The big tech giants crackdown on conservatives is no coincidence. Left-wing activist and Media Matters founder David Brock outlined the strategy in a secret Strategic Plan for Action" created for a donor retreat in January 2017.
I reported on the memos first effects last August. In it Brock explains how Media Matters and three related left-wing groups intend to take down some of the most well-known leaders on the right and squelch conservative speech and policies. Brock receives funding from left-wing billionaire George Soros.
It gets worse.
Stop Conservatives!
What no one realized until recently is that the plan specifically explains how it intends to stop conservatives using the big tech giants like Facebook. It refers to sites on the right as fake news" that must be stopped.
Social media campaigns on the right will be punished and halted."
In the memo Brock says Internet and social media platforms like Google and Facebook will no longer uncritically and without consequence host and enrich fake news sites and propaganda." Social media campaigns on the right will be punished and halted." The earlier we can identify a fake news story the more effectively we can quash it."
Brock bemoans that Trump and the right effectively used online channels to disseminate information and misinformation and influence the media even getting fake stories onto cable TV." He says the right colonized Facebook which has established a virtual monopoly on information distribution." Brock brags that Media Matters has access to raw data from Facebook Twitter and other social media sites" so it can systemically monitor and analyze this unfiltered data."
The Targeted Sites
Media Matters gave Facebook and Google lists of right wing sites that it deems fake news. Google complied in 2016 taking action against some of them. The sites includeBreitbart the Drudge Report The Gateway Pundit Infowars Zero Hedge and Conservative Treehouse. Facebook changed its algorithm for showing news. This hurt traffic to many sites on the right. As a result the popular site Right Wing News shut down in January. It was unable to survive with the loss of traffic. Western Journal found that leftwing sites averaged a 2 percent increase in traffic after the algorithm change. Rightwing sites saw a 14 percent decrease.
The censoring is taking place incrementally.
The censoring is taking place incrementally. No site completely bans the right. But troublingly big tech appears to be colluding on the censorship. Facebook YouTube and Apple all banned Infowars and Jones within hours of each other. This does not seem to be a coincidence.
Other forms of censorship include shadowbanning by Twitter. This refers to hiding someones content from everyone except the person who posted it. Facebook and YouTube are demonetizing sites on the right stopping them from making money through ads.
PragerU has had its videos censored by YouTube and Facebook. YouTube restricted 80 of its videos from youth under 18. Facebook deleted two of its videos as hate speech." One of the videos called for men to be masculine again.