A recent study by the leftist website VICE News found that Twitter is censoring top pro-Trump lawmakers.
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Twitter is targeting pro-Trump Republican lawmakers Matt Gaetz, Devin Nunes, Mark Meadows, Jim Jordan and John Ratcliffe with the same shadowbanning technique.
Twitter is also censoring prominent pro-Trump accounts including: Mike Cernovich, Jack Posobiec, Paul Joseph Watson, TGP’s Jim Hoft, TGP’s Cassandra Fairbanks, TGP’s Lucian Wintrich, TGP’s Cristina Laila and Laura Loomer among others.
House Intel Committee Chair Devin Nunes told FBN host Maria Bartiromo in July that the House is looking at legal remedies to deal with Twitter’s censorship of conservative voices.
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Now that Congress threatened to take action against the social media giant CEO Jack Dorsey went on with Sean Hannity today to defend his company.
Sean Hannity asked Jack Dorsey if Twitter shadow-banned conservatives.
Here is Jack’s response:
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“We do not shadow ban according to political ideology, viewpoint or content, period. Every model we have on the network is really looking at behaviors on the network.
We take those behaviors as signals evolve minute by minute, hour by hour.”
In an undercover investigation in January 2018, James O’Keefe and Project Veritas revealed eight current and former Twitter employees are on camera explaining steps the social media giant is taking to censor political content that they don’t like.
