Liberal bias extends to denying obvious censorship of conservatives

 Fox News:

The Babylon Bee, a satirical conservative website, was locked out of its Twitter account last week after the tech company accused the Bee of violating its rules against "hateful content" for a post jokingly naming Biden administration official Dr. Rachel Levine the Bee’s 2022 "Man of the Year." Dr. Levine is a transgender woman. Twitter said the site would retain access to the account if the tweet was deleted. CEO Seth Dillon has said the site will do no such thing.

A day later, New York Times "Sway" podcast host Kara Swisher asserted there was "no evidence" of political bias against conservatives occurring on social media platforms, a claim reiterated frequently by Democratic lawmakers and liberal media personalities.

Speaking with Fox News Digital, Fox News contributor and "The Federalist" editor-in-chief Mollie Hemingway said the notion that censorship hits both political parties equally simply because a few conservative outlets are allowed to exist on social media platforms is "gaslighting in the extreme."

"You can not possibly have been alive in the last five years and think that social media companies do anything other than amplify left-wing insanity and crush anything from the right that hurts the left," she added.
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A pattern has emerged of right-leaning voices being censored far more often than those on the left.

In a recent example, Rep. Vicky Hartzler, a Republican Senate candidate from Missouri, was suspended from Twitter in February after tweeting about transgender women in sports.

"Women’s sports are for women, not men pretending to be women," she tweeted Monday afternoon from her campaign account. Twitter notified Hartzler she had violated the company’s rules against "hateful content" and would reinstate her account only if she deleted the tweet.

A deputy to Spain's far-right Vox Party, Francisco José Contreras, was locked out of his Twitter account for 12 hours for that same "hateful content" policy in May 2021 after stating that "a man cannot get pregnant" because men have "no uterus or eggs."

District Media Group president Beverly Hallberg said she gave the Babylon Bee credit for standing by its perspective in the face of Twitter cracking down on the transgender issue, only allowing certain opinions to post unfettered.
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On social media, there appear to be certain protected groups who cannot be the subject of jokes.  That is regrettable.  What is worse is the censoring of truthful material as "misinformation" as happened with the NY Post story on the Biden family corruption.  That censorship had disastrous consequences for the country and led to Biden's election and a series of catastrophic Biden-induced disasters on things like energy, along with his Afghan debacle which led to the current bloody war in Ukraine.  These are more than just minor gaffes.

What we now know is that the geeks are not very good at detecting "misinformation."  They just call things they disagree with or things that counter their liberal point of view "disinformation."  There should be consequences for labeling truthful material as "disinformation."

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