Independent journalist and Twitter Files reporter Michael Shellenberger spoke with Fox News Digital about the censorship on the emerging Meta-owned platform Threads.
Independent journalist and Twitter Files reporter Michael Shellenberger spoke with Fox News Digital about the newly-launched Meta app Threads.
But"literally within the first few minutes" of being on Threads, he noticed rampant censorship taking place, citing the platform's throttling of accounts like conservative activist Rogan O'Handley.
There had been a growing appetite particularly within liberals circles to abandon Twitter ever since Musk took over the tech giant last year, something Shellenberger believes is their lack of support towards free speech principles. "In other words, we all think, 'Oh, well, we'll know when the fascists arrive because they're mean.' Well, what happens if the fascists are friendly? What happens if the censorship is done in the name of protecting vulnerable communities?" Shellenberger explained."So this idea that you need friendliness or that you need to protect vulnerable communities, and in order to do that, you have to spy upon and censor your fellow Americans, it's grotesque.
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