Big Tech Oligarchs Facebook and Twitter supress social media sharing of the "New York Post" newspaper story spotlighting evidence of Hunter Biden's pay-for-influence deals with China (via an energy company). I did not see this same suppression happening with Google, to be fair, but what Facebook and Twitter did happens to be outright "interference in an election" and no less than 20 days before the official voting day. How truly shameful! Of course both Facebook and Twitter made feeble attempts to justify their actions by claiming their 'code of ethics' dictates that they "must verify the story before allowing it to be shared on their sites." Facebook did so right from the start, Twitter only acquiessed after threats of facing congressional oversight. That's really rich given all of the unverified mis-information regarding President Trump and conservatives that these hypocrites allow to be circulated on their social media sites unchecked, day in and day out (e.g., all things pertaining to Russian influence over President Trump and his administration, the President's leaked taxes, private conversations between the First Lady and her friends). As it turns out Peter Schweizer, head of the "Government Accountability Institute", contacted Hunter Biden's former buisness partner, who is now serving time in prision. Schweizer obtained permission to access this partner's email account in order to verify that the emails referenced in the "New York Post" story were legitimate. It turns out they are. So there's is the verification, double standard aside.
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In light of the ongoing egregious behavior being exhibited by these social media monopolies in consistantly defying their mandate NOT to operate as news and information platforms, I have to wonder if the United States Congress will finally do their JOB and re-classify Facebook and Twitter as the news and information platforms that they actually are. The U.S. Congress has called the executives running these media companies in to testify before the U.S. Congress yet again, but given the lack of meaningful congressional action in this respect to date, I wouldn't hold my breath that anything will change? Congressional bark tends to be worse than its actual bite? This brings me to my next thought: Why doesn't President Trump announce federal funding toward the end of helping to launch some new upstarts that would then be able to compete -- from an $$$ perspective -- with these existing monopoly platforms? Stranger things could happen .... It would be nice if the media giant FOX News would consider a venture into this arena as well, instead of embarking on their latest gambling venture. Very counter-intuitive ....
10/18/2020 Of course, it goes without saying that the very real and tangible evidence here points to the Chinese government's influence over a potential Biden Adminstration to an extent that puts the entire cooked-up, went absolutely nohwhere "Russia-collusion" narrative to shame. What goes around comes around???
10/17/20 Check out Parler.com --an alternative to Twitter (for twits? ; )
If we don't like the dishonesty in media and social media (e.g, Facebook and Twitter), the fastest way to bring them down IS TO WALK AWAY! Then watch them fold like house of cards they have become.
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