For years, several top conservative outlets have been censored and smeared on Twitter and X.
It is clear that X is using algorithms and outside leftist groups to smear and censor conservative websites on X.
The Gateway Pundit may be one of the top censored publications on X today. Before The Gateway Pundit X account was banned in 2021 after the 2020 election, we were one of the most popular conservative accounts on the platform. Then, during COVID and following the 2020 election, we were censored, banned, and silenced.
We asked @Grok, the Twitter X AI program, why we were censored on X back in 2023. Grok responded that it was because The Gateway Pundit is labeled a far-right website known for publishing “controversial” content and “conspiracy theories.” Grok also told us their information came from Media Matters for America – the far-left website whose mission is to eliminate conservative voices on TV, in print media, and on social media. Grok was using a 2017 Media Matters opinion piece that reported on 20 TGP articles to smear us as “controversial” and pushing “conspiracy theory.”
The fact that Twitter-X was using Media Matters to censor conservative websites was surprising to us since Elon Musk and Twitter are suing Media Matters for lying to advertisers about the social media giant.
Recently, Grok and X have apparently turned to a new source to determine which media outlets are blocked and censored and which outlets get the green light.
What we found was very disturbing.
Grok and X are now working with the far-left “fact check” website Media Bias-Fact Check website to determine what outlets are trustworthy versus those that have “low credibility.”
This is just astonishing!
Grok and X are using a far-left site to determine which media accounts are censored and smeared and will get no traffic.
Media Bias/Fact Check outlet lists conservative outlets as “low credibility” and lists far left or leftist mainstream outlets as “high credibility.”
The Gateway Pundit contributor Alicia Powe wrote about Media Bias/Fact Check website years ago and nothing has changed since then.
In an effort to bolster the iron curtain and reinforce misinformation, an explosion of “fake-news” fact-checker sites devoted to delegitimizing The Gateway Pundit to continue to emerge.
The self-appointed gatekeepers of facts operate under the guise that they have no bias whatsoever and are typically cloaked behind a veil of anonymity.
Exhibit A: MediaBIasFactCheck.com, a fact-checking that prides itself as “the most comprehensive media bias resource in the Internet,” despite being run by an owner who was previously exposed for misleadingly claiming to be a journalist.
According to this fact-checking site, The Gateway Pundit is not “right-center” or “right,” but “extreme” and ranks “very low” in factual reporting for premising its reports on “failed facts on a near-daily basis.”
MediaBiasFactCheck.com also claims The Gateway Pundit reports “propaganda,” “conspiracy,” “Nationalism” and “Some Fake News” and shares its “low credibility” rating with every prominent centrist or right of center media organizations. These “fake-news”-selling media organizations include the Daily Caller, Breitbart, The Blaze, The Daily Wire, The Daily Mail, Epoch Times, The Federalist, Louder With Crowder, Project Veritas and Washington Free Beacon.
Note: These rankings were taken in 2021. Since then not much has changed AT ALL with their ranking system!
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Daily Mail –
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Project Veritas –
Notoriously left-leaning publications including Huffington Post, NPR, Daily Beast, The New York Times, The Young Turks, Southern Poverty Law Center and LA Times were all deemed “Left-Biased” or “Left-Center” and ranked favorably with “high credibility” by the formidable “experts” of fake news.
Daily Beast –
NPR –
LA Times –
The New York Times –
Southern Poverty Law Center –
Dave Van Zandt, owner of MediaBiasFactCheck.com, touts his site as frequently being referenced by reputable center-left sources including “USA Today, Reuters Fact Check, Science Feedback, Washington Post, and NPR, among dozens of others.”
Like MediaBiasFactCheck.com, its competitors, which are deemed by big tech as the nation’s most prominent fact-checking organizations, tilt to the political left.
PolitiFact, which has previously the assertion “people can change their sex just because they feel that they are not their biological sex” is a “fact,” is heavily funded by leftist institutions including the Ford Foundation, the Tides Foundation, the Omidyar Network Fund.
The Washington Post’s Fact Checker, which uses Pinocchio ratings to rank the truthfulness of statements, is owned by Amazon.com CEO Jeff Bezos. In 2016, Bezos, a Democratic Party donor, deployed an army of 20 newspaper staffers to scour Donald Trump’s life for any dirt they could find on the presumptive GOP nominee.
Snopes’ “principal fact-checker” Kim LaCapria is a former sex-and-fetish blogger who described her routine as smoking pot.
The fact-checkers are giving their funders a bang for their buck. After all, low-information voters believe their fact-checking is legitimate.
So why is X and Grok using Media Bias/Fact Check website to smear and censor conservative outlets on the platform?
We were told X was going to be a free exchange of ideas.
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