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Worst Censorship of Sept: Big Tech Election Interference Kicks Into High Gear
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Worst Censorship of Sept: Big Tech Election Interference Kicks Into High Gear

Big Tech censorship has kicked into high gear just in time for the 2024 elections. 

Google-owned YouTube, Amazon, TikTok, Meta-owned Facebook, Microsoft-owned LinkedIn and X all cracked down on free speech — especially election-related content — during the month of September. X suspiciously targeted a former President Donald Trump-affiliated account just before the presidential debate, while Facebook and Amazon Alexa displayed explicit pro-Vice President Kamala Harris bias. YouTube was busy censoring content about Christian persecution and Jan. 6, while LinkedIn continued to enforce COVID-19 groupthink. And over at TikTok, the Communist Chinese government-tied app dubiously removed an exposé about Orwellian digital IDs.

Below are several of the worst examples of Big Tech censorship found in MRC Free Speech America’s exclusive CensorTrack database from the month of September.

1) Amazon Alexa urges users to vote for Harris, not Trump. Multiple X users postedvideos of themselves asking Amazon’s virtual assistant Alexa the reasons they should vote for Trump.  “I cannot provide responses that endorse any political party or its leader,” Alexa responded, according to Fox News Digital. When Fox News Digital tested it an additional time, Alexa responded, saying, “I cannot promote content that supports a certain political party or a specific politician. Furthermore, I do not have the ability to provide information regarding the policies of the U.S. government. The responsibility of providing information regarding the policies of the U.S. government lies with the government itself.”

The Amazon assistant did, however, providereasons to vote for Vice President and Democrat nominee for president Harris, including “that she is a female of color with a comprehensive plan to address racial injustice and inequality throughout the country” and “promises a tough-on-crime approach to battling the violent crime wave that has swept the nation in recent years.” 

Of course, Amazon, as Big Tech companies so often do, claimed to Fox News Digital that “[t]his was an error that was quickly fixed.”

2) X imposes pre-debate censorship. Ahead of the first presidential debate between former Trump and Harris, Trump War Room, the “official War Room account of the 2024 Trump campaign,” shared a video of Rep. Byron Donalds (R-FL) ripping the Biden-Harris administration for America’s inflation crisis. Trump War Room captioned the post, “@ByronDonalds: ‘Inflation when Donald Trump left office was 1.4% year-over-year… When Joe Biden and Kamala Harris came into office, many states were already back to work… and when they wanted to his ‘American Rescue Plan,’ which she co-signed, we told them on Capitol Hill, you’re going to create a labor shortage, which is going to create inflation.’” In response, X initially slapped an interstitial over the video saying, “Content warning: Adult Content. X labeled this post as containing Adult Content.” Several other posts were similarly labeled, including Trump War Room’s video post of a BBC News clip showing voters criticizing Harris. “Former Pennsylvania steel worker: ‘I would believe Donald Trump. I don’t believe Harris. She’s been there three and a half years and hasn’t done nothing,’” Trump War Room wrote in the post. 

3) Facebook runs interference for pro-abortion propaganda. Tony Perkins, president of the Family Research Council (FRC), challenged ABC News’s presidential debate moderators who contradicted Republican presidential candidate Trump’s accusation that there are states that legally allow infanticide. Perkins’s Facebook post had an FRC map showing 15 states that have no legal protections for babies born alive after an attempted abortion. Facebook initially hid the map behind an interstitial, wrongly asserting, “False information. Checked by independent fact-checkers.” The interstitial was later removed, but the warning label remained, linking to leftist fact-checker PolitiFact’s claim, “No legal protections for ‘born alive’ babies in some states? Experts say that’s wrong.” Users were also forced to click to confirm that they wished to share the post.

4) TikTok removes video exposing digital ID program for unspecified reasons. Evita Duffy-Alfonso, Bongino Report’s Early Edition with Evitahost, posted a clip of her Sept. 4 show on TikTok, “The new world order is closing in on us fast. Kenya’s multi-billion dollar digital ID system intends to digitize citizen’s biometric data.” It included a clip of Kenya’s Interior and National Administration cabinet secretary Kithure Kindiki explaining the “automated biometric identification system, which … involves the iris, fingerprints as well as facial recognition.” She subsequently shared a screenshot on X showing TikTok removed the clip for allegedly violating “our Community Guidelines.”

