Just a week after both Meta & Google promised Senators that they would never block a potentially embarrassing story related to a candidate for national office, both companies did just that. Apparently the promise only applied to embarrassing info on GOP candidates. www.techdirt.com/2024/09/30/b...
It probably will not shock you to find out that big tech’s promises to never again suppress embarrassing leaked content about a political figure came with a catch. Apparently, it only applies when …
Well, also that the embarrassing GOP posts will get them far more death threats, which indicates the censorship efforts are working...
It was personulllll informashunnnnn Fucking shitbags
This is my shocked face.
They meant Hunter Biden
The Senators must be furious
They like the party that promises endless tax cuts...
How many Meta, Google, and Xitter engineers' salaries will be reported as in-kind contributions? They're basically acting as those shady internet-scrubbing "reputation management" consultants. j/k, it's zero, unfortunately.
That darn liburl big tech
So when does it become a lying to congress thing? Or does this fall under "its our platform we can do what we want