Big Tech censorship is driving polarization

Published June 6, 2022 12:00am ET



I’ve covered free speech backsliding both on college campuses and in broader politics, but perhaps more pernicious than either phenomenon is the coordinated stifling of conservative speech online.

This week, the Associated Press reported on nine exploitable vulnerabilities in electronic voting machines from leading vendor Dominion Voting Systems. One might recall Dominion as the company Donald Trump loyalists claimed influenced the election outcome in 2020. Indeed, MyPillow CEO and staunch Trump ally Mike Lindell was banned from Twitter in January 2021 for expressing as much.

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