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Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey: I 'fully admit' our bias is 'more left-leaning'
The Hill ^ | 08/18/18 | John Bowden

Posted on 08/18/2018 4:56:24 PM PDT by yesthatjallen

Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey said on Saturday that he "fully admit[s]" Twitter employees share a largely left-leaning bias after facing accusations that conservatives are discriminated against on the social media platform.

In an interview that aired Saturday on CNN, Dorsey said his company has a responsibility to be open about its political viewpoints, but to operate without bias when applying content policies to users.

"We need to constantly show that we are not adding our own bias, which I fully admit is...is more left-leaning," Dorsey says.

"But the real question behind the question is, are we doing something according to political ideology or viewpoints? And we are not. Period," he added.

Dorsey went on to insist that his company only polices behavior on the platform, not content.

Dorsey's remarks follow criticism from the right over supposed "shadow-banning" of conservatives users. The platform and Dorsey have also faced questions over the decision not to remove far-right conspiracy theorist Alex Jones from the platform, despite other social media platforms choosing to do so.

The Twitter CEO said in an interview with The Hill this week that Jones was banned after he received complaints that Jones's content was inciting violence.

“We were getting a number of reports around the tweet and the Periscope that the content was inciting violence, which is against our terms of service, and we took action,” Dorsey said.

The InfoWars host received a week-long ban from the platform, but has been removed from other services including YouTube, Spotify, and Apple Music.

Dorsey is expected to testify next month before the Senate Intelligence Committee on the issue of Russian election interference, and faces a possible subpoena from the House Energy and Commerce Committee over allegations of discrimination against conservatives on the platform.


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KEYWORDS: bias; censorship; dorsey; freespeech; internet; jackdorsey; liberalmedia; newmedia; socialmedia; twitter; twittercensorship
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To: yesthatjallen

We were getting a number of reports


but no actual acts of violence.

I think Dorsey is hearing from shareholders and fighting for his job.

Which gives me an idea. Stop using all of these services and I mean hard. Tell everybody repeatedly to do this(like I do with cutting cable tv). Put together a mutual fund that invests in just these MFing censors then hold sway over their policies. Keep it front and center.


21 posted on 08/18/2018 5:58:56 PM PDT by joshua c (To disrupt the system, we must disrupt our lives. Do nothing, they win and we lose.)
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To: yesthatjallen

So we’ve got Fox News,talk radio and the NY Post...the Maoists own *everything* else!


22 posted on 08/18/2018 5:59:50 PM PDT by Gay State Conservative (I've Never Owned Slaves...You've Never Picked Cotton.End Of "Discussion".)
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To: yesthatjallen
Re: 19

LOL!
Yes, I note the heavy sarcasm. I am all for free markets, but clearly that ship has sailed regarding Facebook and Google (with their YouTube subsidiary), that are just too entrenched with their large user base. I am no fan of Government interference - but Facebook, Google, Twitter are crying out for Anti-Monopoly litigation.

23 posted on 08/18/2018 6:00:29 PM PDT by El Cid (Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ, and thou shalt be saved, and thy house...)
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To: El Cid

I would like to hear one LEFTY who has been banned.


24 posted on 08/18/2018 6:01:37 PM PDT by joshua c (To disrupt the system, we must disrupt our lives. Do nothing, they win and we lose.)
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To: yesthatjallen
But the real question behind the question is...

Look at the left hand not at the right.
Everything after that is illusion/misdirection...IMO

25 posted on 08/18/2018 6:02:36 PM PDT by philman_36 (Pride breakfasted with plenty, dined with poverty and supped with infamy. Benjamin Franklin)
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To: Gay State Conservative
I like OANN!
FoxNews actually trends a bit left. Unlike the other big Networks, they do have some conservatives (as opposed to 100% Leftists), but overall Fox leans to the Left.
OANN is pretty straight, with a bit of a lean to the Right (which is fine by me).
26 posted on 08/18/2018 6:02:57 PM PDT by El Cid (Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ, and thou shalt be saved, and thy house...)
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To: yesthatjallen

If liar Dorsey is actually interesting in policing hateful content, why doesn’t he start with “Minister” Farakkan’s twitter feed which has the following pinned tweet:

“Thoroughly and completely unmasking the Satanic Jew and the Synagogue of Satan.

Full Video: https://youtu.be/OTGBgIeaStc

https://twitter.com/LouisFarrakhan


27 posted on 08/18/2018 6:08:35 PM PDT by Reverend Wright (I am a Putin bot. And I approve this message.)
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To: yesthatjallen

Twitter has a liberal bias? Who knew?


