Trump Calls Out Twitter for Hypocrisy on Censoring Political Parody
After years of Twitter flagging or eradicating parody movies from conservatives, President Donald Trump known as out the platform for permitting a photoshopped picture of Senate Majority Chief Mitch McConnell (R-KY) to stay on the platform.
Trump blasted Twitter for hypocritically permitting a photoshopped picture of McConnell in a Russian military uniform as “Moscow Mitch” on September 8. Trump requested: “Why does Twitter depart phony footage like this up, however take down Republican/Conservative footage and statements which can be true?” Trump then demanded that conservatives take motion: “Mitch should battle again and repeal Part 230, instantly.” He known as for senators to “Cease biased Large Tech earlier than they cease you!”
Sen. Josh Hawley (R-MO) rapidly responded by retweeting the post and declaring: “The Senate ought to vote NOW on my invoice to allow people unfairly censored by #BigTech to sue!” Sen. Marsha Blackburn (R-TN) additionally responded to the Trump tweet by proclaiming that “Conservative voices have been censored by Silicon Valley for much too lengthy.”
Twitter certainly has an notorious historical past of double requirements relating to political parodies.
Professional-Trump meme creator Carpe Donktum’s video parodying CNN protection was labelled by Twitter as “manipulated media” in June.
The meme video depicted a pretend CNN headline that acknowledged, “TERRIFIED TODLER [sic] RUNS FROM RACIST BABY.” The footage featured an African-American toddler being chased by a white toddler with seemingly ominous music enjoying within the background. The section was adopted by a clip of “WHAT ACTUALLY HAPPENED,” which featured the identical two youngsters “working towards one another on a sidewalk earlier than embracing as Harry Connick Jr.’s version of the Carpenters’ ‘Near You’ performs,” NBC News summarized.
Whereas the video was clearly meant as a hyperbolic parody of liberal media protection, Large Tech and liberal journalists took it with utter seriousness. The parody video’s editor, Carpe Donktum, has since been suspended from Twitter.
Conservatives are beneath assault. Contact the FCC at 1-888-225-5322 and/or by way of the MRC’s FCC contact form to present your tackle the petition filed by the Division of Commerce concerning Part 230 of the Communications Decency Act of 1996. Demand that Large Tech be held to account to reflect the First Modification whereas offering transparency, readability on “hate speech” and equal footing for conservatives.