US Rep. Matt Gaetz to File Complaint with FEC Against Twitter for Shadow Ban. Twitter Stock Drops by Whopping 20% as It Loses Its Audience

Twitter’s stock dropped by 20% last week after user numbers declined, following in the footsteps of Facebook’s recent plummet.  Republicans and conservatives are being ‘shadow banned’ by Twitter, using multiple forms of subtle censorship and algorithms to cast their content into obscurity.  US Representative Matt Gaetz plans to file a complaint with the FEC against Twitter for a shadow ban against him, claiming that the social media company cannot use a federal law to claim it is neutral in order to dodge lawsuits, while at the same time, engaging in political censorship.

By JW Williams

US Representative Matt Gaetz (R-FL) said that he will file a complaint with the Federal Elections Commission (FEC) against Twitter claiming that the social media company placed a ‘shadow ban’ in his account, limiting his visibility in Twitter’s search tool.  He said that Twitter claimed he the limit on is account was in response to his behavior.
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Gaetz argued that Twitter may have illegally donated to the campaigns of his opponents on the left by prejudicing against his content and limiting his social media visibility.   He compared it to a billboard company refusing to provide space for one party, which the FEC would consider to be an illegal corporate donation.
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An investigation from the far-left Vice Magazine found that only conservatives users were being subjected to the Twitter search filtering that impacted Gaetz.  The lawmaker said that Twitter and other social media platforms use the federal government to get rid of lawsuits that they want dismissed by using a provision stating that they are a neutral public forum, yet they are enacting political censorship.
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Twitter responded to accusations of shadow ban censorship by denying that they use this tool, which they narrowly defined as “deliberately making someone’s content discoverable to everyone except the person who posted it.”  However, Twitter then admitted that it does shadow ban users by blocking tweets from accounts users choose to follow from showing up in their feeds.  What is the point of of a ‘follow’ button if tweets from people you want to follow don’t appear in your feed?
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Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey further admitted that users’ timelines are ranked, and those tweets deemed ‘irrelevant’ do not appear.  Dorsey was referring to a “quality filter” which is on by default. Most Twitter users don’t even know how to turn this filter ‘off’.
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Twitter also said in their blog post, they use three signals when determining whether an account is a “bad faith actor” and will ultimately be ‘down ranked’ (shadow banned).  One of the signals includes how others interact with you, and if enough people mute or block you, your tweets get further down-ranked.  The left stages mass-blocking campaigns, weaponizing the system to silence and censor their opposition.
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James O’Keefe’s Project Veritas recorded Pranay Singh, a direct messaging engineer for Twitter, on video admitting that the company uses shadow banning to censor conservatives and Republicans.
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Twitter stock tumbled 20% Friday after user numbers declined.

Sources:

https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2018/07/breaking-rep-matt-gaetz-files-federal-election-commission-complaint-against-twitter/

https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2018/07/twitter-admits-they-shadowban-republicans-in-orwellian-statement/




FBI Has Ongoing Relationship with Left-Wing SPLC Group that Uses ‘Hate’ Designations to Target Its Enemies and Crush People

Tucker Carlson reported that the FBI has an “ongoing” relationship with the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC), a left-wing nonprofit that once placed Housing and Urban Development Secretary Dr. Ben Carson on an “extremist watch list.”  He said that the SPLC is a fraudulent enterprise and further stated that It’s a left-wing political group that uses ‘hate crime’ designations to target its ideological enemies and to crush people.  In addition, Twitter, Facebook and Amazon consult with the SPLC in policing their platforms for “hate speech” or “hate groups.”

  • The FBI has an ongoing relationship with the left-wing Southern Poverty Law Center, Fox News host Tucker Carlson reported.
  • The SPLC once placed HUD Secretary Dr. Ben Carson on an “extremist watch list,” before backing down and removing him four months later.
  • The SPLC also works with Amazon, Twitter, Google and Facebook in their efforts to police their platforms.
  • The SPLC’s work has been plagued by inaccuracies and the group paid out a $3.3 million settlement in April.

The FBI has an “ongoing” relationship with the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC), a left-wing nonprofit that once placed Housing and Urban Development Secretary Dr. Ben Carson on an “extremist watch list.”

That’s according to an exclusive report from Fox News host and Daily Caller co-founder Tucker Carlson, who broke the news on his show “Tucker Carlson Tonight” Friday.

“Well as you already know if you’ve been paying any attention at all, the Southern Poverty Law Center is a fraudulent enterprise,” said Carlson. “It’s a left-wing political group that uses ‘hate crime’ designations to target its ideological enemies and to crush people.”

“The SPLC has repeatedly been allowed to brief the FBI on alleged domestic terrorist threats to this country,” Carlson reported. “Disturbingly though, the relationship is ongoing, if you can believe it.”

“Despite multiple requests from this program, the FBI has refused to describe the extent of its collaboration with the SPLC, we’ve asked repeatedly, or even to explain why it continues to work with a group like that,” Carlson said, noting the agency would only offer bland statements.

