For one thing, it further damages the reputation of Big Tech. For another, it renders the industry more susceptible to a new regulatory regime already being championed by some in Congress. Mostly, however, it just makes the story they’re trying to suppress a far bigger deal.<ref>https://news.yahoo.com/twitter-facebook-shameful-repression-york-010644456.html</ref>}}
By “fact checking” one candidate and not another, Big Tech gave an enormous in-kind campaign contribution of immeasurable monetary value to the [[2020 Biden campaign|Biden campaign]]. The ''New York Post'', [[Gateway Pundit]]'', and Big League Politics all were placed on Twitter's suspension hit lit the final week before election day.<ref>https://bigleaguepolitics.com/big-league-politics-gateway-pundit-new-york-post-among-news-outlets-placed-on-twitter-suspension-weeks-before-election/</ref> ===Polling Company survey===The Polling Company surveyed 1,750 Biden voters in seven [[swing states]] ([[Arizona]], [[Georgia]], [[Michigan]], [[Nevada]], [[North Carolina]], [[Pennsylvania]] and [[Wisconsin]]), six of which (all but North Carolina) were called for Biden.<ref>https://cdn.mrc.org/TPC-MRC+Biden+Voter+Messaging+Survey+Analysis+Nov+2020_final.pdf</ref> Voters’ knowledge of eight news stories were tested. A huge majority (82%) of Biden voters were unaware of at least one of these key items, with five percent saying they were unaware of all eight of the issues we tested. This lack of information proved crucial: One of every six Biden voters surveyed (17%) said they would have abandoned the Democratic candidate had they known the facts about one or more of these news stories. A shift of this magnitude would have changed the outcome in all six of the swing states won by Joe Biden, and Donald Trump would have comfortably won a second term as president.<ref>https://www.newsbusters.org/blogs/nb/rich-noyes/2020/11/24/special-report-stealing-presidency-2020</ref> *'''Burying Biden’s Bad News:''' The media’s censorship of [[Biden family corruption|Biden’s scandals]] had the strongest impact on this year’s election. According to our survey, more than one-third of Biden voters (35.4%) were unaware of the serious allegations brought against the Democratic nominee by [[Tara Reade]], a former staffer who said Biden [[sexual assault|sexually assaulted]] her in the 1990s. If they had known about the allegations, 8.9% said they would have changed their vote — either switching to Trump or a 3rd party candidate, not voting for any presidential candidate, or not voting at all. By itself, this would have flipped all six of the swing states won by Biden (Arizona, Georgia, Michigan, Nevada, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin), giving the President a win with 311 [[electoral college]] votes. :Even more Biden voters (45.1%) said they were unaware of the financial scandal enveloping Biden and his son, [[Hunter Biden]] (a story infamously censored by Twitter and Facebook, as well as ignored by the [[liberal media]]). According to the poll, full awareness of the Hunter Biden scandal would have led 9.4% of Biden voters to abandon the Democratic candidate, flipping all six of the swing states he won to Trump, giving the President 311 electoral votes. :The ticket’s [[left-wing]] ideology was another issue barely mentioned by the national press. A GovTrack analysis found Biden’s running mate, California Senator [[Kamala Harris]], had the most left-wing record of any Senator in 2019 (even more than self-described [[socialist]] [[Bernie Sanders]]. The poll found that 25.3% of Biden voters said they didn’t know about Senator Harris’s left-wing ideology. If voters had the complete story, it would have led 4.1% of Biden voters to change their vote, flipping Arizona, Georgia, Nevada, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin to Trump. The result would have been a Trump victory, with 295 electoral college votes. *'''Hiding Trump’s Successes:''' The liberal media also prevented many Biden voters from learning about record-breaking positive [[economic]] news in the months leading up to the election. The five pre-election jobs reports from June 5, 2020 to October 2 showed a record 11,161,000 jobs were created in the extraordinary snapback from the [[CCP pandemic|pandemic]] recession. Yet a large number of Biden voters (39.4%) said they didn’t know about this achievement. If they had, 5.4% said they would have changed their vote; this would have swung Arizona, Georgia, Nevada, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin to Trump, who would have won with 295 electoral votes. :On October 29, 2020 the government reported a huge jump in economic growth — 