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Conservatives push to discredit Facebook, Twitter and Google just days before the election (CNN worried)
CNN Business ^ | 10/25/2020 | Brian Fung

Posted on 10/25/2020 9:12:51 AM PDT by Drew68

A right-wing offensive is underway to discredit social media companies just days before the election.

What began as complaints about anti-conservative censorship by social media companies has now evolved into outright allegations of election interference, as high-ranking Republicans have accused online platforms of helping Democrats by way of their content moderation decisions. On Wednesday, the Senate Commerce Committee is set to grill the CEOs of Facebook (FB), Google (GOOG) and Twitter (TWTR) amid right-wing cries of partisanship and threats to change a critical law, known as Section 230, that protects the companies' ability to moderate content as they see fit.

Outside experts have found little evidence to support claims of widespread, systematic political bias in Silicon Valley's technology. But the conservative allegations are an explosive charge and a dramatic escalation ahead of Election Day. They reflect not only the stakes of the race, but also the fact that Facebook, Twitter and YouTube have become key parts of America's democracy, for better or for worse — and now, fair game for a party with a habit of working the refs.

The Commerce Committee isn't the only one looking to put tech execs in the hotseat. Last Thursday, Senate Judiciary Committee Republicans voted to authorize subpoenas for Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg and Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey that would compel them to testify about conservative censorship. No Democrats participated in the vote to compel their testimony.

In calling for the subpoenas earlier this month, Sen. Ted Cruz blasted tech platforms for "actively interfering in this election in a way that has no precedent in the history of our country."

"Twitter and Facebook and Big Tech billionaires don't get to censor political speech and actively interfere in the election," Cruz said. "That's what they're doing right now."

Twitter declined to comment for this story...

(Excerpt) Read more at cnn.com ...


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Extended News; News/Current Events
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In related news, as of this moment the New York Post remains locked out of posting on Twitter due to their "crime" of breaking the Hunter Biden laptop story.
1 posted on 10/25/2020 9:12:51 AM PDT by Drew68
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To: Drew68

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2 posted on 10/25/2020 9:14:33 AM PDT by GOP Poet
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To: Drew68

A push is needed to discredit them? Weird.


3 posted on 10/25/2020 9:15:54 AM PDT by rktman ( #My2ndAmend! ----- Enlisted in the Navy in '67 to protect folks rights to strip my rights. WTH?)
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To: Drew68
Outside experts Paid shills have found little evidence to support claims of widespread, systematic political bias in Silicon Valley's technology.
4 posted on 10/25/2020 9:16:56 AM PDT by Rebelbase
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To: Drew68

These clowns censor Trump supporters—and then to add insult to injury they _deny_ they are doing it—and if you call them out of it then they _ban_ you!

Sociopaths are totally shameless.


5 posted on 10/25/2020 9:18:15 AM PDT by cgbg (Biden n-2020: Criminal enterprise using cokehead as bagman.)
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To: Drew68

Facebook, Twitter and Google discredit themselves just days before the election (CNN worried) THERE FIXED


6 posted on 10/25/2020 9:20:21 AM PDT by jmaroneps37
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To: Drew68
Outside experts...
You just have to ask yourself...which "outside experts" did they use to come to their conclusion?
7 posted on 10/25/2020 9:20:56 AM PDT by philman_36 (Pride breakfasted with plenty, dined with poverty and supped with infamy. Benjamin Franklin)
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To: Drew68

Facebook, Twitter and Google have discredited themselves. CNN has done a good job of discrediting themselves as well. This screed being good proof of that. Keep up the good work CNN. Enjoy the sewer you live in.


8 posted on 10/25/2020 9:25:11 AM PDT by shortstop (I used to wrap fish in the New York Times, but it made the fish stink.)
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To: Drew68

Facebook, Twitter, Google have done it to themselves. People are waking up.


9 posted on 10/25/2020 9:26:38 AM PDT by conservativepoet
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To: Drew68

They’ve discredited themselves

CNN, YOU are fake news.


10 posted on 10/25/2020 9:26:46 AM PDT by a fool in paradise (Joe Biden- "First thing I'd do is repeal those Trump tax cuts." (May 4th, 2019))
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To: Drew68
Any publication print or digital that carries the daily news on one side but refuses to carry the news for the other side is corrupt.

