Robert F. Kennedy Jr. Banned by Major Social Media Site, Campaign Pages Blocked Elon Musk invites 2024 Democratic candidate for discussion

The Epoch Times ^ | 06/03/2023 | Jack Phillips

[thegagline]

Twitter owner Elon Musk invited Democrat presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. for a discussion on his Twitter Spaces after Kennedy said his campaign was suspended by Meta-owned Instagram.

“Interesting… when we use our TeamKennedy email address to set up @instagram accounts we get an automatic 180-day ban. Can anyone guess why that’s happening?” he wrote on Twitter. An accompanying image shows that Instagram said it “suspended” his “Team Kennedy” account and that there “are 180 days remaining to disagree” with the company’s decision.

In response to his post, Musk wrote: “Would you like to do a Spaces discussion with me next week?” Kennedy agreed, saying he would do it Monday at 2 p.m. ET.

Hours later, Kennedy wrote that Instagram “still hasn’t reinstated my account, which was banned years ago with more than 900k followers.” He argued that “to silence a major political candidate is profoundly undemocratic.” *** “Social media is the modern equivalent of the town square,” the candidate, who is the nephew of former President John F. Kennedy, wrote. “How can democracy function if only some candidates have access to it?” In an interview with CNN days later, Kennedy was asked about who censored him and why. He responded by saying that at least a dozen Democrat attorney generals recently had contacted social media sites to “censor me” and said that there is now “clear evidence” via the Twitter Files reporting that White House officials colluded with Big Tech to suppress his accounts.

“It’s because I was dissenting from government policies,” he said.

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[thegagline]

From the left and from the right, if you don’t express 100% fealty to the chosen candidate or dogma, you will be banned. We are becoming a nation of True Believers. Dissent will not be tolerated. zot, zot, zot.

[Boomer]

As much as I don’t want more government encroachment into our lives. One law needs to be made. Anyone running for office or in office cannot be suspended or banned by any social media platform.

This is just basic common sense but we all know the Rats and Rinos don’t have any of that so they must be made to adhere to basic common decency since they are incapable of doing it on their own.

[E. Pluribus Unum]

Election interference is OK when they do it.

[Spok]

The last time I liked a Kennedy was 1960, but this guy is an up and comer. Barring a run by DJT, who knows?

[adorno]

Kennedy will got a lot more attention now.

Banning someone from a social media site, or from anywhere, brings a lot of attention. He’ll score higher now in the polls against Biden, though not in the DNC polls.

[Right_Wing_Madman]

Another Zuckerberg plan has backfired. Now RFK Jr. will benefit from the Streisand Effect.

[leaning conservative]

Free speech? Riiiiiiggghhhtttt.....

[jocon307]

My goodness, this man’s father and two of his uncles (one the POTUS) DIED in service to this country.

If anyone can be considered a valid candidate for president it’s RFK, Jr. He most certainly is entitled to have an RFK for POTUS Instagram page, unless all such are banned. Is there a page for stupid Biden?

Don’t support Kennedy for President, but certainly DO support him running for President. Don’t think he is a crook.

[momincombatboots]

If it planned parenthood trump vs planned parenthood RFK,jr… well that makes it super fun. Easy choice there.

[Machavelli]

Zuckerberg is a Communist. Do not support him in any manner.

[Does so]

The Party.

Capital “T”—capital “P”...

[Vaduz]

It’s because I was dissenting from government policies.

Vince Foster taps box

Mafia’s have the same rules

[Political Junkie Too]

It's always been the law that traditional broadcast and print media cannot refuse to run campaign ads by candidates for office.

For some reason, social media sites aren't covered by those laws, not even with penumbras formed by emanations.

-PJ

[Bratch]

Info Wars and Billionaire Motives – Elon Musk Uses Team DeSantis Twitter “Community Notes” to Undermine Trump

June 3, 2023 | Sundance | 326 Comments

People often ask me why I seem to highlight datapoints and background events that do not trend to the media-driven narrative priority of the moment.  The answer is simple; everything is connected to the next thing that happens. If you do not outline the originating point, the accurate reference is missed when needed.

This approach is why I have focused significant research on Elon Musk’s financial situation with Twitter {GO DEEP}.

The issue of Twitter’s financial status speaks to the motives of Musk that later surface – like his relationship with Fox News billionaire Rupert Murdoch.  Once you see the connections, suddenly everything makes sense.  Musk and Murdoch have intersecting interests.

Elon Musk is in desperate need of revenue for his social media platform Twitter.  By his own admissions, Twitter is currently in the red on an annual basis between $1.5 to $4.0 billion; that may go as high as $5 billion, depending on what happens over the next six months.  Currently losing $100 million/mo, Musk is limited on how much he can pull from his other companies to support Twitter, and with $1.5 billion in debt service alone on the $12.5 billion borrowed for the Twitter purchase, Musk needs an income stream quickly.

Advertising revenue has dropped 50%. This is the motive for Musk to hire Linda Jaccarino, the former head of NBC Universal advertising, to bring urgently needed revenue to a platform currently considered too extreme for the DEI-minded corporate advertising executives.  Musk is also captive to contracts with Bezos’ Amazon (AWS) and Google cloud services for platform data processing support.  Those very expensive contracts – $1 billion and $2 billion respectively – do not expire until 2025.

In short, Musk needs revenue. For Twitter, this reality drives his decision-making.  Enter, Rupert Murdoch

The Murdoch media approach includes lengthy and friendly broadcast Fox News appearances, interviews and pundit advocacy, while the print side spins favorable stories.  The Wall Street Journal and New York Post are doing the same.  It is a full-court press to support DeSantis on behalf of the interests of Murdoch et al.  Keep in mind, the RNC has given Fox News control over the kickoff GOP debate.

