The U.S. economy continues to rebound at a historic rate after being ravaged by the coronavirus pandemic and the public and government response to it earlier this year. It is good news for American workers and anyone confident in the Trump administration’s predicted V-shaped recovery. The Commerce Department reported the gross domestic product increased at…
I’m sure Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey is a busy man, but a bit of beard maintenance might have done him some wonders during his virtual appearance Wednesday before the Senate Commerce, Science, and Transportation Committee. Dorsey’s beard, which looked like something you might have seen sported by some guru at the Esalen Institute in the 1960s,…
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One day after Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey admitted that the company needs ‘more accountability’ over its selective political bias, the social media giant suspended US Customs and Border Protection (CBP) Commissioner Mark Morgan for a post touting the southern border wall for helping the country ‘stop gang members, murderers, sexual predators, and drugs from entering our country."
Morgan’s account was locked on Wednesday afternoon for violating Twitter’s "hateful conduct" rules, according to The Federalist.
"You may not promote violence against, threaten, or harass other people on the basis of race, ethnicity, national origin, sexual orientation, gender, gender identity, religious affiliation, age, disability, or serious disease," wrote Twitter in an email explaining the suspension. And as the Federalist notes "the commissioner did not threaten anyone based on race, national origin, or anything else"
"If you look at the tweet in question again," Morgan told The Federalist, "every mile helps us stop gang members, murderers, and pedophiles from entering our country. It’s just a fact."
This is not just twitter’s fault. It’s on us. For 4 years, journalists, members of Congress, academics have demanded social media companies protect us from bad speech. Well, it’s gone too far. Disagree with the CBP tweet? Great. Engage, dispute and debunk it. Don’t censor it. https://t.co/5bdFWGzsfj
The Federalist also notes that Morgan has been allowed to freely post similar tweets touting CBP’s accomplishments, writing that it’s "not clear what has recently changed in Twitter’s algorithm or policing that resulted in this post’s shutdown of his account when other similar posts went unblocked."
Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey falsely claimed during a hearing of the Senate Commerce Committee hearing today that links to the New York Post’s bombshell stories on Biden family corruption were no longer banned on its platform, despite the ban remaining on the Post‘s story on alleged corrupt deals with communist China. The link ban was only removed after Dorsey’s testimony.
The New York Postreports that during today’s Senate Commerce Committee hearing on Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act, Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey falsely answered senators that his platform lifted a ban on users tweeting articles from the Post’s Huter Biden exposé.
However, the Post states that the ban remained on one of the publication’s bombshell stories and was only lifted after Dorsey made the claim. Dorsey told Senator Ted Cruz (R-TX), “Anyone can tweet these articles,” in reference to the Post’s articles on emails implication Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden in his son’s work in China and Ukraine.
Abigail Marone, a rapid response official on President Trump’s re-election campaign, immediately tweeted that Dorsey was not being truthful in his statement:
Until some time after Dorsey’s statement, Twitter users were not able to share the link to the article on the alleged Biden-linked China business deal. When Twitter users attempted to share the link, they received a message stating: “Something went wrong, but don’t fret — let’s give it another shot.”
Twitter told users attempting to share the article: “We can’t complete this request because this link has been identified by Twitter or our partners as being potentially harmful. Visit our Help Center to learn more.”
Dorsey repeatedly claimed that Twitter had lifted the ban on sharing the Post’s articles, stating: “Our team made a fast decision. The enforcement action, however, of blocking URLs, both in tweets and in DM direct messages we believe was incorrect and we changed it.”
Cruz replied: “You’re still blocking. You’re still blocking their posts, right now today you’re blocking their posts.” To which Dorsey stated: “We’re not blocking The Post, anyone can tweet these articles.”
Discussing the Post’s official Twitter account remaining locked, Dorsey said that the Post “[has] to log into their account, which they can do at this minute, delete the original tweet, which fell under our original enforcement actions, and they can tweet the exact same material to the exact same article and it would go through.”
Lucas Nolan is a reporter for Breitbart News covering issues of free speech and online censorship. Follow him on Twitter @LucasNolanor email him at lnolan@breitbart.com
White House press secretary Kayleigh McEnany on Thursday slammed Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey for his social media platform’s censorship of the New York Post’s story about 2020 Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden’s son, Hunter, and his business dealings overseas.
McEnany, whose Twitter profile was temporarily suspended and tweets were taken down for sharing the Hunter Biden story, described Dorsey on FNC’s “Fox & Friends” as a “mob artist.”
“[S]hame on Jack Dorsey,” McEnany stated. “As the New York Post noted today, this is a mob artist. This is a shakedown effort to say, ‘Delete the Hunter Biden story. The media won’t report on it. Social media will censor it. Delete it, or we will censor the fourth-largest newspaper in the United States. We will block them from social media.’ Big tech needs to be handled and the president in the second term will do just that because there needs to be equity. There needs to a lack of censorship.”
She doubled down on remarks made a week earlier in which she accused big tech of acting like big governments or “rouge regimes” to “censor one side of the aisle.”
“This is what happens in North Korea, not the United States,” McEnany advised.
When asked difficult or uncomfortable questions, such as whether she is a socialist, Democratic vice-presidential candidate Kamala Harris tends to laugh as a defense mechanism.
Amid rampant rioting and looting over the police shooting of Walter Wallace, the Philadelphia City Council has passed a bill banning the use of tear gas by officers against "peaceful protesters."
Twitter has suspended U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) Commissioner Mark Morgan for a post in which he touted the benefits of the wall on the U.S.-Mexico border, according to a new report. “According to screenshots shared exclusively with The Federalist, Twitter locked Morgan’s account Wednesday afternoon for apparently violating platform rules governing ‘hateful conduct’ […]
Fox News host Tucker Carlson reported Wednesday night that "a collection of confidential documents related to the Biden family" his show had obtained suddenly went missing while in the hands of an unnamed shipping company.
According to Carlson, while he and his producer were in Los Angeles, they received the documents — which he said "are authentic, they’re real, and they’re damning" — in the New York office and asked for them to be shipped to L.A.
A Fox News producer reportedly shipped those documents via overnight service — but the documents never arrived, instead someone within the shipping company allegedly opened the package and removed the contents.
Through all of this, Carlson chose not to name the shipping company in question.
On Thursday, Business Insider reported that UPS told the outlet that it was the company that had lost the documents and that it was running an internal investigation to figure out just what happened.
UPS Corporate Media Relations Director Glenn Zaccara told Business Insider that Carlson’s "package was reported with missing contents as it moved within our network."
"UPS is conducting an urgent investigation into this matter and regrets that the package was damaged," Zaccara said, according to Business Insider. "The integrity of our network and the security of our customers’ goods are of utmost importance. We will remain in frequent, direct contact with Fox News as we learn more through our investigation."
Carlson on Wednesday offered praise for the shipping company’s efforts, saying, "They went far and beyond, but they found nothing."
He noted that UPS "went through the office in New York where our producer dropped that package off" and "combed the entire, cavernous sorting facility. They used pictures of what we had sent so that searchers would know what to look for."
The company also searched the vehicles and plane that carried the package, Business Insider said.
Carlson concluded that "the company has no idea — and no working theory, even — about what happened to this trove of materials, documents that are directly relevant to the presidential campaign."
