Perhaps this, more than anything, is why liberals and the entire Democratic Party media establishment have been up in arms since Elon Musk took the reigns at twitter.
It’s not opposition to free speech directly, though they loath free expression, it’s an opposition to exposing the dirty connection between the Biden administration and tech companies like Twitter and Facebook in orchestrating cover-ups of politically sensitive stories that could hurt Democrats.
Ever since the New York Post broke the story of the Hunter Biden laptop in 2020, and was immediately banned from Twitter and limited on Facebook, public trust in social media companies fell off a cliff. While accounts posting hatred and espousing violence towards conservatives and Donald Trump ran unabated on Twitter, anything that flew in the face of the accepted media narrative was immediately shut down, banished, and silenced.
Now, with Twitter in better hands as Elon Musk continues routing out the woke filth within the company, we may be learning more about how decisions were made to censor stories and shut down debate. According to reports, confirmed by Musk, Twitter is preparing to publicly release files and information on internal discussions related to how and why it chose to censor stories like the Hunter Biden laptop article from the New York Post:
Elon Musk said Twitter would be releasing files on its own ‘free speech suppression,’ in a tweet on Monday.
The billionaire is expected to disclose the full details of Twitter’s 2020 censorship of the New York Post’s reporting on Hunter Biden’s laptop.
The announcement comes days after Musk said releasing information about Twitter’s response to the laptop story was ‘necessary’ if the social media company wanted to win back the public’s trust.
Twitter deliberately prevented users from sharing links to a front-page newspaper article about Hunter Biden’s private life and his controversial business ties to Ukraine in the run-up to the 2020 election between Biden’s father and Trump.
Prior to his $44 billion takeover of Twitter, Musk called the platform’s decision ‘obviously incredibly inappropriate.’
A few days ago, Musk proclaimed the files would be forthcoming:
The Twitter Files on free speech suppression soon to be published on Twitter itself. The public deserves to know what really happened …
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) November 28, 2022
Furthermore, Musk couched the battle for free expression and free speech as a battle for civilization itself:
This is a battle for the future of civilization. If free speech is lost even in America, tyranny is all that lies ahead.
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) November 29, 2022
Tyranny in America is what it looks like when citizens get banished from social media platforms not because they espouse violence but because they say things that are contrary to what the government wants them to say. Twitter and Facebook are private companies so theoretically they can choose what you can and cannot say on their respective platforms. The problem there is the hypocrisy of their decisions and the government’s influence over them.
The trouble arises, however, when it’s discovered the social media censoring of recent years has mostly come at the request of the federal government, not the tech companies themselves. There’s no doubt these companies decided to censure plenty on their own without government involvement, but they also have taken orders and bought into false narratives pushed by government agencies to encourage the suppression of speech.
Case and point, Mark Zuckerberg, CEO of Meta, the company that operates Facebook, stated the FBI warned the company that a Russian disinformation operation was underway and they should “watch” for sketchy information during the fall of 2020. Days later, the Hunter Biden laptop story dropped and Facebook used the FBI’s warning to limit the distribution and reach of the story, a prime example of government involvement in the suppression of speech and journalism.
If Musk follows through on his promise, and there’s every reason to believe he will, we may start to learn more about how the government decided to get involved in the censorship game with the desire to potentially alter the outcome of the 2020 election.