33.1% on an annual basis, double the previous record. Yet nearly half of Biden voters (49.0%) said they had no idea about this record-breaking achievement. Armed with that information, 5.6% said they would have changed their vote, swinging Arizona, Georgia, Nevada, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin and a total of 295 electoral votes to Trump. :The same effect was seen when it came to foreign policy. The President and his team made history by brokering peace agreements with [[Israel]] and several of her [[Arab]] neighbors — one reason Trump received three nominations for the [[Nobel Peace Prize]]. Yet 43.5% of Biden voters had no idea about these historic agreements. The information would have led five percent of overall Biden voters to change their vote, putting Trump in front in Arizona, Georgia, Nevada, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin, for a total of 295 electoral votes. :Energy independence was another Trump success. The President took action to start long-stalled pipeline projects and expand drilling offshore and in the Arctic, and it paid off with America becoming a net exporter of oil for the first time in September 2019. More than half (50.5%) of Biden voters said they did not know about this important accomplishment, either. If the information was known by all, 5.8% of Biden’s voters say they would have changed how they voted. This would have changed the outcome in Arizona, Georgia, Nevada, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin, putting Trump in front with 295 electoral college votes. :One important issue that did get a lot of coverage in 2020: the [[coronavirus]] pandemic. But what made the news every night was criticism of the President and his administration. Lost in the blistering barrage of bad news were successes such as Operation Warp Speed, which even before the election was well on track to deliver 300,000,000 doses of a safe vaccine as soon as next year. :The poll found 36.1% of Biden voters said they did not know about the administration’s key role in promoting [[vaccine]] research through Operation Warp Speed. If they had, 5.3% told us they would have abandoned Biden, flipping Arizona, Georgia, Nevada, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin, giving the President 295 electoral votes. *'''Summary:''' Looking at all eight of these issues together, the poll found that a total of 17% of Biden’s voters said they would have changed their vote if they had been aware of one or more of these important stories. This would have moved every one of the swing states into Trump’s column, some by a huge margin. The President would have trounced Biden in the electoral college, 311 to 227. :In Pennsylvania, 15% of Biden voters said they would have defected. Using the reported vote totals as of noon on November 19, 2020 this would have reduced his total by 518,204 votes, flipping the state to Trump. In Michigan, the percentage who would have left Biden was 14%, deducting 392,966 from his tally and flipping that state, too. :In Georgia, 15% of Biden’s voters say they would have defected based on full information, taking 370,838 votes out of his column, and putting Trump comfortably ahead. In Arizona, 21% say they would have changed their vote, deducting 351,150 from Biden’s column and putting Trump in front there, too. :In Wisconsin, Biden would have lost 13% of his voters, taking away 211,987 from his column. In Nevada, the percentage of those who would have left Biden was 18%, or 126,627 voters. Such a shift would have put both of those states in Trump’s column, too. :In the final state polled, North Carolina, 21% of Biden’s voters say they would have changed their minds, deducting 563,703 votes from his total and significantly bolstering Trump’s margin of victory in that state.
===Coronavirusa and Communist Chinese misinformation===
*Freiburger, Calvin (May 3, 2019). [https://www.lifesitenews.com/news/facebook-allows-left-wing-page-to-fantasize-about-trump-assassination-funeral Facebook allows left-wing page to fantasize about Pres. Trump assassination, funeral]. ''LifeSiteNews''. Retrieved May 4, 2019.</ref> Additionally, Apple News banned [[LifeSiteNews]] from its platform for "intolerance."<ref>[https://www.lifesitenews.com/news/breaking-apple-news-bans-lifesite-without-warning-shows-intolerance BREAKING: Apple News bans LifeSite without warning: says it ‘shows intolerance’]. ''LifeSiteNews''. July 31, 2019. Retrieved July 31, 2019.</ref> The issue of Big Tech censorship hit a fever pitch in 2019 when [[Facebook]] and [[Instagram]] banned prominent alt-lite figures [[Alex Jones]], [[Laura Loomer]], and [[Milo Yiannopoulos]] without reason.
