The recent Twitter posts that revealed the media and big tech for collaborating with a political party to elect Biden to office by discrediting the Hunter Biden laptop allegation caused MSNBC analyst Brendan Buck to freak out. The new evidence, according to Buck, will strengthen the right by confirming “conspiracies” that political censorship exists.
It’s all just a bunch of “conspiracies” that just happen to have email evidence to back it up…. Yeah, right.
They’re all just panicked over January when the GOP takes the House. Countless Americans were silenced on the platform and I’d like to see these clowns explain to us what happened if it wasn’t censorship.
“Brendan, last night, Elon Musk promoted a series of tweets revealing internal documents claiming Twitter took steps to restrict access to a New York Post article from October 2020 about Hunter Biden,” Reiser said. “We should note NBC has not seen or verified those documents, but why do you think Musk is doing this and what impact could it have if Republicans launch investigations into Hunter Biden when they take control of Congress?”
Buck said Republicans will “launch an investigation into Hunter Biden and this angle of it, but also Twitter in general.”
He also suggested that the incident has major implications for political debates around big tech in general.
“There is a long-running theme through Republican politics right now, that big tech has censored conservatives, the term is ‘shadow banning,’ all these things that people talk about-how free speech from ‘just conservatives’ has been muzzled, and I think they’re gonna use this whether or not it shows anything of that,” he claimed. “What it does show is that [Twitter] had a close relationship with Democrats – much closer relationship than with Republicans.”
He suggested that this one incident of censorship will bolster a larger narrative.
“That is enough. That is enough to have Republicans say, ‘Aha!, this is exactly what we have been talking about. We have been cast aside. People are censoring our speech,’” Buck said. “The entire ethos of Republicans is victimism, and the fact there are elites in power who are holding them back and this plays perfectly into that theme.”
“The resulting slant in content moderation decisions is visible in the documents you’re about to read. However, it’s also the assessment of multiple current and former high-level executives,” Taibbi wrote.
Taibbi’s initial thread said that one major reason Twitter moderation leaned leftward was “Because Twitter was and is overwhelmingly staffed by people of one political orientation, there were more channels, more ways to complain, open to the left (well, Democrats) than the right,” he tweeted.
11. This system wasn't balanced. It was based on contacts. Because Twitter was and is overwhelmingly staffed by people of one political orientation, there were more channels, more ways to complain, open to the left (well, Democrats) than the right. https://t.co/sa1uVRNhuH pic.twitter.com/K1xmqQ0TrD
— Matt Taibbi (@mtaibbi) December 3, 2022
“The resulting slant in content moderation decisions is visible in the documents you’re about to read. However, it’s also the assessment of multiple current and former high-level executives,” Taibbi wrote.