Big tech censorship is ramping up as the 2024 presidential election gets closer, and Glenn Beck is concerned what this means for independent content creators.
“We have been witnessing a very disturbing trend in social media. Lately, the giants of Silicon Valley are attempting to control the narrative and dictate what information you have access to by punishing people like me, or perhaps like you, for wrong think,” he says.
Glenn believes this is a “blatant assault on your freedom of speech,” and they’re using him as an example.
Last week, Glenn’s team discovered that Apple had rated everything in his Apple podcast library as explicit content — even though his radio program is FCC-regulated.
However, after a discussion with Apple, it will remove the explicit label within a couple of business days.
“They will take a couple of days and correct this,” Glenn explains, calling the tactic “soft censorship.”
In addition, Facebook is making shadow-banning a company policy now. For those unfamiliar with the term, shadow-banning refers to blocking a content creator from a social media platform or online forum but not informing them that they've been blocked. That usually means their content — posts and comments — are no longer visible to users.
“They’re just rounding up everybody that disagrees with the government, and they just put them in this little digital ghetto,” Glenn says. “There’s a wall around it; well, they can speak all they want, but nobody’s going to hear them.”
Apparently, Facebook will be shadow-banning all political content — but Glenn isn’t sure what qualifies as political content to Meta.
“I’d like to know what Facebook considers to be political content. Is advertising LGBTQ issues to kids considered political? I bet not. How about content on the benefits of abortion — is that political?” he asks.
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Twitter owner Elon Musk revealed Sunday why the @LibsOfTikTok account had been throttled in recent weeks, saying an automated system had detected nudity in some media the account had posted.
The @LibsOfTikTok account, run by author and activist Chaya Raichik, tagged Elon Musk Sunday in a tweet airing concerns that her account had been shadow banned, meaning, in part, that people who search for the account are unable to find it.
"Hi @elonmusk, these are just some of the messages I received in the past week. I’ve been shadowbanned for weeks now. Is there a reason why accounts are still getting throttled like this in Twitter 2.0?" she asked.
The post included screenshots from several people alerting her to the problem.
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Musk, who subscribes to @LibsOfTikTok's content, responded a few hours later, both acknowledging and addressing the issue.
It was the titillating details on what caused the issue in the first place that quickly set Twitter abuzz.
Twitter apparently runs some sort of automated mechanism that detects nudity. That mechanism detected nudity in some of @LibsOfTikTok's media, specifically, media covering a Pride parade.
The term Musk used to describe the nudity detection mechanism was "d**k pic bot."
"Your account was labeled as NSFW by our d**k pic bot on 6/26, because you posted media with nudity from Pride parades," Musk tweeted. "NSFW" means "not safe for work."
"Corrective action is to label the individual posts as NSFW, rather than the whole account. Should be fixed now," he also said.
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The @LibsOfTikTok account thanked Musk for fixing the issue and included a screenshot showing she was no longer shadow banned.
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"Twitter. has a d**k pic bot," Raichik posted later from her personal account, including a crying laughing face emoji.
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It was not clear which specific media triggered the detection mechanism and subsequent shadow banning. Multiple Pride parades during the month of June featured unclothed or scantily-clothed people, as TheBlaze reported.
Rose Montoya, a 27-year-old transgender person, cupped surgically-created breasts on the White House lawn after meeting President Biden during a Pride celebration party on June 10.
Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre condemned the shameful behavior, calling it "simply unacceptable," and added that the individuals who engaged in the inappropriate behavior would not be invited back, CNN reported.
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