In June 2020, [[Gavin McInnes]] was banned from YouTube, and Twitter banned Katie Hopkins and a popular pro-[[Trump]] [[meme]] creator known as Carpe Donktum.<ref>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-nv-VeHvj_k</ref> YouTube also banned [[Stefan Molyneux]].,<ref>https://reclaimthenet.org/youtube-bans-stefan-molyneux/</ref> as did Twitter in July.<ref>https://reclaimthenet.org/stefan-molyneux-suspended-twitter/</ref> In July 2020, anti-establishment Republicans confronted Big Tech CEOs in the halls of Congress for censorship of conservatives and of right-wing or politically incorrect voices.<ref>https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2020/jul/30/conservative-groups-leveraging-big-tech-hearing-po/</ref><ref>https://patriotpost.us/opinion/72537-big-tech-on-deck-in-congress-2020-07-31</ref><ref>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G08kxa-IAss</ref><ref>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c23vrE1bQlA</ref><ref>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JoVZ4qKJJIk</ref>
===Hate speech===
By mid October ''[[Forbes]]'' reported that "Amazon, Facebook, Apple and Google all began scooping up New York City commercial real estate after prices have plummeted due to the fallout from the Covid-19 pandemic."<ref>https://www.forbes.com/sites/jackkelly/2020/10/16/amazon-apple-google-and-facebook-are-all-scooping-up-office-space-in-new-york-despite-predictions-of-the-citys-demise/#b23fb282c0f7</ref>
===Big Tech and Fox News===
The [[Fox News Channel]] seems to have colluded with Big Tech.
In January 2019, Fox News heaped praise on [[Microsoft]]'s [[NewsGuard]], a browser extension which disproportionately targets conservative and anti-establishment sources with poor ratings and then libels those sources as "fake news." Fox News, on the other hand, is considered a legitimate source of news.<ref>https://www.breitbart.com/the-media/2019/01/28/fox-news-promotes-microsofts-newsguard-blacklist-good-idea/</ref> [[BuzzFeed News]] is also considered reputable, while even stories from [[The Daily Wire]] are frequently downgraded by NewsGuard.<ref>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VcmTeiYvqu4</ref> Fox News permanently banned The Daily Wire's Michael Knowles in September of that year.[http://www.conservativehq.com/article/31075-michael-knowles-and-crumbling-conservatism-fox-news]
In the same month that the network profusely defended NewsGuard, their website asserted that a [[YouTube]] algorithm change very clearly designed to stifle independent content creators and to censor the [[Alternative Influence Network]], as reported by [[Breitbart News]] at the time,<ref>https://www.breitbart.com/tech/2019/01/28/youtube-doubles-down-will-censor-recommended-videos-to-stop-misinformation/</ref> was simply intended to direct audiences away from "conspiracy theories" and "misinformation."<ref>https://www.foxnews.com/tech/youtube-tweaks-algorithms-to-stop-recommending-conspiracy-videos</ref> According to [[Bloomberg News|Bloomberg Businessweek]], by July 2020, Fox News' YouTube channel gained tens of millions of views while even the channels of massive leftist corporate networks [[CNN]] and [[MSNBC]] declined in views.<ref>https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-07-10/fox-news-youtube-channel-got-a-big-boost-from-algorithm-change</ref> In June 2020, [[Gavin McInnes]] and [[Stefan Molyneux]] were permanently banned from YouTube, which Fox News refrained from covering.
