{"id":187295,"date":"2018-08-21T08:19:20","date_gmt":"2018-08-21T13:19:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.liveaction.org\/news\/?p=187295"},"modified":"2018-08-20T23:33:22","modified_gmt":"2018-08-21T04:33:22","slug":"trump-social-media-bias","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/trump-social-media-bias\/","title":{"rendered":"President Trump slams same social media bias suppressing Live Action ads"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;\" class=\"sharethis-inline-share-buttons\" ><\/div><p>Live Action has, since 2015, been <a href=\"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/twitter-still-suppressing-pro-life\/\">fighting Twitter for suppressing ads<\/a> due to so-called &#8220;inflammatory&#8221; content &#8212; like <em>ultrasound photos<\/em>. As previously reported, in addition to simply calling the ads themselves inflammatory and &#8220;offensive,&#8221; Live Action&#8217;s email exchanges with Twitter &#8220;show[ed] that the social media outlet required that Live Action remove such &#8216;sensitive content&#8217;\u00a0<em>from our own website<\/em> before it would run our ads.&#8221; And yet, the social media giant seems to have no problems running inflammatory political ads for Planned Parenthood:<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-168237\" src=\"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/Twitter-and-Live-Action-Example-1.jpg\" alt=\"Twitter and Live Action Example 1\" width=\"645\" height=\"517\" srcset=\"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/Twitter-and-Live-Action-Example-1.jpg 645w, https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/Twitter-and-Live-Action-Example-1-300x240.jpg 300w, https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/Twitter-and-Live-Action-Example-1-500x401.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 645px) 100vw, 645px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-168236\" src=\"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/Twitter-and-Live-Action-Example-2.jpg\" alt=\"Twitter and Live Action Example 2\" width=\"644\" height=\"345\" srcset=\"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/Twitter-and-Live-Action-Example-2.jpg 644w, https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/Twitter-and-Live-Action-Example-2-300x161.jpg 300w, https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/Twitter-and-Live-Action-Example-2-500x268.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 644px) 100vw, 644px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>This &#8220;pro-Planned Parenthood, pro-abortion bias&#8221; is bad enough in the mainstream media; when it is suppressed on what should be a much more open platform &#8212; social media &#8212; as Live Action News noted previously, &#8220;this robs millions of people of the opportunity to hear the pro-life viewpoint.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>On Saturday, President Trump smacked down this kind of anti-life, anti-conservative bias &#8212; seen most recently in Facebook&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2018\/08\/17\/prageru-facebook-google-youtube\/\">censoring of Prager U&#8217;s conservative videos from its own followers<\/a> &#8212; posting on his Twitter account that &#8220;censorship is a very dangerous thing&#8221;:<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-lang=\"en\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Social Media is totally discriminating against Republican\/Conservative voices. Speaking loudly and clearly for the Trump Administration, we won\u2019t let that happen. They are closing down the opinions of many people on the RIGHT, while at the same time doing nothing to others&#8230;&#8230;.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/realDonaldTrump\/status\/1030777074959757313?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">August 18, 2018<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-lang=\"en\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">&#8230;..Censorship is a very dangerous thing &amp; absolutely impossible to police. If you are weeding out Fake News, there is nothing so Fake as CNN &amp; MSNBC, &amp; yet I do not ask that their sick behavior be removed. I get used to it and watch with a grain of salt, or don\u2019t watch at all..<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/realDonaldTrump\/status\/1030779412973846529?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">August 18, 2018<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>According to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.msn.com\/en-us\/news\/politics\/political-consultant-twitter-ceo-may-be-last-honest-person-on-platform-bias\/ar-BBMby32\">MSN News<\/a>, &#8220;[Twitter CEO Jack]\u00a0Dorsey told CNN in an interview that aired on Saturday that he &#8216;fully admit[s]&#8217; that Twitter employees tend to share a more left-leaning bias and that he hasn&#8217;t done enough when it comes &#8216;being open about our own personal views.'&#8221; It was after this admission that the president tweeted his remarks.<\/p>\n<p>A recent Gallup poll <a href=\"https:\/\/news.gallup.com\/opinion\/gallup\/240587\/americans-views-news-content-internet-companies.aspx\">showed<\/a> that 80 percent of Americans don&#8217;t want their media content censored for political or ideological reasons. Perhaps social media giants should take note and begin to police themselves rather than groups with which they disagree.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Live Action has, since 2015, been fighting Twitter for suppressing ads due to so-called &#8220;inflammatory&#8221; content &#8212; like ultrasound photos. As previously reported, in addition to simply calling the ads themselves inflammatory and &#8220;offensive,&#8221; Live Action&#8217;s email exchanges with Twitter &#8220;show[ed] that the social media outlet required that Live Action remove such &#8216;sensitive content&#8217;\u00a0from our [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":292,"featured_media":187299,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false},"categories":[6,3473],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v20.7 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>President Trump slams same social media bias suppressing Live Action ads<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"On Saturday, President Trump took aim at social media for suppressing certain voices, tweeting that &quot;censorship is a very dangerous thing.&quot;\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, 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