The Secondhand Censorship Effect: Big Tech Kept Information from People 195M Times Q1-Q2

Big Tech sent a stark message to conservatives during the second quarter of this year that it will continue to fiercely protect President Joe Biden and censor viewpoints that differ from the left’s narrative on major political issues.

MRC counts during the first quarter. 309 total individual censorship cases This translated into no less than 559,251,589 Times Big Tech was able to keep information secret from users of social media through Secrecy.

The spread of content in many areas was a major concern for Big Tech firms. Wahlen, Joe Biden is President “transgenderism,” from April through June. This was an effort to force Americans into accepting leftist doctrines through discriminatory information control.

These and other instances of censorship are highlighted in MRC Free Speech America’s unique CensorTrack database.

CensorTrack.org from the Media Research Center, has recorded over 4,000 instances of censorship. We examined the first quarter of 2022 for this report. It was during this time that Censorship cases in 133 were identified. MRC Free Speech America analyzed all censored accounts, and added followers to every person or group that was targeted by Big Tech over the three-month period. MRC Free Speech America determined that the secondhand censorship of users affected no less than 49,500,000.152 During the second quarter. 

MRC defines “secondhand censorship” as an amount of information that was kept secret from users via social media.

Big Tech’s 49,500,000.152Keep information about social media users during the second quarter 45,751,437 TimesIn the quarter’s first quarter, tech companies kept platform users information secret. MRC Free Speech America updated its first-quarter secondhand censorship number – adding about 1,449,724 times social media users had information kept from them – as more details of Big Tech’s censorship have emerged since the previous study’s July 20 publication. 

MRC monitors instances of secondhand censorship in major social media platforms such as Facebook, Instagram (TikTok), Twitter, LinkedIn and Spotify.

The secondhand censorship reports only touch the surface of the censorship that occurred during the second quarter 2022. It only includes cases documented from the CensorTrack database. 

Check out this LinkHere is a breakdown of secondhand censorship rates for the first quarter..

Elections

MRC Free Speech America concluded that Big Tech was a problem. Content relating to elections No fewer than a dozen social media users can access this information. 16.007,321 people have viewed this article.Between April and June All 15 instances of censorship are included in this report.

Liberalization New York Times In June, users complained that Facebook had decided to restrict election-related content in 2022 than it did during 2020.

Contrary to popular belief, Times’ reporting, MRC Free Speech America found that Facebook’s election-related censorship persists at an alarming rate. 

According to CensorTrack’s May 10, entry, the platform posted an election-related article by Daily Wire Editor Emeritus Ben Shapiro. PolitiFact was able to assist with fact-checking, and it was flagged. It is The “fact-checker” flagged a Daily Wire article that cited political commentator Dinesh D’Souza’s documentary “2000 Mules” calling the article “partly false,” as “the same information was checked in another post by independent fact-checkers.” The movie examined voter fraud in the 2020 election by using cell phones’ geolocation data. The Secondhand censorship of the fact-check meant that Shapiro’s 8.5 million Facebook friends couldn’t see information linking potential voter fraud to the 2020 election.

Facebook fact-checker Shapiro was also blocked by Twitchy, a conservative website for commentary. Twitchy posted a message on social media that highlighted voter laws. 

Georgia Attorney General Chris Carr tweetedIn May, the second-time Georgian gubernatorial hopeful Stacey AbramsSupported moving the 2021 MLB All-Stars game from Atlanta, Colorado to her state because she had allegedly passed stricter voting laws. That post drew a “false” fact-check, which cited an Abrams op-ed in USA Today Initially, it was pro-boycott but then changed to an anti-boycott perspective. 

Twitchy tweeted side-by-side Below are extracts from each version of the Op-Ed. Facebook initially flagged Twitchy’s article as “missing context”, before it removed the flag. The Facebook fact-check meant that Twitchy’s 1 080,200 Facebook friendsthey were prevented by seeing the post.

Joe Biden is President

CensorTrack.org second-quarter published entries reveal Minimum 6,917.208 timesBig Tech restricted the postings of President Joe Biden to social media users. This secondhand censorship strategy was based on justSeven Individual cases may be censored.

Another victim of Facebook’s fact-checking censors was Texas Public Policy Foundation (TPPF) Chief Economist Vance Ginn. A CensorTrack entry from April 1, shows that Ginn was interviewed on Fox Business by the foundation. Ginn criticised gas price rises in the interview. He said that they were due to Biden’s policy decision to decrease U.S. oil drill. Facebook claimed that the Facebook post did not have the right context and linked to an AFP fact check article. The fact-check called social media posts critical of Biden’s oil policies “misleading,” and claimed that “sharp swings” in energy prices instead came from a “variety of factors.” The platform’s algorithm can negatively affect fact-checked content and reduce their visibility.

Facebook’s censorship potentially Avoided TPPF’s 306,000 Facebook followers fromSeeing basic criticisms of the Biden administration’s economic and energy policies.

TikTok as well as Facebook also targeted five total MRCTV social posts that were critical of Biden in the second quarter. These five posts combined had a secondhand censorship effect totaling to 6.586,208 Times that Big Tech stopped Biden from being criticised by social media users of MRCTVThe second quarter.

