There’s not much to be said here beyond the headline, but keep in mind one of the biggest fears among liberals is that Elon Musk could reinstate Donald Trump’s Twitter account and he could spread disinformation in the run-up to the 2024 presidential election. One thing is certain: There was nothing “secret” about Trump’s ban from Twitter. But without a hint of irony, MSNBC’s Ari Melber warns that Musk now could “secretly turn down the reach” of one party’s candidate, and we might not even find out about it until after the election. Shocking.
“You could secretly ban one party’s candidate…secretly turn down the reach of their stuff and turn up the reach of something else and the rest of us might not even find out about it until AFTER the election.”
— Mary Margaret Olohan (@MaryMargOlohan) April 26, 2022
This is so perfect I almost can’t believe it’s real https://t.co/32cqMY5N0Z
— Bari Weiss (@bariweiss) April 26, 2022
Remember this?https://t.co/0CsYJ58zgn
— Mary Margaret Olohan (@MaryMargOlohan) April 26, 2022
Throooowback https://t.co/bfs6OnQ9QY
— Mary Margaret Olohan (@MaryMargOlohan) April 26, 2022
and this? https://t.co/hD8ZmVilST
— Mary Margaret Olohan (@MaryMargOlohan) April 26, 2022
or the time Twitter suspended over 70k accounts after Jan. 6?https://t.co/n7W8C06f9R
— Mary Margaret Olohan (@MaryMargOlohan) April 26, 2022
This guy’s catching up on all the news for the last few years.
— Mark Weissman (@Mark_Weissman) April 26, 2022
I keep telling myself and there is no way in hell they are this oblivious but my God I'm consistently wrong
— Jay Kins (@JayKins8) April 26, 2022
Hmmm… Sounds an awful lot like that @time article about “election fortification”. #ConfessionThroughProjection
— Viva Frei (@thevivafrei) April 26, 2022
Indeed, forgetting that it has been already happening – and now he's complaining that somebody else "could" do it even though they are pushing for free speech instead of controlled speech. Sounds like a bit like the scales are being balanced.
— Ron Duncan (@RonDuncan7) April 26, 2022
Translation: “we fear what we’ve been blatantly doing can now be done to us”
— Erik Thomas (@The_Smacks) April 26, 2022
Hey Gander, it's Goose:)
— John Rich (@johnrich) April 26, 2022
Quick question. Was that guy living under a rock for the last year and a half?
— stick24 (@realstick24) April 26, 2022
Twitter hired a woman who actually did this to conservatives during the election. That was her job. She was mad when they told her she could stop because the election was over and ‘they’ won. This is on the record.
— the Captal de Buch (@TheCaptal) April 26, 2022
"Hey, no fair, that's our playbook!" – @DNC
— Angus T. Kirk (@angusparvo) April 26, 2022
Unreal. Imagine that the powers behind social media could secretly turn down the reach of someone’s stuff before an election? Crazy.
Related:
HuffPost asks Twitter why they haven’t banned Donald Trump’s spokesperson from the platform https://t.co/SAKUg9gaar
— Twitchy Team (@TwitchyTeam) July 20, 2021
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