Are you “Shadow Banned” from Facebook & Google?

Twitter, Facebook and YouTube are censoring what we see online by using algorithms – also called “shadow banning.”

A person might wonder why no one is engaging with his content. It’s because people aren’t seeing it.

Wikipedia defines shadow banning as: “Blocking a user’s content from being seen online, so the user does not realize that they have been banned. By making his contributions invisible to other people [even though he sees it], the user will leave the site.”

Social networks and other digital content providers are run primarily by left-wing ideologues with political agendas – and are politically controlling what information people can see (without their knowledge).

With 1.86 billion people on Facebook alone, this is serious business. The majority of adults now get their news using digital platforms. A 2016 Pew Research Center study found that 44 percent of Americans get their news on Facebook. This encompasses all kinds of news, including political information that can sway voters, shape public opinion and impact elections.

Social networks feign innocence by pretending they’re merely following guidelines and “curating” news by customizing what appears on our screens, based on our preferences.

It is censorship of conservative news, which is blocked from public view across the digital spectrum. And there are lawsuits to prove it.

• PragerU, a conservative organization that streams online videos, is suing YouTube and Google for blocking 50 of its videos. “Watch any one of our videos, and you’ll immediately realize that Google/YouTube censorship is entirely ideologically driven,” says Dennis Prager. “Our videos are presented by some of the finest minds in the Western world, including four Pulitzer Prize winners, former prime ministers, and professors from the most prestigious universities in America.” He adds that Google and YouTube “are engaging in an arbitrary and capricious use of their ‘restricted mode’ and ‘demonetization’ to restrict non-left political thought. Their censorship is profoundly damaging because Google and YouTube own and control the largest forum for public participation in video-based speech in … the world.”
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• Conservative members of Congress are being censored online. In 2017, Twitter barred a political advertisement created by Rep. Marsha Blackburn for referencing that she “fought Planned Parenthood and … stopped the sale of baby body parts” – which is something that Twitter found to be “inflammatory.”