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Forum => Kenya Discussion => Topic started by: Nowayhaha on December 27, 2022, 10:33:21 PM
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https://www.rt.com/news/569016-musk-social-media-censorship/
All social media platforms work with the US government to censor content, Twitter CEO Elon Musk claimed on Tuesday. Documents released by Musk following his purchase of Twitter showed that the platform colluded with the FBI, CIA, Pentagon and other government agencies to suppress information on elections, Ukraine, and Covid-19.
“*Every* social media company is engaged in heavy censorship, with significant involvement of and, at times, explicit direction of the government,”Musk tweeted, adding that “Google frequently makes links disappear, for example.”
Musk was referring to internal Twitter communications published by journalist Matt Taibbi with his approval, which suggested that the platform’s senior executives held regular meetings with members of the FBI and CIA, during which the agencies gave them lists of “hundreds of problem accounts” to suspend in the run-up to the 2020 election.
In addition to Twitter, the government was in contact “with virtually every major tech firm,” Taibbi claimed. “These included Facebook, Microsoft, Verizon, Reddit, even Pinterest.” CIA agents “nearly always” sat in on meetings of these firms with the FBI’s Foreign Influence Task Force, Taibbi claimed, explaining that although this task force was convened to fight alleged election interference by foreign states, it made “mountains of domestic moderation requests.”
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Twitter Files detail Covid censorship campaign
A lawsuit filed earlier this year by the attorneys general of Missouri and Louisiana alleges that officials from no fewer than 12 government agencies met weekly with representatives of Twitter, Facebook, and other Big Tech firms in 2020 to decide which narratives and users to censor, with topics ranging from alleged election interference to Covid-19.
A self-described “free speech absolutist,” Musk purchased Twitter for $44 billion in October. He has since released batches of documents shedding light on the platform’s previously opaque censorship policies. Published by several independent journalists, the document dumps have shown how Twitter suppressedinformation damaging to Joe Biden’s election campaign, colluded with the FBI to remove content the agency wanted hidden, assisted the US military’s online influence campaigns, and censored “anti-Ukraine narratives” on behalf of multiple US intelligence agencies.
The FBI said last week that correspondence between its agents and Twitter staff “show nothing more than examples of our tradition [of] longstanding and ongoing federal government and private sector engagements.”
The White House has refused to answer allegations that the FBI directed Twitter to censor information damaging to Joe Biden’s 2020 campaign
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Of course it happens.
Do you know how much damage if a rogue scientist published on Social media highly sensitive military info??
Muskite is a pure MORON. spending 40bil to study censorship.
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Every gov in the world practices some form of censorship.
So nowadays you read RT News..the only source of true unbiased reporting.
Bloody fakin.
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Then why keep on parroting Western media narrative as if it ithe gospel truth ?
Of course it happens.
Do you know how much damage if a rogue scientist published on Social media highly sensitive military info??
Muskite is a pure MORON. spending 40bil to study censorship.
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so dont come and peddle western media lies here verify first .....
Every gov in the world practices some form of censorship.
So nowadays you read RT News..the only source of true unbiased reporting.
Bloody fakin.
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This really isn't news and glad to hear govts are still advising social media platforms. Facebook, Twitter are honestly for old people like Musk and will hopefully die with that generation.
Tiktok, reddit etc. and the rise of anonymity shields companies from manipulating the masses and I believe the emerging generation, those little psychopaths devoid of empathy despite their shrill on climate change will blow up the world into a dystopia.