On Monday, Twitter debuted a new feature that will allow users to add notes to other people’s tweets. It’s a user-generated fact-checking system, and it’s called Birdwatch. As Reason’s Robby Soave details, In the pilot phase, these notes will be available on a separate website rather than Twitter itself—though the tentative plan is to eventually add the feature to the main platform.
Twitter suspended yet another stack of conservative accounts. This occurred less than two weeks after the hashtag “hang Mike Pence” was allowed to trend on the platform for a whole night and hit over 14,000 tweets.
Government bureaucracies have to justify their existence, and that means creating problems even if none exist.
Federal Heritage Minister, Steven Guilbeault, has been vocal on social media recently regarding his opinion on Big Tech’s censorship of prominent figures and free speech platforms.
In the wake of the January 6 attack on the Capitol, Big Tech has crossed a Rubicon. Facebook and Twitter booted President Donald Trump. Apple, Google, and Amazon eviscerated Parler, the conservative alternative to Twitter. Yet it seems the Left will demand Big Tech crack down on conservative speech even further.
Pro-police Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene’s personal Twitter account has been temporarily suspended for the next 12 hours for posts that the social media platform claims could lead to a “risk of violence,” according to a statement by her office Sunday evening.
“How can a company act as if it was all powerful, omnipotent, as a sort of Spanish Inquisition on what is expressed?” he asked.
Fox News’ Tucker Carlson had very scathing commentary directed at Steven Guilbeault, Canada’s minister of culture for his announcement that Canada plans to censor social media.
Adults should be able to decide what they agree and disagree with, without politicians inserting themselves into the process.
In a recent thread on his own platform, Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey discussed the recent suspension of President Donald Trump, stating that he believes it was the right decision and that the mass blacklisting of Trump by the Silicon Valley Masters of the Universe was not coordinated, writing “More likely: companies came to their own conclusions or were emboldened by the actions of others.”
Project Veritas released a bombshell video on Thursday showing Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey admitting that he plans to ramp up the anti-Conservative censorship on the platform.
Social media giants Facebook and Twitter have collectively seen $51.2 billion in combined market value wiped out over the last two trading sessions since they banned President Donald Trump from their platforms following the U.S. Capitol breach.
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s cabinet plans to introduce legislation this year that will tamp down on Twitter and Facebook posts that are considered to be hurtful or offensive.
Though hate speech is already forbidden in Canada, Heritage Minister Steven Guilbeault’s office has circulated a briefing note that outlines the Liberal government’s intentions.
When Twitter and Facebook decided to ban President Donald Trump, censor the New York Post, and start erasing other people and institutions from their platforms, they started down a path which will have enormous consequences for them and for America.
