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To: Sdgla who wrote (986573)	12/10/2016 11:24:08 AM
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Are Social Media Giants Attacking Conservative Free Speech?… It Sure Looks That Way Dec 10th, 2016 9:59 am by Jim Hoft Guest post by Joe Hoft After the 2016 elections in November President Obama and the Democrat Party led the attack against what they called ... SNIP: Facebook’s creator and COO both were noted in emails released by WikiLeaks showing she worked for and supported the Clinton campaign prior to her election loss. Since the election, Facebook released 7 actions to stop ‘fake media’. Twitter is another medium attacking free speech. Recently Twitter prevented the #NeverRomney hashtag from trending. Twitter Censored a tweet promoting Sheriff Joe Arpaio as Head of Border Patrol labeling it “Hate Speech” but Twitter allowed the #AssassinateTrump hashtag. Journalist James O’Keefe’s account was shut down by Twitter. Breitbart journalist Milo Yiannopoulos’s account was shut down for good. Many more conservatives are now blocked from Twitter and yet printed in its prospectus Twitter claims that it enables “any voice to echo around the world unfiltered.” Google-owned YouTube has started censoring ‘fake news’ sites as well. The company that live streamed Trump events during the months leading up to the election, Right side broadcasting, confirmed they had their live stream disabled by YouTube a few days before the election. The CEO of Reddit, Steve Huffman a Hillary Clinton fan, confessed to modifying posts from Trump supporters. The posts were in response to other actions taken by the site to shut down an unflattering story involving Hillary Clinton. It’s clear that conservative voices are under attack from leading social websites in response to the 2016 election results.