28 posted on 08/18/2018 6:18:21 PM PDT by dowcaet
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To: El Cid

the RINOS SOP is to cower under their desks. They do not like sticking their necks out because they only care about feathering their nests.


29 posted on 08/18/2018 6:25:35 PM PDT by joshua c (To disrupt the system, we must disrupt our lives. Do nothing, they win and we lose.)
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Re: 29

I agree - the RINOs are just Democrats who run as Republicans in Conservative districts.

30 posted on 08/18/2018 6:29:13 PM PDT by El Cid (Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ, and thou shalt be saved, and thy house...)
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To: marktwain

Well, they all lie that they are objective.

Kind of like antifa saying they are peaceful while they are beating someone with a stick.


31 posted on 08/18/2018 6:30:46 PM PDT by joshua c (To disrupt the system, we must disrupt our lives. Do nothing, they win and we lose.)
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To: CincyRichieRich

Problem for us is conservatives are more individualists. We don’t get our feelers hurt and run out and mass spam complaints aimed at getting opposing content removed.

Hate to say it but sometimes I wish we would.


32 posted on 08/18/2018 6:34:02 PM PDT by LeoTDB69
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To: Drew68
How about just banning the stuff that's illegal

Now that is where most of the problems lie. In this upside down America where right is wrong and left is right, these assholes could not even come close to defining "lawful" in their twisted minds.

33 posted on 08/18/2018 6:45:09 PM PDT by eartick (Stupidity is expecting the government that broke itself to go out and fix itself. Texan for TEXIT!)
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To: Spiridon
Donald Trump at least can use Twitter freely I assume

This is about that very subject.

Tweeted On Twitter

34 posted on 08/18/2018 6:48:46 PM PDT by Uncle Sham
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To: Jim Robinson

I like the “left-leaning”. Yeah, “leaning”.

The liberals never stop lying. They never stop lying.


35 posted on 08/18/2018 6:54:33 PM PDT by SaveFerris (Luke 17:28 ... as it was in the days of Lot; they did eat, they drank, they bought, they sold ......)
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To: marktwain

Remember, getting out of denial is one of the first stages of recovery.


36 posted on 08/18/2018 7:34:50 PM PDT by Sam_Damon
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To: yesthatjallen

REVOKE TWITTER PATENTS

Pull all Twitter software Patents.

Twitter is the Enemy of the People
and cannot own Patents.


37 posted on 08/18/2018 7:57:51 PM PDT by TheNext (l)
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To: Secret Agent Man
Cant wait until they go bankrupt.

Should be soon if they keep doing what they're doing. They just shut down my account. Didn't like that I countered a liberal fascist who thought attacking conservatives was OK, with the point that I thought we should shoot illegals at the border. Apparently, they don't like protecting ones' country. Bunch of SOBs.

I think I'll play the multiple name game with them.

38 posted on 08/18/2018 8:45:43 PM PDT by meyer (WWG1WGA, MAGA!)
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To: yesthatjallen

twitter will go the way of myspace one day. let them get rid of all non leftwing snowflakes and it can remain one big circle jerk. they have no real power.
as far as youtube, well they’re dumb as hell because they have a paid for subsription streaming service call youtube red.
NOBODY CONSERVATIVE SHOULD EVEN THINK ABOUT BUYING INTO THIS. SAME WITH SPOTIFY.

Screw them.


39 posted on 08/18/2018 9:32:21 PM PDT by snarkytart
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To: BookmanTheJanitor

I hope that one of the congressional committees asks him to “prove” that anything Alex Jones has said had (in a documented manner), incited violence.

I don’t follow Jones and won’t. Think he’s more wacko than truth-seeker but after looking at some of the Twits on Twitter that leftists have written, I’m sure that hundreds of them would be banned from it under Dorsey’s own rules if he was honest enough to follow them.

But then he’s “limousine Marxist” so honesty is not his strong point.

Free Speech or even paid for speak is under attack by the Marxist/liberal/progressive/socialist/Democrat Left (all the same when you look at what they say and do) and like Pastor Niemoller said many decades ago, when they came for me, there was nobody left to help me.

The new fascism of the Left is “RED FASCISM”, an amalgamation of Hitler’s “Big Lie” and Lenin/Stalin’s “Iron Fist”.

Never call them liberal again. Play the “Alinsky Game”. Target them, study them, label them, ridicule them, never let them have a minute’s peace.

Two can play this game and it’s about time that we got into the ball game with oversized verbal bats and in-depth knowledge, seasoned by a stinging, cutting, and really penetrating sense of humor.

Just call us “The Good Humor People of Freedom” and stick it to the bastards.


40 posted on 08/18/2018 9:32:53 PM PDT by MadMax, the Grinning Reaper
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