Twitter imposed harsher sanctions on conservative U.S. politicians and investigative news media outlets than it did to Russian war propaganda. Rep. Lisa McClain, R-MI (and six other House Republicans) sent a demand to Twitter for a public apology.
“I wish Twitter cared as much about censoring Russian propaganda, as it does censoring Republicans,” McClain said in exclusive comments to MRC Free Speech America. “The American people can see right through their selective censorship. It’s absolutely unacceptable that Twitter bans the sitting President of the United States, but allows blatantly false Russian propaganda to exist on its site.”
McClain was one of six congressional legislators who participated in the aforementioned election. letterSent to CEO company Parag Agrawal. The lawmakers called out Twitter’s apparent “partisan bias” and inaction in moderating “Russian disinformation” spread on the platform since the country launched war in Ukraine in February.
The letter to Twitter highlights that the platform banned former President Donald Trump “due to the Risk of further incitement of violence.” Meanwhile, the lawmakers claimed Russia is “violating every international law, norm and custom, and is actively using Twitter to spread disinformation.” [Emphasis added].
“Big Tech companies need to be consistent and transparent,” McClain told Free Speech America. The letter gave examples of Twitter’s poor policy implementation.
One example in the letter was a deleted tweet by the Russian Embassy to the U.K.’s account. The Associated Press reported that the account allegedly condoned an airstrike on a maternity and children’s hospital in Mariupol, Ukraine, that wounded at least 17 people. According to the lawmakers’ letter, the Russian Embassy in the U.K. reportedly tweeted propaganda that “claimed the hospital was ‘long non-operational’, used by the ‘neo-Nazi Azov Battalion’ and that a woman photographed who survived the attack was a crisis actor.”
“After hours of inaction, which allowed the tweets to spread,” the letter critiqued, “Twitter took them down, but still allowed the originating account to stay active.”
Among other questions, the letter asked Agrawal: “What, in your eyes, do these Russian government accounts need to do to rise to the level of a permanent suspension?”
The lawmakers also called for Twitter to “dispute the disinformation from Russia” and to “highlight the atrocities being inflicted on Ukraine by the Russian Government.”
Madison Cawthorn, Doug Lamborn, Byron Donalds, Buddy Carter (R–FL), Byron Donalds and Mike Carey (R–OH) all signed the letter along with McClain.
Russia is not only the authoritarian country that can have its own platform. MRC Free Speech America discovered that seven dictators were active on Twitter, Facebook, and YouTube. They had a total of 50 million followers.
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