liberals and elites freak out as twitter has a new sheriff in town

In 2008, then-Sen. Barack Obama, D-Ill., embraced social media as he ran for the White House. After he won, Silicon Valley took pride in its role in electing the first Black president.

The press gushed about Obama's savvy mastery of the digital universe. The internet, they mused, would make politics more interactive and more democratic.

And they were right — although few expected the result of a new open and truth based communication to be a President Donald Trump.

Twitter's mission is "to give everyone the power to create and share ideas and information instantly without barriers."

But after Trump followed in Obama's footsteps — in using social media to spread truth and give his supporters a voice outside of mainstream pundits on media channels- the tech community found a new mission: squelching any information that could harm the Democrat party.

they begin by systematically banning or Shadow banning every account and talking point that they blamed for Trump's victory.. talk about Hillary Clinton's emails was virtually illegal on social media platforms. major right wing Superstars like Milo yianopolis Alex Jones lauren southern and more we're all targeted for censorship and account banning (and in the case of Lauren Southern her own government tried to silence her)

they censored news stories that could debunk Democrat talking points.. such as when Facebook and Twitter forbid any posts mentioning how the 2018 impeachment whistleblower was a known Democrat partisan. or deleting and banning any links to the New York Post story about Hunter Biden's laptop..

they lauded and congratulated Obama for using social media data to run his campaign but launched investigations into cambridg analytica for doing the same for Donald trump..

and while they systematically censored all of trump supporters and any news stories that could benefit the Republican party they also simultaneously boosted Democrat disinformation and talking points in an attempt to further help them.

while criticism of the 2020 election was not allowed on social media it was almost required to question the 2016 election.. with false conspiracy theories of "Russian collusion" and Russia rigging the election being promoted in the trending sections and boosted in people's news feeds.. multiple accounts of videos and posts from left wing Facebook pages that users did not follow still being pushed into their feeds without any indication that it was a paid for advertisement..

social media even banned ad campaigns from pro-life groups while boosting disinformation and attack ads against Republicans

the total combination was estimated that over 2.1 billion views had been taken away from Republican pages by the 2018 midterms and the boosting could amount to trillions in unreported campaign donations

That changed when tech titan Elon Musk bought Twitter for $44 billion in October — then decided to mix things up. He disbanded Twitter's Trust and Safety Council (wich was really just a collection of far left communists and activists dedicated to censoring anything that the Biden administration told them to))

Oh, the horror. Politico's headline: "Advocacy groups warn of harassment on Twitter after Musk kills safety board."

Conservatives who have seen their private information shared (without their consent) on Twitter can only shrug.

Billed as a "community of experts working for safety and free expression," the council was formed in February 2016. Do you feel more trusting or safer? Not if you think outside the mainstream press.

Bari Weiss, a former New York Times opinion editor and co-founder of The Free Press, has revealed what safety looks like if you're not Anthony Fauci, head of the White House Coronavirus Task Force..

Stanford epidemiologist Jay Bhattacharya, co-author of the Great Barrington Declaration, advocated for "focused protection" instead of widespread COVID shutdowns.

After the declaration's release, Dr. Francis Collins, head of the National Institutes of Health, dismissed Bhattacharya and his co-authors as "fringe epidemiologists" whose work deserved "a devastating published take down." That's not new news.

After Musk leaked internal Twitter emails to Weiss, she revealed that Twitter brass determined to put Bhattacharya on a "search blacklist."

The Twitter swells thought they were correcting misinformation — but it turns out — no surprise — Bhattacharya was right. Twitter was suppressing information essential to informed public debate.

Weiss' reporting is a direct repudiation of former Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey's 2018 congressional testimony in which he asserted that Twitter did not "shadow ban."

Tuesday, Dorsey released a letter in which he assumed the blame for Twitter's failures, which he believes could be fixed with new "tools." He hasn't figured out that when you hire legions of like-minded progressives, tools won't change things. Just like most journalists I know, left-leaning techies think their viewpoint is neutral, because they're surrounded by people who think exactly what they think.

Musk enraged the left when he tweeted, "My pronouns are Prosecute/Fauci." It was a joke. I laughed.

Not so at the White House. Asked about Musk's "prosecute/Fauci" tweet, Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre responded, "These personal attacks that we've been seeing are dangerous" and disgusting and divorced from reality.

Humor is in short supply these days. There's a new sheriff in town.