Big Tech censors Biden critics more than 600 times: study
IOver a two-year period, Big Tech censored criticism of President Joe Biden 646 times.
Censored cases, including deleted social media accounts or posts and those given “warning labels” that prevented people from sharing or commenting, were counted between March 2020 and March 2022 by the Free Speech America’s Media Research Center.
Of the 646 cases, 140 concerned the New York Post history of Hunter Biden’s laptop, with Twitter being the most aggressive censor.
The largest category of censored cases, however, included 232 posts that attempted to blast Biden’s manipulation of women and children.
One example came from Facebook, which allegedly deleted a user’s post for violating Community Standards on “nudity or sexual activity”.
The post claimed to show three photos of Biden kissing a little girl, believed to be his granddaughter, on the lips with the caption: “Find someone who kisses you like Joe Biden kisses his granddaughter.”
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MRC also noted that Big Tech attacked posts quoting Biden’s own words. One example cited was from Instagram removing a conservative outlet Breaking down the 911s post quoting Biden on COVID-19 vaccines saying, “Freedom! … I have the freedom to kill you with my COVID. No, I mean come on! Freedom?!” A screenshot from Instagram shows the post was removed for encouraging “violence and incitement”.
Other censures included posts involving negative coverage of Biden regarding energy policy or rising inflation.
MRC’s CensorTrack team has recorded over 3,600 global censorship cases against conservative media outlets, individuals or posts across multiple social media platforms. Overall, censored topics included discussion of elections, COVID-19, climate change, and race.
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Such censorship reports come as Tesla and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk has slammed social media censorship, offering to buy Twitter for $43 billion and pledging to take the company private so it can serve as an “inclusive arena for free speech” in which people “can freely express themselves within the bounds of the law”.