Juno News - Canadian media go silent on Twitter Files

This episode is brought to you by Zero Dark Sparta, a podcast about the dark side of the internet, and the people who run it. This episode focuses on a conspiracy theory that has been circulating on the internet for years: that the government has been censoring information on social media sites like Twitter and other major news outlets.

00:00:00.000 So all of this now brings us to what we don't know. What we don't know is how many other times

00:00:05.760 Twitter has used this tactic of censoring content, censoring information, because someone has told

00:00:11.780 them to do it. Whether it be a political candidate, whether it be a world leader, whether it be a

00:00:15.440 company has told them to suppress information. Remember that at the beginning of COVID, you

00:00:19.500 would be censored on Twitter. You'd be locked out of your account on Twitter if you dared to talk

00:00:24.080 about the lab leak theory for COVID-19. If you dared to allege that perhaps COVID came from a

00:00:28.820 Wuhan lab. The same thing would happen on Facebook. So what else have they been up to? What else has

00:00:33.940 Twitter been up to? That's the big question that any real journalist would start asking. But so far,

00:00:41.020 nothing. Nothing at all. Let's take a look actually at what Canadian media are reporting on, if at all.

00:00:46.960 Let's take a look at what Global News is reporting.

00:00:51.020 Hmm, seems quiet over there. What about CTV News?

00:00:53.860 Perhaps the state propaganda outlet, the CBC. Oh wait a second, what's this story here? Here we go.

00:01:02.160 Trump condemned after calling for partial termination of constitution over his election

00:01:06.280 line. Seems like not what we're looking for. However, the CBC, along with the Globe and Mail,

00:01:12.800 decided to pick up this story from the Associated Press. No Canadian journalist was willing to write

00:01:17.220 this story, obviously. So they picked up a story from an American wire news service, the Associated Press.

00:01:22.440 You're probably thinking to yourself, well, this is another Trump attack article. Why is he bringing

00:01:26.560 this up to us right now? Well, as a matter of fact, the Associated Press did mention the Twitter

00:01:32.080 files. Only 10 paragraphs buried into this story and completely botched. Take a look at this.

00:01:39.760 Trump's comments came after Twitter's new owner, Elon Musk, said he would reveal how Twitter engaged in

00:01:45.020 free speech suppression. See how they use scare quotes for that? Free speech suppression. Not like,

00:01:49.460 of course, it was actual free speech suppression, right? That wasn't free speech suppression.

00:01:53.440 Quote, free speech suppression leading up to the 2020 election. But files released Friday,

00:01:58.580 which focused on the tech company's confused response to a story about Biden's son, Hunter,

00:02:03.400 do not show Democrats trying to limit the story. Uh, excuse me, Associated Press, that's not the story.

00:02:09.520 Have you been paying attention? The story is not Democrats trying to suppress the story.

00:02:13.880 The story is Twitter suppressing the story. Obviously that's what we're talking about. Obviously this is

00:02:18.620 free speech suppression by a social media company, not the Democrats. Obviously the Democrats wouldn't

00:02:24.340 want the story. The Republicans wouldn't want the story if it was about Trump.

Juno News - December 06, 2022

Canadian media go silent on Twitter Files

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