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REPORT: False Accusation: The Unfounded Claim That Social Media Companies Censor Conservatives | NYU Stern

By Paul Barret and J. Grant Sims on February 1, 2021
Algorithms and Automation Regulation, Policy, & Platform Governance

Conservatives commonly accuse the major social media companies of censoring the political right. In response to Twitter’s decision on January 8, 2021, to exclude him from the platform, then-President Donald Trump accused the company of “banning free speech” in coordination with “the Democrats and Radical Left.”

Two days earlier, Trump had included the ideological bias claim in an incendiary address to supporters, some of whom then participated in a riot inside the U.S. Capitol. “The radical left tries to blacklist you on social media,” Trump said in his speech. “They don’t let the message get out nearly as they should.”

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Source: REPORT: False Accusation: The Unfounded Claim That Social Media Companies Censor Conservatives — NYU Stern Center for Business and Human Rights

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