Truth Social was of course set up as an alternative to twitter where free speech
would not just be some sort of vague aspiration.
No, that would be the whole point.
They're not going to be banning people, shadow banning people or anything like
that and at this point in the intro, where do you think I'm going with this?
Where do you think?
They're doing those things, yeah, no and specifically shadow banning people.
The stuff that enrages the right the most.
Don Jr loves talking about being shadow banned, Dave Rubin every day,
it's I've been shadow banned, now they're shadow banning people.
Public Citizen Great organization has been looking into this.
They heard complaints from people that they were unable to post about topics,
including for instance, the January 6th House Select committee or
about the fight for abortion access.
They found that content was not allowed.
So they say, our own research on the platform confirms that
the site engages in shadow banning, which is fully or
partially blocking users content without warning notice or recourse.
This is prevailing with regard to both progressive subject matter and
across various other topics.
So yes, this is politically biased censorship,
which they've implied they would never do.
It's generally about progressive stuff, but
there's some weird exceptions that we need to dive into.
First of all though,
any post containing the phrase abortion is healthcare automatically shadow banned.
You can go to the backyard with your free speech concerns if it's about abortion is
healthcare, nope, you don't get to talk about it, screw you.
You have the wrong opinions.
Your opinions are by definition politically incorrect, I guess, and
they will not be allowed.
They will cancel you as part of the culture they're setting up anyway.
It's not just that, let's see,
one woman at Public Citizen talks about trying to get that stuff to be posted.
She wouldn't even get a notification saying, that her truth had been posted.
But it hadn't you couldn't actually see it when you searched for it.
You've got a post like this that talk about birth control, regulation and
that sort of thing.
No, those were shadow banned as well.
You have a lot of banning going on around the January 6th committee hearing.
So for instance, if you share a video of Ivanka Trump doubting her father's claims
that the election was stolen,
that's it, your free speech rights or whatever, they're gone.
But it isn't just that, take a look at this,
this is a post about Ukraine and Zelinsky.
And isn't that a conservative music guy?
This isn't even liber progressive stuff, this ain't lefty stuff,
I don't even know why that was banned, but it was banned.
It was taken down, because that's what they do, because all their claims about
free speech and censorship and cancel culture and political correctness.
It was a massive lie and you should have known it all along.
If you're a conservative, you should have known that they were lying to you, but
this is how they wanna run it.
They've created a safe space for conservatives except Blake something,
isn't that his name?
Blake something, cuz I have safe space for him.
>> Shelton. >> Blake Shelton, sexiest man in America,
I remember, anyway, he was one year, okay.
But anyway, no, they're doing the censorship,
they're doing the shadow banning.
For some time now, we here at the Damage Report were mocking Donald Trump for
having no interest whatsoever.
And using his own social media network, Truth Social or Trump Central.
He says, I would like to apologize for that because now he is using it and
it turns out that's worse.
Take a look at this tweet that Maga King Fano sent out and
take a look at who retruthed it.
It just says civil war.
That is the former President of the United States.
Seeing a truth civil war and thinking, I gotta spread that to all my,
I don't know, what do they call followers on this?
Truethers, I don't know, something, he liked that message now,
marks, exactly that is exactly what they are.
So where did this come from?
Well, okay, so Laura Logan had retweeted the president of El Salvador.
President El Salvador had tweeted with truth, the most powerful country in
the world is falling so fast that it makes you rethink what the real reasons are.
Something so big and powerful can't be destroyed so
quickly unless the enemy comes from within.
Okay, so the President El Salvador is saying without saying that there was
an internal plot to take down the United States.
Laura Logan who was once considered to be a future dignified right wing news person
and is now just hanging on Truth Social, she tweets it.
Maga King Fanos thinks that based on what the president of El Salvador said, we
need a civil war, and Trump comes in and thinks, yep, we're on let's do this thing.
Can you imagine if Obama had retweeted a call for
civil war following Donald Trump winning election?
Can you imagine what Fox News would have said about that and
would have been right to say about that?
>> Sure.
>> But this is just that that just happened on Truth Social, so who cares,
Francesca?
We're just moving on with our lives.
>> Isn't Thanos a bad guy?
>> I know, but they think it's the thing where.
>> Maga King Thanos, okay, so we wanna destroy the world.
>> He's bad, but now you're saying he's bad, so the ha ha's on you and
we like the bad guy cuz you don't like that we liked the bad guy.
That's literally the train of thought that the right has used.
>> Yeah, and again, back to countries who beat us in awfulness.
El Salvador already criminalized women who have abortions or alleged abortions.
A lot of them are in jail currently for 30 years for miscarriages.
Again, more than their rapists get time for in jail.
I did reporting on that specifically.
Other thing that El Salvador is doing, banking their entire economy on Bitcoin,
that's right.
And they're buying the dip meaning they're further digging themselves into
the Bitcoin hole.
El Salvador is a terrible example of a government that functions or works or
that we should be emulating.
And then here you go talking about the United States like that,
let's retweet it and then yeah, civil war.
Hey baby but why not?
>> Yeah, by the way, if you at this point are still actively falling and hoping for
Trump to get back to become president.
That is like literally buying the dip right there.
[LAUGH] >> [LAUGH]
>> He is dipped and
you're dipping with him man.