Twitter’s arbitrary censorship is a bad business model

Published October 16, 2020 4:16pm ET



Twitter and Facebook’s recent decision to censor the New York Post’s story on Hunter Biden’s ties to Burisma may very well be a tipping point in the fight over Big Tech. Conservatives have a clear reason to be concerned that companies such as Twitter and Facebook, among others, are essentially engaging in election interference. It is no surprise that conservatives are leaving in droves to alternative platforms.

What Silicon Valley has failed to grasp in the past few years is that it is better to be neutral in the political space than to favor one side over the other. By favoring left-leaning individuals and causes, Big Tech has created their own problems.

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