Twitter has long been accused of censoring conservatives.
Some of the right’s most prominent voices have either been suspended or mysteriously stripped of followers. In a video tweeted Friday by user @RightlyNews, a tweet by @realDonaldTrump ‘unliked’ itself after the user ‘liked’ the tweet by clicking the heart button. Strangely, the user clicked ‘like’ on two prior tweets by @AmericanVoterUS and @FoxNews with no ‘unlike’ issues. The user ‘liked’ President Trump’s tweet a total of four times and it was ‘unliked’ four times. After the third time clicking ‘like’ on President Trump’s tweet, the user moved on to ‘like’ a tweet by the AP and it went off without any issues.
Hey @Twitter, why won't you let me support my President? I'm furious. This is at least the 50th time this has happened… #TwitterCensorship pic.twitter.com/isrmjvrBLr
— RIGHTLY NΞWS (@RightlyNews) July 28, 2017
The isn’t the first time Twitter has silenced Conservative voices on the social media platform.
The Hill reports:
Earlier this year, controversial Breitbart News columnist Milo Yiannopoulos reported claims that the company’s management was subtly censoring “populist conservative … cultural libertarians, and other anti-PC dissidents” by subjecting them to “shadowbanning” so that most of their tweets did not show up in their followers’ Twitter feeds.
In July, Yiannopoulos himself was permanently banned from Twitter, after several suspensions, for allegedly inciting racist harassment against African-American comedienne and Ghostbusters star Leslie Jones.
Many commentators, both conservative and liberal, saw this as a disturbing move to stifle unpopular speech, particularly since no specific instances of instigation were cited. However, Yiannopoulos may have crossed the line when, in the middle of troll attacks on Jones, he tweeted fake screenshots of two supposed racist tweets by her.
While Yiannopoulos is a notorious provocateur with a trollish history, Twitter’s hammer has been brought down on other notable right-of-center users.
Last month, Glenn Reynolds, the University of Tennessee law professor and Instapundit blogger, was suspended for tweeting a news story about anti-police brutality protesters stopping traffic on a bridge and surrounding vehicles with the comment, “Run them down.”
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