Social media doesn’t just censor one political view

By Lethbridge Herald on January 6, 2023.

Editor:

For all the prominent conservative proclamations implying otherwise, including Elon Musk’s “Twitter Files”, I’ve found social media also silences left-wing environmentalist voices critical of the fossil fuel industry. It’s not just right-wing opinions being censored. 

Also, my own Facebook and Twitter accounts were disabled without any explanation a little over three years ago; the relatively few dislikes I received while the accounts were operational originated from pro-fossil-fuel sources. 

Still, social media have enabled far greater information freedom than that allowed by what had been a rigidly gatekept news and information virtual monopoly held by the pre-2000 electronic and print mainstream news-media. 

Frank Sterle Jr. 

White Ro​ck, B.C.