{"id":1737115,"date":"2022-11-13T06:30:18","date_gmt":"2022-11-13T11:30:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1737115"},"modified":"2022-11-13T11:19:20","modified_gmt":"2022-11-13T16:19:20","slug":"adriana-cohen-ad-boycott-of-musks-twitter-underscore-dems-free-speech-hypocrisy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/adriana-cohen-ad-boycott-of-musks-twitter-underscore-dems-free-speech-hypocrisy\/","title":{"rendered":"Adriana Cohen: Ad Boycott of Musk\u2019s Twitter Underscore Dems\u2019 \u201cFree-Speech\u201d Hypocrisy"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">22<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fadriana-cohen-ad-boycott-of-musks-twitter-underscore-dems-free-speech-hypocrisy%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1737115&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><aside class=\"single__inline-module alignleft\">\n<\/aside>\n<p>When it comes to policing free speech, Democrats are experts in hypocrisy and double standards. They feign \u201coutrage\u201d over alleged misinformation, conspiracy theories and other repugnant speech when it hurts their side but conveniently turn a blind eye when it benefits them by weakening their political opponents.<\/p>\n<p>Take the latest advertiser <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2022\/11\/09\/elon-musk-to-meet-with-twitter-advertisers-as-tensions-rise-report\/\">boycott happening at Twitter.<\/a> Scores of so-called woke advertisers and cowardly corporations like food company General Mills, Oreo maker Mondelez International Inc., Volkswagen, Pfizer and other brands have halted their advertising with the social-media network at the behest of activist groups, since free speech enthusiast Elon Musk took over the platform.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019re continuing our call to companies to pause ALL advertising on Twitter,\u201d NAACP President Derrick Johnson tweeted recently. \u201cHate speech and disinformation have gone through the roof since Musk\u2019s acquisition. Until he makes this a safe space for all communities, companies cannot in good conscience put their money behind Twitter.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Johnson added, \u201cIn our meeting, Elon Musk made a commitment that he would do his part to protect the integrity of these midterms. But just days later, he fired employees at Twitter who oversee election mis- and disinformation. So we called on companies to pause all ad spending immediately.\u201d<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large is-resized\"><a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/11\/musk-twitter-351.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/musk-twitter-351.jpg\" alt=\"NAACP national president Derrick Johnson\" class=\"wp-image-24626907\" width=\"618\" height=\"411\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/11\/musk-twitter-351.jpg?quality=75&#038;strip=all&#038;w=1233 1236w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/11\/musk-twitter-351.jpg?quality=75&#038;strip=all&#038;w=925 927w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/11\/musk-twitter-351.jpg?quality=75&#038;strip=all&#038;w=618 618w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/11\/musk-twitter-351.jpg?quality=75&#038;strip=all&#038;w=308 309w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/11\/musk-twitter-351.jpg?quality=75&#038;strip=all 1024w\" \/><\/a><figcaption>NAACP National President Derrick Johnson has called for advertising to be halted since Musk\u2019s takeover. <\/figcaption><figcaption><span class=\"credit\">Rogelio V. Solis\/AP<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Of course, these same corporations and special-interest groups had no issue when misinformation and unfounded conspiracy theories ran wild on Twitter \u2014 for years \u2014 when its prior CEO, Jack Dorsey, ran the almighty platform.<\/p>\n<p>Under Dorsey, the five-alarm disinformation campaign known as the Russia Collusion Hoax that Democrats <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2022\/05\/23\/fbi-told-agents-trump-russia-data-source-was-from-doj-not-clinton-tied-lawyer\/\">waged <\/a>against former President Donald Trump was allowed to flourish. Without evidence, scores of Twitter users, including Democratic lawmakers and the media, were permitted to falsely accuse the former Republican president of colluding with the Kremlin to steal the 2016 election from Hillary Clinton.<\/p>\n<p>Those lies and tin-foil-hat conspiracy theories amplified on Twitter were based on a bogus dossier commissioned by the Democratic National Committee and Clinton\u2019s 2016 campaign and were debunked by Congressional investigations and the (2017-2019) special counsel Robert Mueller investigation, which <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2019\/03\/24\/attorney-general-sends-summary-of-mueller-report-to-congress\/\">found no evidence <\/a>of collusion.