Recently, TikTok, a Chinese Communist Party (CCP-linked) website, removed a clip showing Nick Kangadis, MRCTV’s host, talking about intelligence and empathy (or lack thereof), in the Biden administration. This was detailed in a CensorTrack posting from June 15. Kangadis spoke about some of the “regime” of Biden in a cut episode. TikTok removed the video and rejected MRCTV’s appeal, giving only the vague explanation that the content violated its “Community Standards.”

The CCP-linked TikTok’s censorship of Kangadis’s Biden criticism kept information from social media Users have 79.900 times.

“Transgenderism”

MRC counts 25 individual cases of censorship of content critical of so-called “transgenderism” in the second quarter. Followers of these accounts were subject to secondhandcensorship 8111,001 times were used during this quarter.

Twitter perpetrated the most substantial suppression of so-called “transgender”-related content  in the second quarter in June. The platform removed a post by renowned psychologist Jordan Peterson when he used “transgender” actor Elliot Page’s given name, Ellen Page.

Secondhand censorship affected Peterson’s followers 2.800,000.000.

“Remember when pride was a sin? And Ellen Page just had her breasts removed by a criminal physician,” Peterson purportedly tweeted according to screenshotsMikhaila Peterson, his daughter, tweeted the message. Twitter apparently deemed the post to violate its rules against “hateful conduct.”

TikTok also removed an April ad in its database. This was another example of censorship. videoAmala Ekpunobi, PragerU personality. The platform labeled her criticisms of top surgery “Hate speech,” according to an entry in CensorTrack. As a result of this censorship action, secondhand censorship affected Ekpunobi’s TikTok followers 599,400 times because they couldn’t see her post opposing genital mutilation. 

Thirdhand Censorship by Platform

CensorTrack entries revealed that Facebook was the platform with the highest level of secondhand censorship, for the second consecutive quarter.

FacebookSecondhand censorship was experienced by users 30157,298 TimesAccording to data logged into the MRC CensorTrack Database, it was the second quarter.

The largest instance of Facebook’s secondhand censorship in terms of follower count was the suppression of Shapiro’s election-related post detailed in the “Elections” section above.

Number 2. 2 most egregious case of Facebook’s second-quarter secondhand censorship happened on April 5, when the platform flagged a pro-life post by conservative influencers Ben and Candy Carson as “missing context.” The post merely stated that Colorado Gov. Jared Polis (D) had signed a law legalizing abortions “up until the moment of birth.”

The former Housing and Urban Development secretary and his wife called the law “demonic.” They had 5200,000 fans When they were removed.

Twitter – the second worst violator – withheld information from users through secondhand censorship 12.845,270 Times According to CensorTrack, it was the second quarter.

Twitter’s most substantial instance of secondhand censorship is detailed in the Peterson “transgenderism” critique highlighted above. But the platform’s biased censorship affected the second largest number of viewers with secondhand censorship when it censored Human Events journalist Jack PosobiecOn April 10, Posobiec posted on GETTR that his offending Twitter post called Disney “groomers” – apparently referring to the company’s opposition to a recent Florida law – according to a CensorTrack entry.

As a result, secondhand censorship affected Posobiec’s followers 1,700,000 Timesout on the platform and prevented viewers from viewing his viewpoint opposing leftist gender-indoctrination.

TikTok The third-most serious violator of secondhandcensorship during the second quarter in 2022 was It kept users’ information secret for a total number of 4,053,2422 timesIn the first three months of 2012.

Secondhand censorship on TikTok walloped Young America’s Foundation (YAF) harder than any other organization or individual in the second quarter.

MRC Free Speech America counted Six Separate times, the app affiliated with the Chinese Communist Party censored YAF during the second quarter. This kept information from the users of the platform a combined of 1,311,700 times.

Similar to other instances of censorship by TikTok the platform didn’t provide a reason why it had suppressed YAF for the second quarter. This was highlighted in a CensorTrack entry from June 16.

YAF, a youth organization that describes itself as the “principal outreach organization of the Conservative Movement,” makes TikTok videos on a variety of topics, including “transgender” ideology, abortion, woke culture and capitalism.

TikTok took down a YAF video from a political commentator in June earlier. Ben ShapiroA June 15 CensorTrack entry stated that predicted medical experts who support male pregnancy aren’t doctors, but are instead activists. The deletion meant that YAF’s Followers of TikTok: 187,200 couldn’t see content featuring a science-based perspective on so-called “transgenderism.” 

CONCLUSION

Social media users all over the globe continue to be subjected to secondhand censorship from Big Tech.

Censorship does more than silence one individual. It  cramps national debate and dialogue on issues including elections, President Joe Biden, “transgenderism” and many other issues.

National policymakers must act quickly to counter the serious threat from Big Tech censors. This will make it more difficult for our republic to continue and protect free speech.

MRC calls on Americans to press tech companies to stop suppressing opposing views.

Gabriela Pariseau (Catherine Salgado) and Heather Moon were part of this report.

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