. Truth was never a consideration.
And neither is it today.
“Two of the leading platforms responsible for censoring the bombshell New York Post Hunter Biden scandal stories before the 2020 presidential election are gearing up to censor free speech to combat so-called ‘misinformation’ ahead of the 2022 midterm elections,” the Media Research Center reported last week.
According to the MRC account, Facebook’s parent company Meta, Instagram, WhatsApp, and Twitter have “pledged to target ‘misleading narratives’ by suppressing election content they deem to be false, misleading, or dangerous.”
Meta has publicly acknowledged that it’s fielding a “dedicated team focused on the 2022 midterms to help combat election and voter interference,” and even indicated, says the MRC, “that government may even collude with the platform in censoring content.”
This conduct should be unprecedented in our republic. But it’s not. Since Joe Biden has occupied the White House, Democrats, who have tightly wrapped themselves around levers of power, have used private companies as government agents to censor speech they don’t like, as well as any discussion that threatens their plans to accumulate ever more political power.
In an admission that should have fueled widespread outrage, then-White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki said last summer “we’re flagging problematic posts for Facebook.” It turns out that the White House staff had been – and likely still is – “in regular touch” with social media platforms regarding posts about the coronavirus outbreak.
Earlier in 2021, congressional Democrats cornered executives communications giants such as Comcast and AT&T in a House Energy and Commerce Committee hearing and demanded to know what they were going to do about “the spread of dangerous misinformation.” This is not OK.
Rather than expose the collusion, the legacy media have instead gone along with the government’s agenda. The press doesn’t see another Watergate to be investigated, no gross violations of the First Amendment whose principles it claims to hold dear. It sees a government actively trying to wreck a political opposition that’s not in power in hopes that that opposition will never again put a candidate in the White House or hold a majority in either chamber of Congress.
When private companies act as government assets, they should be subject to the same consequences that the government is when it violates First Amendment rights. Civil rights attorneys should file lawsuits and the courts are obligated to sanction the offenders. The Democrats and their private-sector allies are playing a dangerous game. If they’re not stopped, there’s little to prevent them from not just dominating the federal government, but actually tyrannizing the opposition.
— Written by the I&I Editorial Board
Using these vague “policy violations,” Google is now threatening to demonetize us. It’s part of Big Tech’s effort to silence conservative voices.
The more concerning election problem is the machines. Once your ballot goes into that tabulator there is no chain of custody and you cannot validate how that tabulator voted for you. Tabulators are less secure than your laptop. The main reason we found out about the machine cheats is that Trump was so overwhelmingly popular that he broke the algorithms and they were forced to take their cheat too far. That is why they had to stop the counts – to recalibrate the cheat.
Vote in person on election day. Make it harder for them to cheat,
The solution is to make big tech “Common Carriers” and they would have to present balancing opinions carrying both side of an issue.
I suspect that a lot of that money Biden is supposedly sending to the Ukraine is actually being used to try and steal the mid-terms!
Can anyone explain why we are fighting Putin’s Russia ? His policy of shutting down and incarcerating all opposition to his government is EXACTLY what this US regime is doing . The Biden junta should be sitting at his feet, learning from the master, just as the Grand Mufti of Jerusalem did, Hitler.Not that they have much to learn.
20/20 Vision by I&I Editors about the Media Masters.
Our citizens have yet to realize that the alphabet Media is a government network funded by business advertising. The proof is displayed daily in the political bias on news networks.
The quirk about this Media Con-glomerate is that they prefer political propaganda over presenting product preferences. This subtle twist of preferring politics over products doesn’t hide the Media Master’s mission as snakes with a gator face that is solely focused on the domination of society.