| − | '''Twitter, Inc.''' is a [[Big Tech]] social networking tool, controlled until recently by liberals ([[Twitter#Sale to Elon Musk|see below]]), that rapidly emerged as a new medium of online [[news]] distribution. The free microblogging [[website]], where users can submit messages containing 140 characters or less to their followers, was co-founded by [[Jack Dorsey]] and Evan Williams. ''Twitter'' is a privately funded startup established by Obvious.com in [[San Francisco]], on March 21, 2006.<ref>[http://mashable.com/2009/03/21/happy-birthday-twitter/ Happy Birthday Twitter!] Mashable</ref><ref>[http://cellphones.about.com/od/textmessaging/a/twittertexting.htm Twitter: Free Microblogging Service Perhaps the Perfect Mobile Blogging Tool, About.com, August 16, 2008]</ref> Under liberal control, official Twitter policy was supportive of anarcho-Marxism, was intolerant of dissidence (see [[liberal censorship]]), and lacked diversity of opinion. As of mid-2020 Twitter has enjoyed [[Section 230]] immunity from prosecution for its election interference and other abuses, as well as [[monopoly]] control. There has been widespread discontent over Twitter's abuses of the public trust under its previous liberal ownership. It has been characterized as the "Wuhan wet market of ideas."<ref>https://youtu.be/DdYwUdRukV4</ref> Dorsey eventually resigned from running the site, although his replacement was even more radical than him. Dorsey's successor clearly stated that he was against the First Amendment and against freedom of speech.<ref>[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kaJvT1c4XGE Parag Agrawal, Twitter's CEO, is SICK of All These Uncensored Opinions! | Louder With Crowder]</ref> | + | '''Twitter, Inc.''' is a [[Big Tech]] social networking tool, controlled until recently by liberals ([[Twitter#Sale to Elon Musk|see below]]), which emerged as a new medium of online [[news]] distribution but has been infested by [[troll]]s and fake accounts. The claimed numbers of followers of [[liberal]] figures on it are falsely inflated, such that one audit in 2022 concluded that nearly half of [[Joe Biden]]’s Twitter followers are fake.<ref>https://www.breitbart.com/tech/2022/05/18/audit-reveals-almost-half-of-joe-bidens-twitter-followers-are-fake/</ref> |
| | + | As a free microblogging [[website]], Twitter users can submit messages containing 140 characters or less to their followers, was co-founded by [[Jack Dorsey]] and Evan Williams. ''Twitter'' is a privately funded startup established by Obvious.com in [[San Francisco]], on March 21, 2006.<ref>[http://mashable.com/2009/03/21/happy-birthday-twitter/ Happy Birthday Twitter!] Mashable</ref><ref>[http://cellphones.about.com/od/textmessaging/a/twittertexting.htm Twitter: Free Microblogging Service Perhaps the Perfect Mobile Blogging Tool, About.com, August 16, 2008]</ref> Under liberal control, official Twitter policy was supportive of anarcho-Marxism, was intolerant of dissidence (see [[liberal censorship]]), and lacked diversity of opinion. As of mid-2020 Twitter has enjoyed [[Section 230]] immunity from prosecution for its election interference and other abuses, as well as [[monopoly]] control. There has been widespread discontent over Twitter's abuses of the public trust under its previous liberal ownership. It has been characterized as the "Wuhan wet market of ideas."<ref>https://youtu.be/DdYwUdRukV4</ref> Dorsey eventually resigned from running the site, although his replacement was even more radical than him. Dorsey's successor clearly stated that he was against the First Amendment and against freedom of speech.<ref>[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kaJvT1c4XGE Parag Agrawal, Twitter's CEO, is SICK of All These Uncensored Opinions! | Louder With Crowder]</ref> |
| | In 2022, entrepreneur/free speech advocate [[Elon Musk]] attempted to salvage the project which still has a reported liquidating value of $43 billion. | | In 2022, entrepreneur/free speech advocate [[Elon Musk]] attempted to salvage the project which still has a reported liquidating value of $43 billion. |