{"id":1907478,"date":"2023-03-30T23:26:53","date_gmt":"2023-03-31T03:26:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/study-free-speech-on-twitter-worse-under-elon-musk\/"},"modified":"2023-03-30T23:34:51","modified_gmt":"2023-03-31T03:34:51","slug":"study-free-speech-on-twitter-worse-under-elon-musk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/study-free-speech-on-twitter-worse-under-elon-musk\/","title":{"rendered":"Study: Free Speech On Twitter Worse Under Elon Musk\u00a0"},"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\">18<\/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%2Fstudy-free-speech-on-twitter-worse-under-elon-musk%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=1907478&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-->\n<div class=\"article-content\">\n<p>Following the censorship of Federalist CEO Sean Davis, several journalists, and a sitting member of Congress by Twitter for reporting on the \u201cTrans Day Of Vengeance\u201d after the Nashville Shooting, the Media Research Center (MRC) conducted a study on free speech on Twitter, revealing the company to have become even more oppressive since Elon Musk acquired the platform.<\/p>\n<p>Between Nov. 4, 2022, and Mar. 4, 2023, there were 293 cases of documented censorship, which is 67 more cases compared to the same time period last year pre-Musk Twitter, according to data from the MRC\u2019s Free Speech America\u2019s CensorTrack.org database.<\/p>\n<p>The MRC found Twitter\u2019s methods of censorship also recently became more severe, with Twitter locking users\u2019 accounts in 245 of the 293 documented cases of censorship. Additionally, 62 percent of the censorship cases under Musk\u2019s leadership involved tweets critical of transgenderism.<\/p>\n<p>On Tuesday, Federalist CEO Sean Davis, other journalists, and Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene were locked out of Twitter for reporting on the \u201cTrans Day Of Vengeance\u201d following the deaths of three children and three staff members at a Christian school in Tennessee at the hands of a transgender shooter.<\/p>\n<p>Twitter claimed Davis\u2019 tweet violated the app\u2019s rules \u201cagainst violent speech.\u201d However, Davis and Federalist Senior Editor John Davidson have been censored on Twitter for a year due to Twitter\u2019s insidious shadow banning practice that carried over from the platform\u2019s previous regime.<\/p>\n<p>Musk previously claimed he saw Twitter as the \u201cde facto town square\u201d and that \u201cfailing to adhere to free speech principles fundamentally undermines democracy.\u201d However, data from MRC shows that his \u201cfree speech absolutist\u201d Twitter rebrand has failed to live up to the hype. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cNo amount of lofty rhetoric or grandiose plans from Musk about his love of free speech and facts can compete with the cold, hard reality that the service he owns doesn\u2019t just oppose free speech; Twitter detests it,\u201d wrote Davis.<\/p>\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\">\n<div class=\"article-author-description fst-italic\">\nEvita Duffy-Alfonso is a staff writer to The Federalist and the co-founder of the Chicago Thinker.<\/div>\n<div class=\"article-tags bdr-top-black mt-30 mt-sm-60 pt-15 pt-md-45\">\n<ul class=\"list-unstyled d-flex flex-wrap align-items-center mb-0 mx-n10 p-0\">\n<li class=\"mt-10 mx-10\"><a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/tag\/censorship\/\" class=\"btn btn-black btn-small\">censorship<\/a><\/li>\n<li class=\"mt-10 mx-10\"><a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/tag\/elon-musk\/\" class=\"btn btn-black btn-small\">Elon Musk<\/a><\/li>\n<li class=\"mt-10 mx-10\"><a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/tag\/free-speech\/\" class=\"btn btn-black btn-small\">free speech<\/a><\/li>\n<li class=\"mt-10 mx-10\"><a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/tag\/marjorie-taylor-greene\/\" class=\"btn btn-black btn-small\">Marjorie Taylor Greene<\/a><\/li>\n<li class=\"mt-10 mx-10\"><a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/tag\/media-research-center\/\" class=\"btn btn-black btn-small\">Media Research Center<\/a><\/li>\n<li class=\"mt-10 mx-10\"><a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/tag\/nashville\/\" class=\"btn btn-black btn-small\">Nashville<\/a><\/li>\n<li class=\"mt-10 mx-10\"><a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/tag\/nashville-shooting\/\" class=\"btn btn-black btn-small\">Nashville shooting<\/a><\/li>\n<li class=\"mt-10 mx-10\"><a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/tag\/school-shootings\/\" class=\"btn btn-black btn-small\">school shootings<\/a><\/li>\n<li class=\"mt-10 mx-10\"><a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/tag\/sean-davis\/\" class=\"btn btn-black btn-small\">Sean Davis<\/a><\/li>\n<li class=\"mt-10 mx-10\"><a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/tag\/trans-movement\/\" class=\"btn btn-black btn-small\">Trans Movement<\/a><\/li>\n<li class=\"mt-10 mx-10\"><a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/tag\/transgender\/\" class=\"btn btn-black btn-small\">transgender<\/a><\/li>\n<li class=\"mt-10 mx-10\"><a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/tag\/twitter\/\" class=\"btn btn-black btn-small\">Twitter<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Following the\u00a0Twitter censorship\u00a0of Federalist CEO Sean Davis, several journalists, and a sitting member of Congress who all reported on the \u201cTrans Day Of Vengeance\u201d after the Nashville Shooting, the Media Research Center (MRC) published a shocking study about \u201cfree speech\u201d on Twitter. 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