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Except it's massively upvoted on Facebook and other platforms. Study after study has shown the most viral political stories with the most engagement align with
by azinman2 5y ago
Except it's massively upvoted on Facebook and other platforms. Study after study has shown the most viral political stories with the most engagement align with conservative politics. So it's just not true that this censorship is pervasive. I think it's just a handful of cases of 'censorship', like Alex Jones and Trump, which have lead to actual violence violating obvious terms of service, that is all the right can point to.
But really it's bigger than that -- they need a new boogieman. Big tech is that because most of the winners from tech aren't the GOP-base, so it's easy to bash on. And banning Trump has got them all riled up even if there's no truth to the systematic bias beyond him specifically. In fact social media has largely propelled Trump and others into the spotlight in the first place.
- brodouevencode 5y agoThe context was within the walls of HN.