Thread by @LibertarianBlue

Journalists really are to blame for this.

The YouTube ad boycott, the Facebook ad boycott - that was all them.

The transformation of tech companies into weapons of the ruling elite would not have happened without constant pressure from the media.

https://twitter.com/mtracey/status/1347965491546091528

There were always people inside the tech giants who wanted censorship. But numbers swelled because of agitation from the media, and media-inspired ad boycotts immeasurably strengthened their hand. More than Democrats, more than the tech companies themselves, the media did this.

Panics over "fake news" and "misinformation" didn't start inside the tech companies. They started in the media, were picked up by the most radical employees inside the companies, who went on to craft the policies that would placate the media -- until the next panic.

The "Fact checking" apparatus exposes the centrality of the media in all this.

The media demanded Facebook create a fact-checking system, and then installed themselves as the officially approved fact-checkers.

Now they suppress their competition.

https://twitter.com/RealCandaceO/status/1347984418338701314

These two stories aren't just about YouTube's political search blacklists - bad on their own.

They're also about how YouTube activated them within HOURS of journalists complaining about content on a search result.

(1) breitbart.com/tech/2019/07/3…

(2) breitbart.com/tech/2019/01/1…