Senior U.S. Republican Senator Ted Cruz (R-TX) recently retweeted a report exposing how U.S. technology giants use social media platforms as a weapon to influence the U.S. election. Cruz highlighted a text that read, “Before the election, Twitter and Facebook Trump censored 65 times, but for Joe Biden it was 0 times.” He also added a comment: 65:0. That is to say: only Trump was censored, but not Biden.
The special report recommended by Cruz, entitled SPECIAL REPORT: Big Tech Stole 2020 Election by Weaponizing Platforms, was written by Corinne Weaver She is a graduate of Christendom College and an assistant editor at the Center for Media Studies, and her work has appeared on Fox News, The Guardian, LifeNews and The Federalist.
Weaver reported that a Media Research Center-commissioned poll conducted by The Polling Company showed that one in seven (14 percent) Biden voters in seven major swing states said One in seven (14%) Biden voters in seven major swing states say they rely on election news posted on websites such as Facebook or Twitter as their source of information. The survey involved 1,750 Biden supporters in seven swing states.
Weaver argued that the campaign’s message is only valuable if it is received by the public. Trump and his campaign have suffered the most from the censorship melee at Big Tech. On Twitter and Facebook, conservatives, Trump supporters, and messages unfavorable to the Biden campaign were often suppressed, especially in the months leading up to the 2020 election. Twitter and Facebook censored them 65 times before the election, but there was zero censorship of former Vice President and Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden. Ninety-eight percent of all censorship cases were Twitter censorship.
The New York Post reported that Biden’s son, Hunter Biden, was involved in corruption deals in Ukraine, but the story was immediately censored by Facebook and Twitter. A subsequent McClatchy poll showed that 36 percent of Biden voters had never heard of Hunter Biden because of the censorship crackdown. Of those, 13 percent said they would not have voted for Biden if they had known.
Another story published in the New York Post suggesting Biden had corrupt deals with the Chinese Communist Party had a similar fate. Weaver noted that another national survey showed that 4 percent of all Biden voters would not have voted for Biden if they had known about the story.
Republican Ron Johnson, chairman of the U.S. Senate Homeland Security Committee, also said the media’s suppression of the scandal involving Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden’s son has caused serious interference in the election.
Weaver, citing an analysis by Newsweek, argued that such suppression was effective. The New York Times’ anti-Trump story on taxes was read by about 5.37 million people, while the New York Post’s story on Biden’s corrupt dealings was read by only about 1.94 million.
The refusal of several major U.S. media outlets to report the truth has left voters in the dark. Many Biden voters were unaware of the extensive censorship used by big tech companies to ban conservatives and Trump supporters from speaking out. Polls show: 34 percent of Biden voters did not know that Trump had been censored by Twitter and Facebook, while Biden was not censored at all; 52 percent of Biden voters did not know that Facebook allowed Antifa pages, while many conservative pages were removed; 60 percent of Biden voters did not know that Facebook and Twitter prevented users from satirizing Biden and his campaign or posting their satirical cartoons.
Weaver’s article writes that Big Tech, while denying that it censors conservatives at every turn, is finding new ways to suppress, flag and delete conservative postings on its platforms. The liberal media, on the other hand, cover up Big Tech’s censorship of conservatives. The media ignores reports of Big Tech’s censorship rhetoric, ignores reports of tech company hearings in the House and Senate, and brands fears of censorship as “conspiracy theories” so that censorship appears to be non-existent.
Weaver writes that 26 of the 100 new technology policies that Big Tech will introduce in 2020 are seen as election-related, such as Twitter’s attempt to disable simple content retweeting and Facebook’s plan to ban political ads after Election Day.
Weaver noted that big tech companies were unhappy with President Trump’s win in 2016, so they did everything they could to prevent him from winning in 2020. That’s why companies like Facebook, Google and Twitter chose to side with Biden ahead of the 2020 election and did everything they could to push for his victory.
According to OpenSecrets.org, 90 percent of Twitter and Facebook employee donations went to the Democratic campaign; members of Alphabet, Microsoft, Amazon, Facebook and Apple contributed $10.24 million, $10,243,589 to the Biden campaign during the 2020 presidential campaign, and Trump received only $427.047 from the aforementioned large tech companies, 047.
When the left accepts mail-in ballots, so do the big tech companies, which also means that any criticism of mail-in ballots needs to be hastily suppressed. While media outlets including CNN and TechCrunch have warned of the dangers of mail-in ballots before, Trump came under scrutiny from Twitter when he denounced “mail-in ballots” as “substantial fraud” in May 2020.
Weaver’s analysis said that large technology companies have incredible power to inform and influence users. They know this and have abused this power to help steal the presidential election. Their goal was to influence the election, even after the election, and they continued to fight Trump through censorship. Trump and his campaign were censored on Twitter at least 486 times, with more than 400 of those occurring after Nov. 3.
Weaver concluded by noting that if Big Tech has so much power and influence to rig elections, there will no longer be true fairness for any election. This is an issue that the U.S. political parties, Congress and the federal government must all address before the next election.
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