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Sources: Twitter CEO Dick Costolo Secretly Censored Abusive Responses To President Obama
BuzzFeed ^ | August 11, 2016 | Charlie Warzel

Posted on 08/11/2016 10:10:37 AM PDT by C19fan

In 2015, then-Twitter CEO Dick Costolo secretly ordered employees to filter out abusive and hateful replies to President Barack Obama during a Q&A session, sources tell BuzzFeed News. According to these sources, the May 2015 #AskPOTUS town hall came out of Twitter senior leadership’s frustration with the fact that platforms like Reddit had become home to celebrity Q&As.

(Excerpt) Read more at buzzfeed.com ...


TOPICS: Computers/Internet
KEYWORDS: censorship; internet; liberalfascism; media; newmedia; obama; twitter; tyranny

1 posted on 08/11/2016 10:10:37 AM PDT by C19fan
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To: C19fan

Mindless loyalty, typical of the Left.


2 posted on 08/11/2016 10:11:43 AM PDT by Pearls Before Swine
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To: C19fan
CLINTON/CLINTON/DNC DIRTY TRICKS MANIPULATING MEDIA
===========================

DNC directing MSNBC commentary segment to be pulled.

DNC controls the narrative with time-released stories.

DNC complains to Morning Joe producers
daring to mention a rigged system

Politico writer sends stories to the DNC before he sends them to his own editor

DNC discussing their relationship with NBC/MSNBC/CNN and how to get better treatment

DNC Chair Debbie Wasserman Schultz has ‘off the record’ meeting
in Phil Griffin’s office, President of MSNBC.

DNC and Washington Examiner

DNC supplying CNN the very questions they want to be asked in interviews

PROVEN DOUBLE STANDARD: Khizr Khan Receives 50x More Coverage
Than Pat Smith on ABC, CBS, NBC

Top Polling Companies Make Fraud and Outed
For Skewing Polls For Hillary In Massive Trump Hit Job


3 posted on 08/11/2016 10:13:41 AM PDT by Diogenesis ("When a crime is unpunished, the world is unbalanced.")
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To: C19fan

I’m shocked .


4 posted on 08/11/2016 10:16:02 AM PDT by katykelly
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To: C19fan

Capitalist Pig.


5 posted on 08/11/2016 10:43:12 AM PDT by Paladin2 (auto spelchk? BWAhaha2haaa.....I aint't likely fixin' nuttin'. Blame it on the Bossa Nova...)
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To: C19fan

Never mind that, Trump just said something bad, again.


6 posted on 08/11/2016 10:43:57 AM PDT by dfwgator
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7 posted on 08/11/2016 10:45:06 AM PDT by PMAS (All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is that good men do nothing)
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To: C19fan

Wasn’t Facebook caught doing essentially the same?


8 posted on 08/11/2016 10:47:02 AM PDT by daler
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Compilation of CNN Cutting Guests Mics to Protect Hillary Clinton
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3458669/posts


9 posted on 08/11/2016 11:20:08 AM PDT by minnesota_bound
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To: Diogenesis

Many thanks, passing on....


10 posted on 08/11/2016 11:22:53 AM PDT by little jeremiah (Half the truth is often a great lie. B. Franklin)
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To: C19fan

The left has no love at all for the 1st Amendment. It couldn’t be clearer now.


11 posted on 08/11/2016 12:30:20 PM PDT by TigersEye (This is the age of the death of reason and rule of law. Prepare!)
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