While that may be true(or another made-up statistic), it is categorical error to assume that volume somehow equals influence, when around 80% of the population have social media accounts.
While you can scream with Mr. Universe that "You can't stop the signal," social media is a primary source of information for most people, and none of them are going on the dark web.
Twitter is a minor platform, but President has used it masterfully to get his views to the people without filters. This private policing of the Internet is more insidious than the government. While you may be adept at ferreting out whatever you may need, assuming such a competence by the masses displays a marked misunderstanding of human nature.
Quick test. Just go to Google and do a random search on any random hot topic. Typically it may come up with a billion or more results. How many of them are from Facebook? Not even 1%.
And Google doesn't even cover even one percent of the internet:
“ According to a study published in Nature, Google indexes no more than 16 percent of the surface Web and misses all of the Deep Web. Any given search turns up just 0.03 percent of the information that exists online (one in 3,000 pages).Apr 1, 2015”
it is categorical error to assume that volume somehow equals influence, when around 80% of the population have social media accounts.
I have never been on social media and my life is much richer because of that.
You assume that just because someone is on social media it means they spend their lives on social media or are going to be influenced to vote one way because Twitter told them to. Not so.
As for Twitter censoring or deleting anything. ..it means zilch.
Twitter/Face/YouTube banned Alex Jones and Infowars no?
Well right now he is more available and as popular as ever. You can still go to Infowars.com and watch any video of his and read any articles you want. His radio show is as popular as ever and you know what? Twitter can't do sh*t about that.
https://www.infowars.com/
You also forget the huge audience and massive influence that talk radio hosts like Limbaugh, Hannity, Levin, Savage et al have using good old fashioned radio.
Rush has more influence with one broadcast than a million Facebook posts.