Twitter Drops Far-Left Southern Poverty Law Center as "Safety Partner"

Calvin Freiburger : Apr 17, 2019
LifeSiteNews.com

"It is long overdue that social media companies stop using the hypocritical SPLC as a reliable source to police their content and discriminate against pro-family and conservative nonviolent organizations." – Mat Staver, Liberty Counsel

(San Francisco, CA) — [Lifesitenews.com] Social media giant Twitter has quietly severed ties with the left-wing Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) amid mounting reports of scandal within the organization and insider claims that SPLC's "hate" monitoring is a money-making scam. (Photo Credit: Twitter/ via LifeSiteNews)

Twitter previously identified SPLC as a "safety partner" that helps weed out "hateful conduct and harassment" on the platform, but the Daily Caller reports that their partnership may no longer be the case. "The SPLC is not a member of Twitter's Trust and Safety Council or a partner the company has worked with recently," an anonymous source inside Twitter said. The SPLC no longer appears on the company's Safety Partners list.

SPLC has long been controversial for its history of labeling mainstream Christian and/or conservative organizations – including Alliance Defending Freedom, Family Research Council, the Ruth Institute, the David Horowitz Freedom Center, and Jihad Watch – "hate groups" to be blacklisted from various online platforms and services. The organization has managed to pressure companies like MasterCard and GoFundMe to (at least temporarily, in some cases) deny services to conservative figures and groups.

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