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STUDY: Twitter Censorship Shockingly on Rise After Elon Musk Takeover
NewsBusters ^ | 3/30/2023 | Joseph Vazquez

Posted on 03/30/2023 2:23:43 PM PDT by JV3MRC

Twitter owner Elon Musk sent an email to staff stating that the value of the Big Tech platform was worth $20 billion, which is just around half of the amount he paid for it. But Twitter 2.0’s value as the new free speech haven also ended up plunging like a bad stock market bet. A new MRC Free Speech America study using CensorTrack.org data shows that censorship on Twitter 2.0 has surprisingly gotten worse.

MRC Free Speech America staff tallied the number of logged Twitter censorship entries between Nov. 4, 2022 — around the time Musk began mass layoffs of leftist employees held over from the old regime — and Mar. 4, 2023. Also tallied was the total number of logged Twitter censorship cases from the same time period beginning the prior year: Nov. 4, 2021 to Mar. 4, 2022. The results were revealing. MRC Free Speech America tallied 293 logged censorship cases under Musk’s time as owner, which is 67 cases more than the 226 entries tallied from the old regime. Twitter has to do better if Twitter 2.0 is to be the “digital town square” and “free speech” haven owner Musk has said it should be.

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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Government; Politics
KEYWORDS: blogpimp; censorship; elonmusk; mrc; twitter
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1 posted on 03/30/2023 2:23:43 PM PDT by JV3MRC
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To: JV3MRC

Did he put Newsom in charge, now that he’s Newsom’s guy?


2 posted on 03/30/2023 2:25:36 PM PDT by nickcarraway
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To: JV3MRC

Never take a “study” seriously until you examine the financial & political background of the perveyors...


3 posted on 03/30/2023 2:25:51 PM PDT by SuperLuminal (Where is the next Sam Adams when we so desperately need him)
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To: JV3MRC

I don’t think he said he was laying of leftist employees.


4 posted on 03/30/2023 2:28:59 PM PDT by nickcarraway
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To: JV3MRC

Elton John is gay? How can the allow such false rumors to be posted?


5 posted on 03/30/2023 2:29:50 PM PDT by nickcarraway
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To: SuperLuminal

And the details.

For example, are they including bots?


6 posted on 03/30/2023 2:32:25 PM PDT by lepton ("It is useless to attempt to reason a man out of a thing he was never reasoned into"--Jonathan Swift)
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To: JV3MRC

But WHAT are the censoring now?

That makes a big difference. For example, is he actually censoring leftist calls for violence? Or people posting child pornography? Doxxing people?

Or is he censoring protected political speech? Satire? Poking of leftist sacred cows? Using the only standard pronouns in the English language?


7 posted on 03/30/2023 2:32:26 PM PDT by Boogieman
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To: lepton

Yes, another good question to ask. Musk has definitely said he’s going after bots, but only a leftist would consider banning a bot “censorship”, because bots have no rights.


8 posted on 03/30/2023 2:33:06 PM PDT by Boogieman
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>> MRC Free Speech America tallied 293 logged censorship cases

quantum observations?


9 posted on 03/30/2023 2:35:10 PM PDT by Gene Eric (Don't be a statist!)
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To: JV3MRC

I would expect that the removal of bots, lefty head explosions, and equal application of rules might result in a temporary increase until a new equilibrium is reached.


10 posted on 03/30/2023 2:37:20 PM PDT by Valpal1 (Not even the police are safe from the police!!!)
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To: Valpal1

Probably mostly pedophilia.


11 posted on 03/30/2023 2:39:38 PM PDT by TheDon (Resist the usurpers! Remember the J6 political prisoners!)
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To: JV3MRC

I’d like to see more specific details about the censorship because it seems to me there’s much less of it now under Musk than previously.


12 posted on 03/30/2023 2:41:27 PM PDT by jimwatx
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To: Boogieman

Censoring anything that says transgenderism is a mental disorder. You get put in twitter jail (48-72 hour suspension) and must delete tweet.

It happened to me. I pressed the appeal link that was offered many times during the month or so I was awaiting the results of the appeal, and never heard anything back.

So I deleted the tweet and have rephrased my assertion that transgenderism is a mental disorder.


13 posted on 03/30/2023 2:43:14 PM PDT by Reddy (BO stinks)
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To: JV3MRC

Pretty OBVIOUS what’s happened - Leftists figured they’d try to take advantage of the new freedom there, and Musk called them on it.


14 posted on 03/30/2023 2:44:27 PM PDT by BobL
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To: TheDon

Hopefully it’s just that!


15 posted on 03/30/2023 2:50:57 PM PDT by No name given (Anonymous is who you’ll know me as.)
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To: JV3MRC

Does it address the reason for censorship?


16 posted on 03/30/2023 2:53:49 PM PDT by ifinnegan (Democrats kill babies and harvest their organs to sell)
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To: JV3MRC

I heard a rumor that FR also sometimes censors speach.

But at least I have never been shadow banninated


17 posted on 03/30/2023 3:05:36 PM PDT by algore
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To: JV3MRC

It’s just the Elon has silenced the bots (have to be a verified human to be promoted/suggested by their algorithm now...and of course that costs $8.00 too, lol) and they’re suspending accounts with calls to violence, child porn, etc. That’s the censorship, but it’s not ideological censorship like it was when the Dorsey gang of thugs ran the place.


18 posted on 03/30/2023 3:14:38 PM PDT by jacknhoo (Luke 12:51; Think ye, that I am come to give peace on earth? I tell you, no; but separation.)
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To: JV3MRC

After Musk took over, a lot of Trolls purposefully posted stuff that HAD to be censored (e.g. criminal stuff).


19 posted on 03/30/2023 3:20:11 PM PDT by Dr. Sivana ("If you can’t say something nice . . . say the Rosary." [Red Badger])
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To: Reddy

“Censoring anything that says transgenderism is a mental disorder.”

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Well, I’ll have to just try that. I just the other day rejoined Twitter. I’ve noticed it is a lot better.

I’m going to post this right now:

Transgenderism is a mental disorder. Just because the “manual” has now been edited to remove it, doesn’t change the truth that anyone believing they are something they are not is a pretty serious mental disorder and these people need help and not encouragement in their illness.


20 posted on 03/30/2023 3:20:49 PM PDT by jacknhoo (Luke 12:51; Think ye, that I am come to give peace on earth? I tell you, no; but separation.)
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