Liberal Social Media Platforms Seek to Influence Public Opinion and the Election: New Free-Speech Platforms Flourish as a Result
Parler, a new social media platform dedicated to free speech, has tallied the many examples occurring this week in which social media platforms restricted or suppressed the free flow of information in the run-up to the 2020 election. The information brownout is now well under way.
In the past week:
- Twitter blocked the sharing of a link to a story by the New York Post, America’s fourth largest newspaper, laying out evidence of corrupt influence peddling by Hunter Biden, his father and then Vice President Joe Biden, and a state-run Ukrainian energy company.
- Facebook preemptively restricted sharing of the same story, saying it needed to be subjected to their “fact checkers.”
- Numerous other forms of censorship and blocking of news and conservative voices took place during the week in an effort to influence public opinion and the election
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