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Trump Supporters Who Were Attacked by Leftists Win Right to Sue San Jose Police for ‘Stand Down’ Orders at 2016 Rally

California: Three judges ruled that Trump supporters who were attacked by leftists at a 2016 Trump rally may sue the police for funneling them into a violent crowd of anti-Trump protesters and refused to protect them.  The city tried to get the lawsuit dismissed by arguing that the Trump supporters should have expected to be assaulted at the rally.  The judges rejected the defense, siding with Trump supporters. The police claimed that they did not intervene because it could have led to more violence and even riots. 

Fourteen victims of anti-Trump rioters at a Trump campaign rally in San Jose, California in June 2016 filed a class action federal civil rights lawsuit in July against San Jose Mayor Sam Liccardo, Police Chief Edgardo Garcia, the City of San Jose and several named and unknown attackers.

Dozens of Trump supporters were assaulted, spit on, beaten, cold-cocked, egged, chased, tackled and bloodied as they left the San Jose Trump rally by mobs of far left, Mexican nationalist, Socialist, SEIU and anarchist thugs.

One female Trump supporter was egged and spit on by hundreds of Mexican nationalists chanting “F*ck you!”
Another Trump supporter was cold-cocked with a bag of rocks while walking to his car and left bleeding.

One young Trump supporter was followed and cold-cocked and left bleeding as he walked to his vehicle.

Another woman was cornered by a mob of Mexican nationalist chanting “F*ck you!” They beaned her in the face with raw eggs and spit on her.

It was not until she lost her vision that the Marriott staff let her in.
Thanks Marriott!

(Note: The liberal Washington Post said she “taunted” them — by wearing a Trump shirt, smiling, and flashing the peace sign!)

They chased Trump supporters down the street.
They beat their heads.
Dozens of Trump supporters were beaten and bloodied.

One black Muslim chased down and tackled a young Trump supporter with his thug buddies. He later bragged about it on Twitter.

Several Trump supporters were cold-cocked and left staggering.
The San Jose police were noticibly absent.

Two of the victims filing suit were featured in national reporting over the attacks on them: A teenage boy who was rabbit-punched and then chased and tackled by the mob, and a woman who was chased, cornered and pelted with eggs and bottles by the mob.

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Republican Lawmaker Kevin Yoder Sneaks New Asylum Rules into Budget that Will Destroy US Borders

Republican Representative Kevin Yoder  advanced an amendment to a spending bill that would nullify Attorney General Jeff Sessions’ decision to stop granting asylum to people who claim “credible fear” from gang violence and domestic violence, essentially throwing US borders wide open to hundreds of millions of migrants from Latin America.  Republican lawmakers are betraying Americans who voted for them by refusing to change immigration laws when they had the chance and majority in both the House and Senate.

By JW Williams
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The Republicans’ Department of Homeland Security spending bill, which is a “must pass” budget, includes the ‘Price Amendment’ that could reverse Attorney General Jeff Sessions’ reforms on asylum that stopped illegal aliens from claiming asylum under “credible fear” of gang violence or domestic violence.  Fox News host Laura Ingraham pointed out that if the new barometer for asylum status is whether a foreigner feels safe in his or her own country (and private home), we might as well throw the borders wide open.

This could cause hundreds of millions of people to migrate to America based on this interpretation of the law!  The Center for Immigration Studies estimates that 32 million new voting age adults could resettle in the US by 2036.  Democrats support this agenda to gain new voters while big business backs the agenda to gain cheap labor.
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Republican Representatives Kevin Yoder and Rod Frelinghuysen allowed the amendment into the bill with only a sneaky voice vote.  If members were forced to vote on the record, and face accountability, the vote may have been different.
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Three more amendments would allow more than triple the number of guest worker visas while eliminating per-country limits on employment-based green cards that would favor nationals from India and China to replace American workers in the tech industry.
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Amazon and Microsoft applauded Yoder’s amendment that would fast-track 200,000 Indian visa-workers, who are willing to work long hours for low pay, in the pursuit of gaining citizenship and using chain migration to bring in their spouses, parents, children, and more.
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American workers are being replaced by foreigners.
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Dan Stein, president of the Federation for American Immigration Reform (FAIR) said, “There is at least one redeeming feature of the spending bill; the inclusion of $5 billion in border wall funding, which earned Congressman Yoder the praise and endorsement of President Trump. However, we would be remiss not to remind the administration that the border wall is absolutely useless with asylum laws that encourage thousands of economic migrants to make frivolous claims and then disappear into the illegal alien population.
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“The only proper recourse is for several of these egregious provisions to be stripped in the House Rules Committee. If Congressman Yoder wants to join with Democrats to enact radical anti-borders immigration policies, he should do so when the American people are watching, with fair and open debate, not by hijacking must pass pieces of legislation.”
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Both Democrat and Republican lawmakers who refuse to pass sensible immigration laws are the enemy of the American people.
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Sources:

http://dailycaller.com/2018/07/28/republican-immigration-asylum-guest-worker-visas/

https://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2018/07/27/rep-yoder-gop-offer-giveway-to-200000-foreign-graduates-and-tech-industries/

https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2018/07/gop-lawmakers-led-by-rep-kevin-yoder-pass-vote-allowing-gang-domestic-violence-victims-to-enter-us-could-double-us-population/

https://www.fairus.org/press-releases/fair-yoder-defies-trump-administration-attempts-rewrite-immigration-law