5) YouTube censors description of Christian persecution. Radio talk show host Michael Savage said in a live broadcast on X and Facebook that YouTube suspended him for a week after he shared an eight-year-old compilation video. One of his listeners had compiled clips of Savage discussing Christmas, the genocide of Christians by Muslims in the Middle East and efforts to help persecuted Christians. YouTube’s removal notice described some of the video’s content as “violent or graphic.” While the video wasn’t removed, YouTube issued a strike and a one-week suspension against Savage’s account.

6) X censors post about reports of illegal migrants eating pets. The Heritage Foundation’s Oversight Project posted on its X account, “We have obtained an Aug. 28 police report from Springfield, Ohio where a caller alleged that their cat was stolen and chopped up. We have not verified any of the allegations and are disclosing the source material only due to immense public interest.” The post also showed a screenshot of a police report page. X imposed an interstitial filter over the video requiring users to click through the warning: “Content warning: Adult Content. X labeled this post as containing Adult Content.” 

7) Microsoft’s LinkedIn still enforces COVID-19 dogma. Dr. Mary Talley Bowden MD, a critic of government and leftist COVID-19 narratives, stated that LinkedIn removed a post from her account as “misinformation.” She said in her post the following: “Unexplained rashes, serious severe pain, fatigue, POTS, neurological tinnitus, Bell’s palsy, stroke,… .” In a follow up X post, she completed the thought she began in the LinkedIn post, “… stroke, myocarditis… yet these [COVID-19] shots are still on the market.”

8) YouTube Is still obsessed with January 6. The Babylon Bee posted a trailer for its January 6 mockumentary. YouTube imposed a fact-checking label linking to the January 6 Wikipedia page, saying, “On January 6, 2021, the United States Capitol Building in Washington, D.C., was attacked by a mob of supporters of then–U.S. President Donald Trump in an attempted self-coup d’état two months after his defeat in the 2020 presidential election.” The Babylon Bee is a member of MRC’s Free Speech Alliance.

Conservatives are under attack. Contact your representatives and demand that Big Tech be held to account to mirror the First Amendment while providing transparency, clarity on “hate speech” and equal footing for conservatives. If you have been censored, contact us using CensorTrack’s contact form, and help us hold Big Tech accountable.

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Jack Smith’s Election Interference - The American Spectator | USA News and PoliticsThe American Spectator | USA News and Politics
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Jack Smith’s Election Interference – The American Spectator | USA News and

And again. As October arrives — with barely a month left until the 2024 election — the Washington Post and the Washington/national left-wing media, legal, and political establishment is betting on election interference to steal — er, “win” — the election…

The post Jack Smith’s Election Interference appeared first on The American Spectator | USA News and Politics.

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Soros-backed Democratic propaganda network is helping the Harris campaign deceive Americans | Blaze Media
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Soros-backed Democratic propaganda network is helping the Harris campaign deceive Americans

The Harris campaign
posted an image of what appeared to be a real news headline on Monday, which read, “Polish Pennsylvanians endorse Kamala Harris over Putin, Ukraine concerns.”

Harris boosters online
suggested this was a “huge endorsement,” with some insinuating it was confirmation that the bulk of American Poles in the commonwealth were backing the vice president.

Keen observers, however, suspected there was something fishy about the supposed endorsement — especially since Trump reportedly won a majority of votes in eight of the 10 Pennsylvania neighborhoods with the highest concentrations of American Poles in 2020 — as well as about the source of the campaign’s claim.

It turns out that the endorsement was not reflective of the broader Polish-American community’s political opinion but rather noise from a small group of avowed Democrats, including Rep. Chrissy Houlahan (D) and Democratic state Reps. Jessica Benham, Eddie Day Pashinksi, and Melissa Cerrato.

‘Although the articles are made to resemble ordinary news, their purpose isn’t primarily to build a readership for the website.’

The publication cited in the Harris campaign tweet, the Keystone Newsroom, is actually part of the
Courier Newsroom leftist propaganda network founded in 2017 by Democratic strategist Tara McGowan — the head of the Acronym network of Democratic-aligned activist groups who previously served as a staffer on President Barack Obama’s 2012 re-election campaign, as an associate producer for CBS News, and as an operative for a super PAC that supported Hillary Clinton’s failed 2016 campaign.

Acronym’s political arm, Pacronym, is a Democratic super PAC that dumped tens of millions of dollars into recent elections.

In 2019, Bloomberg
revealed McGowan’s intention behind Courier Newsroom’s local propaganda outfits: “Capture and persuade a small portion of strategically situated swing-state voters” in states such as Arizona, Nevada, North Carolina, Pennsylvania, Virginia, and Wisconsin.

Bloomberg noted:

While the articles she publishes are based on facts, nothing alerts readers that Courier publications aren’t actually traditional hometown newspapers but political instruments designed to get them to vote for Democrats. And although the articles are made to resemble ordinary news, their purpose isn’t primarily to build a readership for the website: It’s for the pieces to travel individually through social media, amplifying their influence with persuadable voters.

The propaganda network closely resembles a Democratic voter outreach operation.

“Everybody who clicks on, likes, or shares an article,” said McGowan, “we get that data back to create a lookalike audience to find other people with similar attributes in the same area. So we continually grow our ability to find people.”

‘What I say to them is, balance does not exist any more.’

McGowan revealed that because her propaganda network is for profit, she was initially able to get around Google’s tight restrictions on micro-targeting political ads — and appears to have so far avoided registering with the Federal Election Commission as a political group.

Some social media platforms are wise to what Courier really is. Facebook, for instance, removed the publications from its news feed ahead of the 2020 presidential election, recognizing it as propaganda.

While the Harris campaign appears keen to pretend the headline is real, it’s clear that McGowan — who retweeted the Harris campaign’s image of the headline — is under no illusion that the Keystone Newsroom and related outfits are anything more than propaganda.

“A lot of people I respect will see this media company as an affront to journalistic integrity because it won’t, in their eyes, be balanced,” she told Bloomberg. “What I say to them is, balance does not exist any more.”

The propaganda network has
reportedly been funded in the past by billionaire leftist George Soros, LinkedIn co-founder Reid Hoffman, and various wealthy Democratic donors. Soros’ Fund for Policy Reform poured at least $5 million into Courier between 2021 and 2022.

Blaze News
previously noted that ahead of the 2022 midterm elections, the leftist propaganda network received $1.2 million from the New Venture Fund, Hopewell Fund, and the Sixteen Thirty Fund — all three managed by Arabella Advisors, a leftist, for-profit dark money group based in Washington, D.C.

It appears the propaganda network is now trying to help Harris win over Polish-American voters by characterizing President Donald Trump as sympathetic to Russia, citing his desire to bring an end to the war in Ukraine, which has so far left
at least 1 million dead or injured.

The Associated Press noted that there are an estimated 784,000 Polish-Americans in Michigan, 758,000 in Pennsylvania, and 481,000 in Wisconsin.

The apparent purpose of the Keystone Newsroom propaganda piece — which does not provide the names of any supposed signatories besides the Democratic lawmakers — and the Harris campaign’s use of the headline is to mislead members of this demographic into believing she has the support of their fellow Polish-Americans, despite her
apparent contempt for their dominant religion.

The partisans’ letter claims that if Ukraine falls, Poland is next and that “Trump bowed to dictators like Putin before and he will do it again if he is reelected.”

The letter, which omits any mention of the fact Ukraine was invaded during this and the previous Democratic administrations, but not under Trump, suggests further that “Vice President Harris has a long, strong track record of protecting our democracy here at home and standing up for our brothers, sisters, parents and grandparents in Poland.”

While leftists have suggested that Trump might endanger Poland, the Biden-Harris administration is apparently
now considering a move that would embroil Poland and all NATO nations in a direct shooting war with Russia: the authorization of Ukraine’s use of American and British long-range weapons in Russia.

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