“Our focus is on the health of the service, and that includes work to remove fake accounts to prevent malicious behavior. Many prominent accounts have seen follower counts drop, but the result is higher confidence that the followers they have are real, engaged people.”
Interestingly enough, criticism against big tech companies is not mutually exclusive to the right-wing. Over the past year, left-leaning Americans have stated that social media platforms have a responsibility to combat the spread of disinformation. Americans have also speculated about the extent to which foreign entities have allegedly interfered in U.S. elections.
Allegations of Online Conservative Censorship
Allegations of conservative censorship via social media and big tech enterprises are not new. As a matter of fact, many of these reports have increased over the course of 2018. Plenty of conservatives believe the censorship of right-wing opinions is related to big tech’s ties to Silicon Valley. Silicon Valley is widely regarded as a liberal entity and also serves as the home to many big tech and social media platforms.
