Kurtz: Social Media Giants ‘Shredded Their Credibility with the One-Sided Approach to Censorship’

‘I understand that some Democrats and liberals have said Twitter should delete Trump’s account but that’s a very dangerous step’

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KURTZ: "Well, first of all, these social media giants have really shredded their credibility with the one-sided approach to censorship, constantly either slapping warning labels or limiting the distribution of posts by Trump and his allies and not doing anything remotely resembling that to the Democrats. Now I understand that some Democrats and liberals have said Twitter should delete Trump’s account, but that’s a very dangerous step. Now, it is true that Trump, the president, is tweeting a lot about election fraud, making some unsupported claims. At least Twitter is just labeling those as opposed to completely evaporating them as they did with that 'New York Post' report on Hunter Biden. But if Twitter or Facebook or any of these other Silicon Valley companies were to take a step of just slapping a warning label on an entire account by a prominent Republican or a conservative, I think it would be an assault on free speech and I think would speed up the exodus, some of which we're already seeing, by people on the right who no longer trust these companies."

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