2020 Election - Page 71

New York Times Praises Twitter and Facebook for Design Changes to Aid Censorship

The New York Times praises social media firms Facebook and Twitter for censoring posts from President Trump during the 2020 presidential election. According to the Times, the social media companies added “friction” to their interfaces leading up to the election, “as if Ferrari had realized that it could only stop its cars from crashing by replacing the engines with go-kart motors.”

Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg testifies via video conference, before the House Judiciary Su

Twitter Censors 6 Trump Posts in 24 Hours

Twitter has actively censored six of President Donald Trump’s posts over the 24 hours between Thursday midmorning and Friday. Twitter’s censorship can lower the engagement of a Trump tweet by more than 80 percent, according to one recent analysis of their performance.

Jack Dorsey on screen in Senate