Joe Biden used his office to enrich himself and his family. Some have described Hunter as a "Bag Man" for his father...there is evidence that proves that is true.

Selling influence as a government employee is criminal is it not? The Clinton's have been doing this for decades and have gotten away with it. It is a way of life for the Left however, let a Republican get caught doing influence selling and it is hell to pay...

11 posted on 10/25/2020 9:27:21 AM PDT by yoe (Vote for President Trump!..Keep America Great and protected by the US. Constitution.)
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To: cgbg

>>These clowns censor Trump supporters—and then to add insult to injury they _deny_ they are doing it—and if you call them out of it then they _ban_ you!

Gaslighting


12 posted on 10/25/2020 9:27:22 AM PDT by a fool in paradise (Joe Biden- "First thing I'd do is repeal those Trump tax cuts." (May 4th, 2019))
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To: yoe
>>Any publication print or digital that carries the daily news on one side but refuses to carry the news for the other side is corrupt.

Despotism (Encyclopedia Britannica film, circa 1946)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TaWSqboZr1w

“A community is low on a ‘Respect’ scale if common courtesy is withheld from large groups of people on account of their political attitudes.”

“...in a downright despotism opposition is dangerous whether the despotism is official or whether it is unofficial...”

“A community rates low on the ‘Information’ scale when the press, radio, and other channels of communication are controlled by only a few people and when citizens have to accept what they are told.”

“See how a community trains its teachers”
“...these students are being taught to accept uncritically whatever they are told. Questions are not encouraged.”

“And if books and newspapers and the radio [and facebook and youtube and...] are officially controlled the people will read and accept exactly what the few in control want them to. Government censorship is one form of control. The newspaper that breaks the government censorship rule can be suspended. It is also possible for newspapers and other lines of communication to be controlled by private interests...”

Democracy (Encyclopedia Britannica film, circa 1946)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bx25aMPvbJo

“The newspapers of a real democracy meet these tests...”

Newspaper checks.
1. Balance of coverage
2. Disclosure of source
3. Competence of staff


13 posted on 10/25/2020 9:31:21 AM PDT by a fool in paradise (Joe Biden- "First thing I'd do is repeal those Trump tax cuts." (May 4th, 2019))
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To: Drew68

Just throwing this out there....

FaceBook, Twitter, et al aren’t going to be called to account in front of Congress until AFTER the election.

What are the chances that they’ll ease up on the censorship for the next week, President Trump wins re-election, and they can claim before Congress ‘see, we didn’t do anything that kept Trump from being re-elected’ and it all blows over?


14 posted on 10/25/2020 9:31:39 AM PDT by Spirit of Liberty (It's morning in America again!)
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To: Spirit of Liberty

What is the chance that Trump will forget being stabbed in the back?

What is the chance that covering up Treason to throw an election will be forgiven or forgotten by anybody?


15 posted on 10/25/2020 9:37:53 AM PDT by American in Israel (A wise man's heart directs him to the right, but the foolish mans heart directs him toward the left.)
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To: philman_36
You just have to ask yourself...which "outside experts" did they use to come to their conclusion?

Snopes, PolitiFact, Rachel Maddow, Southern Poverty Law Center...

You know, "independent, unbiased" sources.

16 posted on 10/25/2020 9:42:37 AM PDT by Drew68
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To: Rebelbase

And there’s no nose on your faces, CNN shills, none at all. How could you be so stupid to think there is.


17 posted on 10/25/2020 9:45:00 AM PDT by JustaCowgirl (A vote for Joe Biden is a vote for empty smirking pantsuit Kamala Harris for President)
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To: Drew68

“Conservatives” don’t have to do much to discredit FB & Twitter, they’ve already done it to themselves with their infantile censorship games ...

whatever cred they once had has now been squandered ... wow, and it only took 2 weeks to do it ... in future years, these 2 companies will be studied in business schools as examples of gross stupidity in “management”


18 posted on 10/25/2020 9:45:08 AM PDT by canuck_conservative
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To: Drew68

The same outside experts who had Hunters laptop and saw no crimes?


19 posted on 10/25/2020 9:45:32 AM PDT by robel
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To: KC_Lion

Ping for your interest


20 posted on 10/25/2020 9:53:55 AM PDT by Drew68
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