Posted on 11/30/2023 6:04:02 AM PST by Twotone
A new study of big tech censorship claimed that online companies such as Google, X, and Meta had censored President Biden's opponents who are running for the Oval Office 162 times.
Topping the list, according to NewsBusters, were Republican candidate Vivek Ramaswamy and newly independent candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr.. The Republican was censored 18 times, while RFK Jr. was censored 17 times. These numbers did not include any community notes added to messages on Elon Musk's platform X.
Third on the list was Nikki Haley (14), followed by Larry Elder (13) and Donald Trump (nine). President Biden was reportedly censored by big tech platforms seven times, as were six other candidates such as Chris Christie and Ron DeSantis.
Young Turks host Cenk Uygur was even noted on the list as being censored twice, while the Green Party's Jill Stein was hit with one infraction.
Nearly every major platform participated in the alleged censorship: Google/YouTube, Facebook, X, Instagram, LinkedIn, and TikTok all reportedly engaged in at least one act of alleged censorship of at least one candidate. Google was reportedly the worst for this and censored every candidate except for President Biden.
This totaled 112 different acts by the search-engine giant.
Ramaswamy was censored chiefly by Google, which reportedly included not showing his campaign website on the first page of search results. As well, Google AI allegedly left him off a list of presidential candidates for 2024 when prompted by researchers.
Ramaswamy was also hit by a flurry of context labels for his comments on climate change in YouTube videos. As well, LinkedIn temporarily suspended his account in May 2023 for three specific posts that allegedly violated the platform's user agreement.
Ramaswamy said that "the CCP is playing the Biden administration like a Chinese mandolin" in one of the posts. LinkedIn told Media Research Center that it restored the candidate's access to his account after it took the action "in error."
Ramaswamy called it "an intentional act of censorship."
The censorship runner-up, Kennedy Jr., had seven videos deleted by YouTube for speaking about COVID-19, vaccines, and the assassination of his father.
Google's AI chatbot didn't much care for Kennedy either and allegedly left him off lists of 2024 presidential candidates, as well as a list of 2024 specifically Democratic presidential candidates, despite the fact that he was polling higher than Governor DeSantis for the former and was second to President Biden in polling for the latter.
Also according to the report, X applied at least 115 community notes to posts made by 2024 presidential candidates.
They go against the Narrative.
People with brown skin MUST support Democrats. Vivek doesn’t.
Democrats MUST reject any and all conspiracy thinking. RFK doesn’t.
“Ramaswamy was censored chiefly by Google, which reportedly included not showing his campaign website on the first page of search results.”
When I search for Vivek Ramaswamy on Google
https://www.google.com/search?q=Vivek+Ramaswamy
my first result is https://www.vivek2024.com/
Uhmm, they kicked Trump off of all platforms years ago
These companies need to be broken up before they break up our country.
Just The Ministry of Truth at work doing its mission as prescribed by our leaders…….
“The most insidious power the media has, is the power to ignore.” — Chris Plante, WMAL, DC.
Remember this when they try to push the lie that RFK Jr would take away votes from Trump
I was awakened to how egregiously the drive by media was lying by omission in Spring of 2020, 5-6 months before 9/11. And it happened because of Free Republic.
What was the event?
The multi-day black riots in Cincinnati, Ohio that occurred then.
You say you don’t remember? Well, they were well documented here. National media barely touched the story.
It is old enough you have to use Archive.org to get to the articles, as it was before the FR back end database change of the early 2000s.
https://web.archive.org/web/20010419232728/https://freerepublic.com/forum/a3ad646ad6811.htm
Post 9 there has links to tons of FR threads on the event.
They both speak truth and RFKJr. threatens Biden or his replacement.
More than Trump?
It’s funny (or not), but now that I think about it, I really haven’t seen or read about those two for awhile. That’s bad, I hate these organizations.
Thanks much for the Archive.org link; I’m a big supporter of that group. It’s so V-A-S-T that one could spend more than a lifetime there, and never get thru it all.
we the people have the power to ignore the media/big tech
Going after the two guys who tell the inconvenient truth. Outspoken, and Ramaswamy is extraordinarily articulate. Huge threats.
You are right!
RFK, Jr.: Climate Skeptics ‘Should Be at the Hague with All the Other War Criminals’ https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3206882/posts
RFK, Jr. wants me jailed … as a war criminal https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3211190/posts
RFK Jr.: Hog farmers bigger threat than Osama https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2178592/posts
Robert F. Kennedy Jr. Wants To Jail His Political Opponents https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3206573/posts
Lessons in civility from RFK, Jr. https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3509601/posts
Robert Kennedy Jr. Blames Reagan For 9/11 [for rolling back CAFE standards in 1986] https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1855875/posts
RFK Jr. spreads blame for environmental woes in New Bedford speech https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1913559/posts
Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. Blames Fairness Doctrine Abolishment for Conservatism Popularity https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2479527/posts
RFK, Jr: ‘We have so much to learn from Cuba’ https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3243628/posts
RFK Endorses AOC’s Green New Deal, Calls for Climate Taxation https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/4187998/posts
Watch RFK, Jr. lose it at climate change march when confronted about his hypocrisy https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3206578/posts
Andrea Mitchell Applauds RFK Jr.’s ‘Impassioned Plea’ for Obama to Stop Keystone Pipeline by Fiat https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/3120692/posts
RFK Jr. Slams “Right-Wing Control of American Media” https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2967445/posts
RFK Jr: Right-Wing Controls American Media, Fox News Has Divided US to a Point not Seen Since Civil War https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2967311/posts
RFK jr: Sen. Inhofe is a “Call Girl” for Big Oil (But it’s OK to say it, he’s a Democrat after all) https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2855976/posts
Robert Kennedy, Jr.’s ‘Green’ Company Scored $1.4 Billion Taxpayer Bailout https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2808401/posts
RFK Jr. Claims Air America Was More Popular Than Conservative Radio https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2740193/posts
Robert F. Kennedy Jr. Endorses Charlie Crist, Attacks Tea Party (Video) https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2606809/posts
RFK, Jr. 15 months ago: Global warming means no snow or cold in DC https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2446226/posts
Robert Kennedy Jr.: right-wing hosts spread hate https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2271218/posts
Robert F. Kennedy, Jr: Innocent ACORN Defrauded by ACORN Workers https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2109548/posts
Robert F. Kennedy Jr.: ‘There Is No Liberal Media’(video barf!) https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2021728/posts
Kennedy Calls Skeptical Politicians ‘Traitors’ and ‘Corporate Toadies’ https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/1864440/posts
RFK Jr. Says AGW Skeptics Should Be Silenced https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1864945/posts
Video: Stossel Takes Robert F. Kennedy Jr. On For Traitor Remark https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1864510/posts
RFK Jr. Calls Rush Limbaugh, Sean Hannity and Glenn Beck Lying ‘Flat Earthers’ https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1863207/posts
RFK (Robberbaron F. Kennedy) Jr. vs. Mike Gallagher on Energy Independence https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2033812/posts
The Incredible Shrinking Credibility of RFK, Jr. https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1644744/posts
RFK Jr.: Bush, Barbour to Blame for Katrina https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1473838/posts
RFK Jr: You know, my uncle was also shot amid a climate of right-wing hate https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2655920/posts
Flashback - Palin’s Big Oil infatuation [End of snow forever in DC] https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3387273/posts
RFK Jr says Donald Trump has ‘discredited the American experiment’
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-7903551/Robert-Kennedy-Jr-says-Donald-Trump-discredited-American-experiment.html
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