♦ The Alliance of Interests – Elon Musk needs money; this is not in question.  Rupert Murdoch, supporting Ron DeSantis, wants control of the 2024 election outcome; also, this is not in question.  These two facets form the baseline of a common interest.

Elon Musk launches the DeSantis campaign via Twitter Spaces – not accidental.  Musk then uses his platform control mechanisms to amplify DeSantis and counteract the strong and visible platform support for Donald Trump.   What outlet pushes the narrative that flows from the operation?  Rupert Murdoch.

NEW YORK POST – Donald Trump’s 2024 election campaign’s claims are already being hit with Twitter’s new “community notes,” which fact-check or offer context to dubious posts.  In May alone, Team Trump and their surrogates were slapped with community notes on at least seven occasions — and were often cited for posting flat-out lies.  (read more)

Christina Pushaw is a registered foreign agent working for the DeSantis campaign.

Ms. Pushaw went from working in Ukraine, for Volodymyr Zelenskyy, directly to working in Florida as Ron DeSantis’ press secretary.

Pushaw was the person who gathered the “influence operation” over the past two years on behalf of the DeSantis 2024 operation.  That operation was visible in 2022, denied in 2022, then finally admitted two weeks ago.

Now working for the DeSantis campaign, Christina Pushaw – a fellow traveler from the George Soros network and schooling – has organized the same type of influence campaign used in Ukraine to support Zelenskyy, only this time she is exploiting social media and specifically Twitter.  This is why she spent so much time recruiting ‘influencers’ in 2021 and 2022, and even tried to deny she was doing it.

Put it all together, and what you see is Rupert Murdoch as the financial lifeline (with a common interest) for Elon Musk who desperately needs money that does not and cannot come from his other businesses (Tesla, SpaceX etc.).

Murdoch, supporting DeSantis, also had a problem he was willing to remove on his Fox News network.   Musk needs content providers as he needs a way to increase his viewership and money.  Murdoch axes Tucker Carlson.  Where does Carlson surface?  Twitter!  [NOTE: Except now I think Carlson has caught on to the play.]

The Twitter platform has now evolved to become the influence operation for Team DeSantis- with groundwork seeded by Pushaw.  The throttling of pro-MAGA, and boosting of pro-Meatball, is now becoming increasingly obvious.

The Twitter ‘Community Notes’ issue is simply a very visible reflection of what people have been talking about for several weeks.  This is why it was loaded into the media cannon on Rupert’s platform, The New York Post.   Everything is connected to everything else, and once you see the strings on these marionettes you can never return to that moment in the performance when you did not see them.

Musk needs revenue; this is not in question.  The question is now, how urgently?

The alliance between Rupert Murdoch and Elon Musk isn’t a conspiracy or wild imagining, it is simply the logical outcome to a common interest.  Elon needs money, Rupert wants DeSantis and control of the 2024 election.  Everything else is a matter of mutually aligned support.

♦ Last point – My long-standing suspicion is, the people who organized Ron DeSantis appear to have convinced the governor to run in 2024 by telling him that Lawfare was going to take down Donald Trump.  That’s why his handlers pushed the Florida governor into a bunker after the August 2022 FBI raid on Mar-a-Lago, and then relaunched the national campaign immediately thereafter. {Go Deep}

Ron DeSantis appears to have enrolled in their agenda under the assumption that he would NOT have to actually run against Donald Trump, but would instead be able to just pick up the MAGA base after Trump was removed from the 2024 campaign by Lawfare operations.  Pushed to accept this prediction by a wife desperate for her own sense of power, DeSantis appears to have believed the DC connected team that made these assurances.  Now both Ron, and to a lesser extent, Casey, are stuck hoping they are not wrong.

Rolling the dice on a bet against Donald Trump is never a good career strategy.  Factually, that approach has been proven bad-bad, ju-ju for anyone who tried.

Keep in mind, all the never-Trumpers and gleeful influencers who saw the dollar signs and joined on to DeSantis bandwagon, are hitched to the same outcome.

They are in a mutually assured destruction (MAD) situation.  If the Deep State and Lawfare doesn’t take out Donald Trump, their DeSantis operation goes over the edge into the bottomless pit of irrelevancy.

Thus, the DeSantis campaign, and everyone attached to the support thereof, will become increasingly desperate as Lawfare starts failing.

[Golden Eagle]

This article is full of laughable claims.

Murdoch has turned his media outlets into advanced PR for the DeSantis campaign.

Which includes FOX hosting a town hall for Trump on Thursday? Is that because they think putting Trump on TV will actually hurt Trump, rather than help, once people see and listen to him?

Elon Musk launches the DeSantis campaign via Twitter Spaces

So how is this also part of the supposed Murdock conspiracy? To let someone else handle the DeSantis announcement, rather than have DeSantis on FOX for himself? Sounds like a rather kooky theory, does it not?

The alliance between Rupert Murdoch and Elon Musk isn’t a conspiracy or wild imagining

It's not? Then why did Murdoch host Trump for a town hall on Thursday, and not DeSantis? None of this adds up, at all.

Rolling the dice on a bet against Donald Trump is never a good career strategy.

Again, how is Murdoch undermining Trump by hosting a town hall for him on Thursday? Unless letting people see him on TV actually hurts his candidacy.

This article appears to be complete bunk (like most by Sundance/Last Refuge).

[ronnie raygun]

They hated tucker for his interviews with him, I enjoyed it