Professional social media site LinkedIn has joined in on ‘big tech’ censorship for those on the right, a presidential candidate at that.
Republican presidential candidate Vivek Ramaswamy was suspended from LinkedIn in what a journalist is calling “actual election interference.”
“This is the type of censorship we see across every social media platform,” Mollie Hemingway, editor-in-chief of The Federalist, told Fox News hosts John Roberts and Gillian Turner. “If you have viewpoints at odds with, frankly, the far-left people who run a lot of these organizations, you will be censored, you will be deplatformed, you will be flagged.”
Ramaswamy, a co-founder of Strive Asset Management, was locked out of his LinkedIn account with the social media giant citing two videos from February where Ramaswamy criticized President Joe Biden over China and a May 7 video where he said: “fossil fuels are a requirement for human prosperity.”
In response to Ramaswamy, Linkedin said, “We don’t tolerate misinformation, hate speech, violence, or any form of abuse on our platform.”
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Ramaswamy has criticized using Environmental, Social, and Governance(ESG) criteria in investing.
The professional social networking site did not elaborate on how those comments constituted “misinformation, hate speech, violence or any other form of abuse,” according to screenshots posted by Ramaswamy on Twitter.
“Very hard to believe it was a mistake when they were so specific and where all of it checks out. He really did post these viewpoints that are at odds with the views they hold,” Hemingway said. “They do say they were punishing him for holding these viewpoints that are different. The owner of LinkedIn, Reid Hoffman, has had a history of far-left activism.”
Here we have actual election interference, against someone running for office, by this company,” Hemingway said.
Conservatives believe censorship by social media companies tilted the 2020 presidential election, when Twitter locked multiple accounts, including the New York Post’s and the personal account of then-White House press secretary Kayleigh McEnany, for sharing an Oct. 14, 2020 report about the contents of a laptop abandoned by Hunter Biden at a Delaware computer repair shop, citing a “hacked materials” policy.
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