RNC and Trump Campaign Warn Facebook and Twitter Not to Censor Conservatives

Calvin Freiburger : May 30, 2018
Lifesitenews.com

"We recognize that Facebook and Twitter operate in liberal corporate cultures. However, rampant political bias is inappropriate for a widely used public forum." -RNC Chair Ronna McDaniel

(Washington, DC)—[Lifesitenews.com] The heads of the Republican National Committee (RNC) and President Donald Trump's re-election campaign have called on Facebook and Twitter to guarantee that conservatives will not be suppressed on their platforms during this fall's midterm election campaigns. (Photo: Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg/via LifeSiteNews)

"We recognize that Facebook and Twitter operate in liberal corporate cultures. However, rampant political bias is inappropriate for a widely used public forum," RNC chair Ronna McDaniel and Trump 2020 campaign manager Brad Parscale wrote in the letter to Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg and Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey. "What's more, the consequences to our democratic society are profound."

The letter referenced numerous recent censorship allegations against the social media giants, including that former Facebook workers have admitted to manipulating the "trending news" feature to exclude topics of interest to conservatives, Facebook's suppression of traffic to conservative video bloggers Diamond and Silk, Facebook's plan to implement a subjective "trust" system for prioritizing publishers, Twitter insiders' admission of "shadow-banning" conservative users, and both platforms' reliance on left-wing organizations for "fact-checking" and other advice.

In April, the conservative Media Research Center released a 50-page report detailing these and many other accusations of bias and censorship against the companies, as well as similar complaints directed at YouTube and Google...

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