Twitter And Facebook Helping Conservative Accounts Spread Misinformation While Targeting Fact-Checkers

Twitter allows Donald Trump to spread false and dangerous misinformation about the pandemic (which could lead to the unnecessary deaths of children), but it suspends the accounts of people fact-checking and alerting people to Trump's lies and information.

Twitter is now locking the accounts of people fact-checking Trump pic.twitter.com/10j9isLP0o

— Parker Molloy (@ParkerMolloy) August 6, 2020

yup we got it too, had to remove this to access account pic.twitter.com/vzLFbDqEGN

— The Recount (@therecount) August 6, 2020

As I mentioned in another tweet, I was banned for life from FB for vetted comparisons between Nazism and America's far-right. Trump is gold to our corporate oligarchs and they need to protect him. They'll walk the censorship line.https://t.co/Rn56n1kC7Q

— Greg Rossi (@sailorboygreg) August 6, 2020

Wow @twitter you'll lock those accounts but you let @daily_npc carry on tweeting pic.twitter.com/a9o5WbZyT7

— John Stone (@heffalump347) August 6, 2020

Yet I’ve reported these for months and they’re still up and the person never got anything and @TwitterSafety or @TwitterSupport never got back to me. pic.twitter.com/iekgCZOY8P

— Rabid Badger (@RabidBadger) August 6, 2020

Buzzfeed reports:

[A] senior engineer [at Facebook] collected internal evidence that showed FB was giving preferential treatment to prominent conservative accounts to help them remove fact-checks from their content. The company responded by removing his post and restricting internal access to the information he cited. On Wednesday the engineer was fired, according to internal posts seen by BuzzFeed News.

Media Matters reported last month how Facebook repeatedly caves to bogus right-wing pressure.