“This is why Big Tech needs big changes,” House Republican Whip Steve Scalise (R-LA) said Tuesday, citing Twitter’s hypocritical censorship practices.
Scalise calls out Twitter posting a tweet:
This is what Twitter allows you to do: Share the personal information of someone who has been doxxed. But not relevant information about a presidential candidate’s adult son? Big Tech is in dire need of major changes.
Twitter failed to censure Washington Post Reporter Taylor Lorenz’s tweet linking to an article promising to reveal the identity (“doxxing”) of the person running a conservative account that posts outrageous comments made by liberals.
In the weeks that lead up to the 2020 Presidential Election, however, Twitter banned the account The New York Post when it tweeted a link to an article exposing scandalous emails on the laptop of Hunter Biden, then-candidate Joe Biden’s son. Twitter also blocked users from retweeting the Post’s story. Facebook, another social media giant, suppressed user views of the Post’s Hunter Biden video about the story.
NewsBusters documented that the Hunter Biden story was repeatedly and aggressively suppressed by social media platforms. What’s more, a survey conducted following the election by The Polling Company reveals that 9.4% of Joe Biden voters would not have voted for him, if they had known the full details of the Hunter Biden scandal, flipping key states and likely resulting in President Donald Trump’s reelection.
Here’s the deal:
Twitter let’s you share the private information of a private citizen who was doxxed.
But not relevant information about a presidential candidate’s adult son?
Big Tech is in dire need of major changes.
— Steve Scalise (@SteveScalise) April 19, 2022
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Editor’s Note:Original publication of this piece on CNSNews.com
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