Big Tech Overlords Made a Massive Mistake
By: George Chambers
Tags: Election 2020, Politics, Government, Technology, Social Media

The New York Post story about Hunter Biden would have been dismissed as another vast right-wing conspiracy by the mainstream media

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Facebook and Twitter’s strategy of censoring the New York Post story about Biden family corruption backfired bigly. They forgot basic human psychology which says the more you tell someone not to look at or not to do something, it increases the probability people will do exactly what you don’t want.

Tech companies do the Left’s dirty work by fact-checking everything that could be questionable from conservatives but give the Left a free pass. You won’t find stories that were anonymously sourced about the Russia collusion investigation or anything else unfavorable to President Trump flagged by our big tech betters.

Big tech got power-hungry and decided to flex their muscles. They wanted to position themselves as our defenders against fake news and misinformation. The story wasn’t fact-checked yet, but somehow our betters at those companies deemed it not fit for our consumption.

Their logic was by blocking the story about Hunter Biden’s shady and corrupt business dealings, it would remove credibility from the story because they said so. They made the incorrect assumption the American people are dumb enough to believe everything they say.

They wanted to position themselves as our defenders against fake news and misinformation.

They thought if the story got suppressed, no one would see it. That’s a very high level of hubris since people have plenty of ways of finding information outside of their platforms, such as going to the source and deciding for themselves if it’s credible or not.

Social media is in fact social. When a big story happens, word spreads no matter how hard techies at these companies try to stop it. Zuckerberg and Dorsey made the miscalculation the story would go away if they shut it down on their platforms.

Their miscalculation was by censoring the story, it would go away. It’s not a crazy plan. They thought it would end up another major story ignored by the mainstream media because it didn’t fit their pro-Biden narrative. The media are notorious for selecting stories to cover that advance their left-wing agenda.

They made the incorrect assumption the American people are dumb enough to believe everything they say.

Instead, they incurred more wrath than they could imagine. Dorsey and Zuckerberg thought they could censor a bombshell story, and no one would say a word. They were so arrogant they didn’t think they would face any repercussions.

Big tech’s actions ended up creating more trouble for them and the Biden campaign. Conservative media won’t let this story go and there’s a case these companies need to be broken up. Mainstream media could have drummed up a story from their files of Trump “controversies” to make this go away.

This was a poor strategy on the part of big tech’s left-wing agenda. They should have let the story play out and the mainstream media would have run interference for the Biden campaign. It created an unnecessary controversy and great material for President Trump to capitalize on.