Conservative Leaders Call for Investigation Into Social Media Censorship
< < Go Back
On Thursday, Media Research Center President Brent Bozell and other conservative leaders released the following joint letter to Attorney General William Barr, detailing the growing threat of online censorship from social media outlets such as Facebook, Twitter, Google, and YouTube.
The letter calls for action, saying, “During such a turbulent time in our nation’s political system, it is crucial that you investigate how these social media/search media powerhouses wield their power to sway elections.”
The full letter can be found here.
The examples of an agenda against conservatives that we have documented over the past year are just a few of the many we have encountered.
The political agenda of these organizations by itself is not the only issue. It is the influence these organizations possess in addition to their bias which makes them so dangerous.
According to Statista:
In the last reported quarter, “the number of monthly active U.S. Twitter users amounted to 68 million. With more than 336 million monthly active users worldwide as of the first quarter of 2018, Twitter is one of the biggest social networks worldwide. The number of U.S. Twitter users is projected to surpass 70 million in 2020.”
In 2019, the number of Facebook users in the United States is expected to reach 211.3 million, up from 197.7 million in 2016. As of the second quarter of 2017, the social network was accessed by 2 billion users on a monthly basis, making it the most popular social network worldwide.
In 2018 Google generated 63.2 percent of all core search queries in the United States. In terms of the mobile search market in the United States, Google leads again with over 93 percent market share.
And according to We Are Social and Hootsuite, there are now 3.48 billion total social media users around the globe.
More From MRC Newsbusters: