Posted on 05/27/2020 2:24:50 PM PDT by Kaslin
Anti-Trump tweets by Yoel Roth, Twitter’s Head of Site Integrity since July 2018, are just the latest example of the extreme leftward slant and double standards held by those at the helm of Silicon Valley social media giants.
The New York Post’s Jon Levine resurfaced tweets written by Roth in 2016 and 2017, not only poking fun at conservative leaders but also mocking the Americans who make up the geographic majority of the country.
“I’m just saying, we fly over those states that voter for a racist tangerine for a reason,” the Twitter executive wrote the night of the 2016 election.
Roth called Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell a “bag of farts” in one tweet, and expressed fear over “actual nazis in the White House” in another.
“He leads the teams responsible for developing and enforcing Twitter’s rules” pic.twitter.com/OdBTqlInDZ
— Jon Levine (@LevineJonathan) May 27, 2020
Roth is free to express his own political views of course, however biased they may be. But as Levine points out, Roth’s job description means he “leads the teams responsible for developing and enforcing Twitter’s rules.” It’s no secret that Roth and other social media enforcers have a left-leaning bent. That’s why it’s no surprise that we’re continuing to see increased pushback against and the silencing of conservative voices on social media.
Just yesterday, Twitter added a “fact check” alert to two tweets from President Trump for the first time, in which the president claimed that mail-in ballots would be “substantially fraudulent.”
There is NO WAY (ZERO!) that Mail-In Ballots will be anything less than substantially fraudulent. Mail boxes will be robbed, ballots will be forged & even illegally printed out & fraudulently signed. The Governor of California is sending Ballots to millions of people, anyone…..
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) May 26, 2020
Trump responded by threatening to regulate or “close down” social media sites that “silence conservative voices.”
Republicans feel that Social Media Platforms totally silence conservatives voices. We will strongly regulate, or close them down, before we can ever allow this to happen. We saw what they attempted to do, and failed, in 2016. We can’t let a more sophisticated version of that….
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) May 27, 2020
Twitter employees have been found guilty conservative censorship attempts before. In November 2018, Twitter suspended Marine veteran and conservative commentator Jesse Kelly’s account, but refused to explain why. After online backlash, Twitter reinstated Kelly’s account.
Earlier in 2018, Project Veritas obtained undercover footage of Twitter employees boasting about using their positions to quietly block certain users’ posts from being seen. “One strategy is to shadow ban so you have ultimate control,” said a former Twitter software engineer in the clip. Accounts which have been “shadow banned,” he added, “just think that no one is engaging with their content, when in reality, no one is seeing it.”
In testimony before Congress, Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey insisted that “Twitter does not use political ideology to make any decisions, whether related to ranking content on our service or how we enforce our rules.” Yet, when asked by podcaster Sam Harris about Twitter’s suspension of certain accounts, Dorsey claimed, “I don’t believe that we can afford to take a neutral stance anymore,” according to the Daily Wire.
Twitter isn’t the first or the only member of the elite media class to show bias against conservatives. Two weeks ago, ABC, NBC, and CBS all ran clips of Trump administration officials that were edited in a way that misinformed viewers about the actual content of the videos.
Hollywood holds the same one-way bias. Ostracized circles of conservatives in the entertainment industry cluster in groups such as the “Friends of Abe,” which keeps the names of its 2,500 members private. Meanwhile, Tinseltown elites from Michelle Williams to the creators of Mrs. America advocate and celebrate the Leftist policies like abortion, and mischaracterize opponents of radical feminism.
Roth’s tweets about conservatives aren’t an isolated event; they represent the troika of Big Tech, media, and Hollywood in their determination to oppose conservative opinions.
In theory, Trump should win easily on Nov 3. In reality, we need to fight for every inch of ground.
Go get ‘im, Mr. President.
I want Pres. Trump to win partly so I can know this Twitter “Fact Check” douche had a meltdown on election eve. I’m adding him to my “meltdown” wanted list.
That's all I need to know about this punk.
The Bill of Rights places restrictions on government but traditionally does not force behavior codes on private entities. Yet when the Civil Rights acts were written in the 1960’s private restaurants, stores transportation companies etc were held to be offering public accommodations and as such could not institute policies that excluded members of the public. Twitter, Facebook, Google are indeed private companies that advertise and make themselves a public accommodation. If their policies show bias against people for their political beliefs, then there is precedent to make them to accommodate opinions they don’t like.
This is all unfathomably weird.
Twitter has been a bum stock for years. It’s share price is half of where it started out in 2014, whereas similar firms’ (FB, Amazon, ...) stocks are up by 3x or more.
Jack Dorsey is hanging on as CEO by a fine piece of thread:
https://www.wired.com/story/jack-dorseys-reprieve-twitter-ceo-not-last/
Paul Singer of Elliott Management, the hostile investor, is very, very savvy —> too smart to get down in the weeds of how to validate content. (Once started, there is no end.)
The chosen tweets are also odd ... Is this really the test case that Twitter wants to take on? Mail-in voting fraud? (PDJT has many more controversial tweets than this!) And in fact-checking, what in the world is the thinking behind referencing only CNN, Washington Post, etc.? Why use this idiot lefty 30-something as an intermediary when there is obviously no possible way that this idiot had a green light to toast the leader of the free world? This was Jack Dorsey’s call as surely as the sun rises in the east!
Dorsey only owns 2% of Twitter at this point, with the vast majority of his wealth coming from Square. He has zero incentive to do right by other Twitter shareholders. He’s a smart guy, but his large shareholders must surely be thinking ... WTHeck?
My hypothesis is that this leads directly to Dorsey with the motivation being a big middle finger to Paul Singer. Is he doing this because he knows he’s within days or weeks of getting canned? Or is he doing it to call Singer’s bluff or because Vanguard or someone other top 10 shareholder has stepped up to protect him? I would bet on the former but would never rule out the latter ... or some other motivation.
But surely this was not pure stupidity. Dorsey is a fool but he’s not an idiot and surely I am not the only one who thinks the buck stops at his desk and that he knew that when he designed and launched it.
Looking at the picture there is no doubt.
Liberals don’t even try to be fair or accurate.
Bug chasers
Yup,I’ve heard of that. The level of depravity is breathtaking.
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Bookmarked. Thank you.
Yo Yo’s faggot checking POTUS will land Twitter in the trash by EO.
How Twitter is going to survive zillions of ambulance chasers remains to be seen!
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