Fmr Acting AG Whitaker: Facebook, Twitter Algorithms Could Be Viewed by DOJ as an ‘Illegal Campaign Contribution’

Breitbart ^ | September 4, 2020 | Jeff Poor

[CheshireTheCat]

Friday, during an appearance on Fox News Channel’s “Tucker Carlson Tonight,” former acting Attorney General Matthew Whitaker argued for a Department of Justice investigation into how Facebook and Twitter were altering their algorithms for the sake of politics.

Whitaker told host Tucker Carlson he did not see American democracy surviving another election cycle under the circumstances by which those social media outlets function.

“Yes, I actually do believe we are going to get to the bottom of this insidious, really, censorship of mostly conservative voices on social media,” he said. “And I think the Department of Justice has been looking at this issue, and I also believe that because of the way the algorithms that Facebook and Twitter and the like use to provide your news feed, I think that could be viewed, and maybe viewed by this Department of Justice, as a campaign contribution, an illegal campaign contribution, that ultimately, I think, they will step in and take action.”...

[volunbeer]

There is no right in the constitution to maintain an ongoing propaganda operation against the American people. This is what most of the media is today. They espouse the same talking points, and operate in lockstep. This has to stop.

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I concur. Whitaker is smart and he is careful. For him to come out and say this means he believes he has a solid legal argument.

This is also why PSB and NPR should be defunded. Period. Let the left subsidize them, but they should not get taxpayer money as partisan hacks. Same for universities and public schools. Education is not supposed to be “indoctrination”.

[Chode]

contributions in kind

[gogeo]

I never considered the in-kind contributions angle. Smart.

I think different angles exist.