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MIT: Twitter Ban ‘Nearly Doubled’ The Visibility Of Hunter Biden Laptop Story
Daily Wire ^ | October 19 2020 | Emily Zanotti

Posted on 10/19/2020 5:08:27 PM PDT by SmokingJoe

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To: SmokingJoe
Streisand Effect ... "The more you try to ban something, the more it spreads."

Then let's hope they don't try to ban Barb.

Get it? Sorry that was gross :-P

21 posted on 10/19/2020 5:24:00 PM PDT by tinyowl (A is A)
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To: Navy Patriot
In fact, Twitter’s efforts triggered a massive spike in interest in the story. “According to Zignal Labs, a media intelligence firm, shares of the Post article ‘nearly doubled’ after Twitter started suppressing it,” MIT noted.


22 posted on 10/19/2020 5:24:02 PM PDT by DoodleBob (Gravity's waiting period is about 9.8 m/s^2)
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To: Presbyterian Reporter

The President needs to make censorship a campaign issue—and he needs to vow to bust the Silicon Valley Trusts.

This is a below-the-radar winning issue—and imho the right thing to do.

The free market is not a suicide pact.


23 posted on 10/19/2020 5:24:55 PM PDT by cgbg (Biden n-2020: Criminal enterprise using cokehead as bagman.)
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To: SmokingJoe

The cover-up is worse than the crime.

Though, not in the case of pedophilia and child abuse. In those cases the crime is still worse.


24 posted on 10/19/2020 5:25:33 PM PDT by monkeyshine (live and let live is dead)
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25 posted on 10/19/2020 5:28:57 PM PDT by KevinB (Quite literally, whatever the Left touches it ruins.)
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To: ckilmer
but ban a high status source and there are consequences and a loud pushback

A high status, high circulation, highly influential source like the New York Post cannot just be canceled like that.
This is a big newspaper in the biggest media market on the planet with outsize power.
Plus this was a huge story. Everyone is talking about the New York Post, even on the British and Australian TV news channels on YouTube. The biggest winner so far is the Post

26 posted on 10/19/2020 5:29:49 PM PDT by SmokingJoe
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To: SmokingJoe

Banned on twitter? I’ve got to see that. Like the old book publishers hoping their book gets banned in Boston.


27 posted on 10/19/2020 5:36:04 PM PDT by hardspunned (MAGA, now more than ever)
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To: immadashell

Exactly - no bias in this corrupt writers piece LOL


28 posted on 10/19/2020 5:38:12 PM PDT by falcon99 (qu)
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To: Billthedrill

Right. Leftists believe the ‘fact checkers’ are protecting us. Just like the ‘punch a nazi’ crowd justifies violence because ‘We’d all punch Hitler if we saw him!’.
The left is not sick, they are vile, corrupt to the core of their being.
They know what they’re doing is wrong, and they choose to riot, burn, loot, and destroy anyway.


29 posted on 10/19/2020 5:39:59 PM PDT by No_More_Harkin
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To: SmokingJoe

I call it The Three Stooges Effect.

30 posted on 10/19/2020 5:46:45 PM PDT by seawolf101 (Member LES DEPLORABLES)
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31 posted on 10/19/2020 5:51:49 PM PDT by Manic_Episode (Trump has more soul in his wink. Biden has souless dead fish eyes)
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To: SmokingJoe

Then we must’ve banned masks because they are overflowing in every commercial garbage can I see.


32 posted on 10/19/2020 5:57:20 PM PDT by momincombatboots (Ephesians 6... who you are really at war with)
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To: SmokingJoe

I get the Post delivered every day. I skip the pictures of celebrities and go right to the pro-Trump reporting.


33 posted on 10/19/2020 5:57:59 PM PDT by I want the USA back (Social media are the propaganda arm of the Democratic Party. Wholly owned subsidiaries. I)
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To: workerbee

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Streisand_effect


34 posted on 10/19/2020 6:00:08 PM PDT by Larry Lucido
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To: Presbyterian Reporter

Correct on every count. I think the only reason Twitter unbanned links to the story was because everyone was getting it direct from the New York Post and the story was spreading like wildfire anyway despite the Twitter ban.


35 posted on 10/19/2020 6:01:32 PM PDT by SmokingJoe
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To: SmokingJoe
The Streisand Effect.
36 posted on 10/19/2020 6:07:28 PM PDT by MuttTheHoople (What if the Lord sent COVID-19 to immunize the world from something more deadly?)
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To: SmokingJoe

In fact, Twitter’s efforts triggered a massive spike in interest in the story. “According to Zignal Labs, a media intelligence firm, shares of the Post article ‘nearly doubled’ after Twitter started suppressing it,” MIT noted.

Biased Political Censorship still does not work in America!


37 posted on 10/19/2020 6:17:22 PM PDT by Grampa Dave (The line that separated Satire, Democrats and Stupidity has vanished. (thanks to jonascord)!)
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To: Presbyterian Reporter

The new reality when the media thugs try to ban the real news.

“When Twitter and Facebook banned the NY Post article, the ban became the news.

People reacted by going to the NY Post article and emailing it to their friends.

Conservative bloggers jumped on the story and repeated more than they might have otherwise.

Guiliani got more coverage by the media than he otherwise would have.

All in all, it was a win.

Now that Twitter has un banned the story it gets repeated again and again.”


38 posted on 10/19/2020 6:21:54 PM PDT by Grampa Dave (The line that separated Satire, Democrats and Stupidity has vanished. (thanks to jonascord)!)
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To: SmokingJoe
Back to the days of Soviet censorship and the Samizdat fighting it.
39 posted on 10/19/2020 6:22:17 PM PDT by KarlInOhio (The greatest threat to world freedom is the Chinese Communist Party and Joe Biden is their puppet.)
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To: SmokingJoe

Yep, search for the word Biden on twitter and all you see is people tweeting about his corruption. When Joe comes out of the basement on Thursday the stain will not come off.


40 posted on 10/19/2020 6:25:50 PM PDT by Helicondelta (Deplorable)
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