Posted on 11/13/2023 6:11:51 AM PST by MtnClimber
A disinformation expert is lamenting that social media platforms have less control over speech as the 2024 elections approach, while conservatives notch wins against the industry and the Department of Homeland Security's calls for greater censorship.
This comes as the House Select Subcommittee on the Weaponization of the Federal Government released yet more evidence this week on nexus of the federal government, universities, and Big Tech that worked to censor Americans during the 2020 election. The House Judiciary Committee also held a hearing on the Department of Homeland Security’s efforts to increase censorship through the Election Integrity Partnership.
The new report by the Foundation for Freedom Online (FFO) shows how former Big Tech employees and censorship experts are lamenting their shrinking influence as the presidential election approaches next year. Pressure from a Republican House and some journalists discourages the federal government from collaborating with the Big Tech companies as it did during the 2020 election. Some federal courts have weighed in, finding the collaboration unconstitutional.
“Yoel Roth has been on a public speaking tear, sounding alarms to fellow censorship industry insiders that they've lost the control over 2024 election speech they once had in 2020,” Mike Benz, executive director of FFO posted to X on Monday.
Recently, former head of Trust and Safety at Twitter, Yoel Roth has given public presentations alongside other pro-censorship experts on the state of play in the industry ahead of 2024. Roth told an audience at a UCLA presentation that “the pendulum” is swinging against censorship on social media and in the public square because advocates against “disinformation” have stopped pressuring platforms to take action.
“I would argue it’s swinging because of exactly those same dynamics of public pressure that prompted the investment in the first place… And I mentioned that because on one hand that’s great, it sounds like all of the pressure on platforms really drove a meaningful impact. But we’re now seeing it swing in the exact opposite direction,” Roth said.
“And it’s not just Elon Musk firing everyone, like sure he did that, but why did he do it? He did it because we took our foot off the gas,” Roth said of anti-disinformation advocates.
Some of the public pressure that Roth spoke about has come from the House Judiciary Committee and its Weaponization of the Federal Government Subcommittee. The committee previously held hearings on the revelations from "The Twitter Files", a series of exposés published primarily by journalists Matt Taibbi, Bari Weiss, and Michael Shellenberger, which showed the extent of Twitter’s cooperation with the federal government to censor individual tweets and accounts that were deemed misinformation by the “experts.”...
If people like Yoel Roth are upset then that is a good thing.
Ignorant pigs need a copy of the first amendment shoved up their asses.
By definition, a disinformation expert could NOT exist.
There is no way to know what is factual and what is mostly true, somewhat true, rhetoric or partially false.
Political bias will ALWAYS rule such judgments.
It is the exact opposite of freedom of speech.
A “disinformation EXPERT”. An American genius who got thrown out of high school as a freshman and had a friend declare him an “expert”.
“The House Judiciary Committee also held a hearing on the Department of Homeland Security’s efforts to increase censorship through the Election Integrity Partnership.”
What an Orwellian name.
L
To upset their apple cart
Would be a fairly good start
Now roll that son of a bitch
Off the street and into the ditch
/s
We used to call these people dirty liars. Now they have a fancy name.
“Disinformation expert”, aka someone that’s an expert in gaslighting and pushing gov propaganda.
The 'disinformation expert' is really saying that the commie left has less of an iron grip than they did in 2020 when they illegally installed joe Bidung through fraud and propaganda.
That is EXACTLY what they are saying.
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