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe investigation did not establish that members of the Trump campaign conspired or coordinated with the Russian government in its election interference activities,\u201d stated the Mueller report.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/11\/musk-twitter-354.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"682\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/musk-twitter-354.jpg\" alt=\"Jack Dorsey\" class=\"wp-image-24626910\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/11\/musk-twitter-354.jpg?quality=75&#038;strip=all&#038;w=1535 1536w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/11\/musk-twitter-354.jpg?quality=75&#038;strip=all 1024w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/11\/musk-twitter-354.jpg?quality=75&#038;strip=all&#038;w=512 512w\" \/><\/a><figcaption>Under Dorsey, Twitter\u2019s left-wing content monitors were censoring conservatives en masse, including shadow-banning several top GOP lawmakers on the platform<\/figcaption><figcaption><span class=\"credit\">Joe Raedle\/Getty Images<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Did any of the current crop of \u201cwoke\u201d corporations and left-wing activist groups call for advertising boycotts back then? Or at minimum, did any publicly condemn those responsible for spreading a massive disinformation and smear campaign against a former duly elected president that harmed our democracy by sowing distrust in US elections?<\/p>\n<p>Of course not.<\/p>\n<p>Under Dorsey, Twitter\u2019s left-wing content monitors were censoring conservatives en masse, including shadow-banning several top GOP lawmakers on the platform. And in October 2020, Twitter also spiked the New York Post\u2019s factual reporting on Hunter Biden\u2019s abandoned laptop and shady overseas business dealings, helping Joe Biden get elected.<\/p>\n<p>Twitter also took the extra tyrannical step of <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2021\/03\/25\/dorsey-says-blocking-posts-hunter-biden-story-was-total-mistake\/\">shuttering The Post\u2019s Twitter account<\/a> for several weeks at a critical time leading up to a major election, violating longstanding norms surrounding a \u201cfree press.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Again, did these \u201cwoke\u201d corporations band together like they\u2019re doing now and suspend their Twitter advertising in protest?<\/p>\n<p>Nope!<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/11\/musk-twitter-355.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"682\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/musk-twitter-355.jpg\" alt=\"Elon Musk\" class=\"wp-image-24626912\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/11\/musk-twitter-355.jpg?quality=75&#038;strip=all&#038;w=1535 1536w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/11\/musk-twitter-355.jpg?quality=75&#038;strip=all 1024w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/11\/musk-twitter-355.jpg?quality=75&#038;strip=all&#038;w=512 512w\" \/><\/a><figcaption>Musk bought out Twitter recently, slashing its staff in an effort to recoup losses. <\/figcaption><figcaption><span class=\"credit\">Theo Wargo\/Getty Images for TIME<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>But now, with Musk, who has publicly criticized the Democratic Party on Twitter and recently <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2022\/11\/07\/elon-musk-recommends-votes-for-republican-congress-in-midterms\/\">encouraged independents<\/a> to vote for Republicans in the latest midterm elections, the \u201cwoke\u201d mob is pressuring companies to yank their advertising revenue from the platform.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTwitter has had a massive drop in revenue, due to activist groups pressuring advertisers, even though nothing has changed with content moderation and we did everything we could to appease the activists. Extremely messed up! They\u2019re trying to destroy free speech in America,\u201d Musk tweeted recently.<\/p>\n<p>Bottom line: The one-sided advertising boycotts are political. It\u2019s all about Democrats\u2019 unquenchable desire to control speech and public discourse to maintain power. Anyone who gets in their way pays a price.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When it comes to policing free speech, Democrats are experts in hypocrisy and double standards. 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