==Big Tech companies==
===Twitter===
[[File:Dorsey.jpeg|right|thumb|250px|Jack Dorsey.]]
{{See also|Twitter}}
In May 2020, Twitter and its CEO Jack Dorsey came under heavy criticism for the company's recent decision to begin inserting "fact-checking" links into the tweets made by President Trump, with the company claiming those tweets to be "misleading" despite the exposure by [[Project Veritas]] of Democrat-led [[voter fraud]] proving otherwise,<ref>[https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2016/10/18/commit-voter-fraud-massive-scale-part-ii-project-veritas-investigation-clinton-network/ "How to Commit Voter Fraud on a Massive Scale": Part II of Project Veritas Investigation into Clinton Network] at Breitbart News Network</ref><ref>[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hDc8PVCvfKs Rigging the Election - Video II: Mass Voter Fraud] at Project Veritas Action YouTube channel</ref> after Trump tweeted about recent concerns over the intent by the Democrat Party to commit voter fraud at the federal, state and local levels through the use of mail-in ballots during the [[2020 Presidential election]].<ref>[https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/leave-our-employees-out-of-this-twitter-ceo-jack-dorsey-responds-to-trump-broadside 'Leave our employees out of this': Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey responds to Trump broadside] at the Washington Examiner</ref> The "fact-checking" links in question lead to an "information" page containing links from liberal media outlets such as [[CNN]], [[MSNBC]], the ''[[New York Times]]'' and the ''[[Washington Post]]'', all of which indulge in publishing factually-devoid and misleading [[fake news]] hit pieces and opinion pieces masquerading as "news" regarding the mail-in vote scandal<ref>[https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2020/05/twitter-falsely-undermined-truth-thereby-misleading-american-public-senior-legal-adviser-trump-campaign-responds-twitters-blatantly-partisan-attack-president/ "Twitter Falsely Undermined the Truth... Thereby Misleading the American Public" – Senior Legal Adviser to @TeamTrump Responds to Twitter’s "Blatantly Partisan" Attack on President] at the Gateway Pundit</ref> to fit their anti-Trump narratives.<ref>[https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/twitter-slaps-fact-checking-alert-to-trump-tweets Twitter slaps fact-checking alert on Trump tweets] at the Washington Examiner</ref> This decision also had the inadvertent outcome of embarrassing Twitter employee Yoel Roth, who was outed as having falsely accused Trump officials, including Presidential counselor [[Kellyanne Conway]], of being "Nazis" in past tweets he posted.<ref>[https://www.wnd.com/2020/05/twitters-chief-fact-checker-called-trump-officials-nazis/ Twitter's chief "fact-checker" called Trump officials "Nazis"] at WorldNetDaily</ref> Trump, who accused Twitter of openly trying to interfere with free elections and illegally impeding free speech, responded to Twitter's tampering with his tweets by announcing that he may place Twitter and similar social media companies under heavy regulation or shut them down altogether to punish them for their extreme liberal bias and illegal censorship (in violation of the [[First Amendment]]) of conservative speech and thought.<ref>[https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/close-them-down-trump-threatens-to-regulate-or-shutter-social-media-platforms-after-twitter-fact-check 'Close them down': Trump threatens to regulate or shutter social media platforms after Twitter fact-check] at the Washington Examiner</ref> Republican Florida senator [[Marco Rubio]] also weighed in on the controversy, saying that Twitter could lose its liability protections for choosing to act as a publisher by exercising editorial control through its tampering with Trump's tweets.<ref>[https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/rubio-warns-twitter-after-it-puts-fact-check-label-on-trump-tweet Rubio warns Twitter after it puts fact-check label on Trump tweet] at the Washington Examiner</ref><ref>[https://www.wnd.com/2020/05/u-s-senator-warns-twitter-lose-shield-liability/ U.S. senator warns Twitter could lose shield from liability] at WorldNetDaily</ref>