A Sunday editorial by The Washington Times claimed that Democrat Joe Biden’s 2020 election victory was driven by big technology companies like Facebook, Twitter, and Google.
“The just-completed 2020 presidential election featured a torrent of political messages designed to win votes, but the flow was channeled to shield voters from messages that conflicted with ‘progressive’ values dear to social media’s masters,” the publication wrote.
“Put bluntly, Big Tech played a pivotal role in Joe Biden’s apparent victory and Donald Trump’s defeat.”
The Washington Times pointed to a Media Research Center study released on Monday that found that Twitter “censored, suppressed and limited” Donald Trump and his campaign on 543 occasions since 2018. Conversely, Twitter has never done the same to President-elect Joe Biden and his campaign. The publication’s analysis also pointed to Instagram and its purportedly irrelevant fact-checks of the president, as well as Google’s YouTube, which it accused of obscuring content that leans left.
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