The New York Times is whining that Big Tech won’t be focused on eliminating “election misinformation” during the 2022 midterms.
The Times published a pathetic sob story headlined, “As Midterms Loom, Elections Are No Longer Top Priority for Meta C.E.O [Mark Zuckerberg].” The newspaper fretted how Zuckerberg, “who once said securing elections was ‘the most important thing,’ has shifted Meta’s focus to the metaverse. It could also have practical implications in the real world.” Forget about the “real-world implications” that Zuckerberg’s Orwellian metaverse has in its own right, The Times’ view of “real world implications” appears to be that Meta allegedly won’t be censoring users as much as it once did during the 2020 presidential election. “Safeguarding elections is no longer Mr. Zuckerberg’s top concern, said four Meta employees with knowledge of the situation,” the newspaper bleated. “Election misinformation remains rampant online.”
The Times couldn’t contain itself and tried to scare readers about what Meta’s shift in focus could mean for “faith in the electoral system” in the face of the leftist Jan. 6 Committee hearings:
Meta (which also controls Instagram and WhatsApp) could see its focus shift, which may have wide-reaching implications as Americans lose faith in their electoral system. The Jan. 6 Capitol Riot hearings have shown how unstable elections can become. Many political candidates have entered the race this November with the false belief that Donald J. Trump had been stripped of the 2020 election. However, social media continues to be an important way for voters to contact them.
However The Times didn’t just limit its frustrations to Meta. It complained also that Twitter and other Big Tech platforms were being allegedly retrenched in their election-censorship operations.
Others social media platforms have stopped focusing on election coverage. According to three people familiar with the situation, Twitter stopped marking and removing misinformation about elections in March 2021. Musk said that he wanted fewer regulations regarding what content can be published on Twitter.
MRC Free Speech America’s CensorTrack database logged 3,975 cases of censorship as of Thursday morning; 1,016 (26 percent) of those cases were from Facebook alone. The Meta Oversight Board’s annual report showed that it received “more than a million appeals” on the company’s “content moderation decisions” between October 2020 and December 2021. More than 8 in 10 of user appeals to restore content to Facebook or Instagram involved Meta’s so-called “rules on bullying, hate speech or violence & incitement.”
Conservatives under attackGet in touch with The New York Times 1-800-698-4637Demand that the newspaper cease promoting online censorship.
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