by Kyle Perisic
A Democratic congresswoman said on Tuesday that conservatives and Republicans’ concerns over bias on the Facebook, Google, and Twitter platforms are unjustified. Here’s proof she’s wrong.
Democratic Rep. Zoe Lofgren of California said at a hearing addressing political discrimination against conservatives and Republicans on Facebook, Google, and Twitter, which dominant Internet traffic, is “motivated by a sense of persecution, on the part of Republicans and conservatives that somehow they’re being unfairly treated when they have a majority in House, the Senate, the White House.”
Despite the hearing specifically addressing discrimination against conservatives on the Facebook, Google, and Twitter platforms — not on their conservative news sites — Lofgren brought up “conservative news sites have three times more user engagement that liberals do.”
“There’s been no evidence whatsoever that I have seen and that the majority has been able to provide that there’s any bias whatsoever,” she added.
YouTube, a subsidiary of Google’s parent company Alphabet, admitted in March it “may misapply some of our policies resulting in mistaken removals,” which in this case involved a number of conservative channels being removed from the platform, The Daily Caller News Foundation reported.
Additionally, Google, utilizing Wikipedia, mislabeled a Republican candidate for Congress a “bigot,” and referred to the Republican Party as a Nazi ideology.
At one point, Twitter suspended a conservative comedian and political pundit, Steven Crowder, from the platform, The Daily Caller reported in mid-March.
After Facebook changed its algorithms to boost “trusted” news outlets while suppressing their competitors, a report conducted by The Outline showed that conservative and right-leaning news outlets were hit the hardest, while liberal and left-leaning outlets had remain nearly unhinged, TheDCNF reported in April.
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Kyle Perisic is a reporter at Daily Caller News Foundation. Follow Kyle on Twitter @KylePerisic.
