{"id":2029800,"date":"2023-09-12T19:34:01","date_gmt":"2023-09-12T23:34:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/musk-shows-nyt-what-its-like-to-be-censored-nukes-traffic-to-left-leaning-pub\/"},"modified":"2023-09-12T19:37:46","modified_gmt":"2023-09-12T23:37:46","slug":"musk-shows-nyt-what-its-like-to-be-censored-nukes-traffic-to-left-leaning-pub","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/musk-shows-nyt-what-its-like-to-be-censored-nukes-traffic-to-left-leaning-pub\/","title":{"rendered":"Musk reveals censorship, disrupts traffic to left-leaning publication."},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">16<\/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%2Fmusk-shows-nyt-what-its-like-to-be-censored-nukes-traffic-to-left-leaning-pub%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=2029800&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--><h2>Elon Musk Throttles Traffic\u2063 to \u200cThe\u200c New York \u2062Times on X<\/h2>\n<p>Elon Musk \u2014 the owner of X, formerly Twitter\u2064 \u2014 appears to be giving The New York Times a \u200btaste of what <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/snopes-posts-bogus-pro-aoc-fact-check-ends-up-exposing-its-left-wing-bias\/\" title=\"Snopes Posts Bogus Pro-AOC \u2018Fact Check,\u2019 Ends Up Exposing Its Left-Wing Bias\">conservative news outlets<\/a> have experienced on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/senate-democrats-celebrate-medicare-anniversary-with-attacks-on-republicans\/\" title=\"Senate Democrats mark Medicare anniversary by criticizing Republicans.\">social media\u200b platforms<\/a> for\u2063 years: \u2063a throttling \u200cof traffic to the site.<\/p>\n<p>According to a report by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.semafor.com\/article\/09\/10\/2023\/twitter-appears-to-throttle-new-york-times\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Semafor<\/a>, engagement on X posts\u2063 linking to the New York Times has dropped dramatically since late July.<\/p>\n<p>The drop in shares and other engagement on tweets with Times links is abrupt,\u200d and is not reflected in \u2064links to similar news organizations \u200dincluding CNN, the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/wapo-columnist-storms-off-confronted-evidence-biden-knew-participated-sons-shady-business-deals\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Washington Post<\/a>, and the BBC, according to NewsWhip\u2019s data\u200b on 300,000 influential\u2062 users of X.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, the Times\u2019 engagement on Facebook remained consistent compared to other outlets.<\/p>\n<p>NewsWhip spokesman Benedict\u2064 Nicholson told Semafor that\u200b there\u2064 was a drop off in engagement for NYT compared to the other sites in \u200blate July\/early August.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">SCOOP: X, Elon Musk\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/zuckerbergs-attempt-to-take-down-musks-twitter-is-tanking-further-and-further-each-day-data-shows\/\" title=\"Zuckerberg's bid to defeat Musk on Twitter is failing more each day, data reveals.\">social \u2063media platform<\/a> formerly known as Twitter, appears to be attempting to limit its users\u2019 access\u2063 to The New York Times, <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/maxwelltani?\">@maxwelltani<\/a> reports.<a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/hVkF3x5L15\">https:\/\/t.co\/hVkF3x5L15<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Semafor (@semafor) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/semafor\/status\/1701027799492973046?\">September 11, 2023<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>The outlet offered as an example that former President Barack Obama shared two\u200b Times articles on X about healthcare costs, which <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/2000-mules-the-biggest-political-documentary-in-a-decade\/\" title=\"\u201c2000 Mules\u201d the Biggest Political Documentary in a Decade\">reached 1 million<\/a> and fewer than 800,000 users respectively.<\/p>\n<p>By \u200dcomparison,\u2062 a Politico article Obama shared about him taking the lead in the Democrats\u2019 push for election redistricting reached 13 million \u2064views.<\/p>\n<p>Semafor\u2019s Max Tani \u200bbelieves that X has singled out the Times for some reason.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt wouldn\u2019t\u200c be the first time that the platform\u200d has focused \u2062on the Times since Musk took over,\u201d he\u200d noted. \u201cTwitter briefly suspended Times tech reporter Ryan Mac last year.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cEarlier this summer, X briefly imposed a\u200b several second delay on traffic\u200b from Twitter to links to the Times, Reuters and social \u2064media rivals including Facebook and Instagram,\u201d Tani added.<\/p>\n<p>Musk\u200b tweeted in April, \u201cThe real tragedy of @NYTimes is that their propaganda isn\u2019t even interesting.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAlso, their feed is\u200c the \u200cTwitter equivalent of \u2062diarrhea. It\u2019s unreadable.\u200b They\u2064 would have far more real \u200cfollowers if they only posted their top articles.\u200b Same \u200bapplies to all publications,\u201d\u200d he added.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Also, their feed is the Twitter equivalent of diarrhea. \u2062It\u2019s unreadable.<\/p>\n<p>They would have far more real\u200b followers if they only posted their top articles.<\/p>\n<p>Same applies to all publications.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014\u2063 Elon Musk (@elonmusk) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/elonmusk\/status\/1642402646836297729?\">April 2, 2023<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Musk also \u200dhammered the Times last\u200d month for what he characterized as supporting genocide \u200bin his native <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/nightmare-south-africa-us-embassy-warns-americans-ready-power-grid-collapses-civil-unrest\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">South Africa<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf ever\u2064 there was a \u200btime to cancel that publication, it is now,\u201d he posted.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">The New York \u2063Times actually has the \u200cnerve to support calls for genocide! If ever there was a time to cancel that publication, it is now.<\/p>\n<p>You can read their\u200b articles for \u200cfree anyway \u200dusing <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/2NjvMTsWmj\">https:\/\/t.co\/2NjvMTsWmj<\/a>. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/ow11wxw7Ny\">pic.twitter.com\/ow11wxw7Ny<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Elon Musk (@elonmusk) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/elonmusk\/status\/1687520435825745920?\">August 4, 2023<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Musk also <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/elonmusk\/status\/1692560234739327300\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">described<\/a> the Times \u2062as \u201ca declining, once-powerful, but fundamentally doomed to be <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/musk-shows-nyt-what-its-like-to-be-censored-nukes-traffic-to-left-leaning-pub\/\" title=\"Musk reveals censorship, disrupts traffic to left-leaning publication.\">regional &#038; increasingly archaic legacy \u2064publication<\/a>.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>If the\u2063 outlet is being throttled by X, the Times is only experiencing\u2064 what conservatives endured from Facebook and Twitter for years.<\/p>\n<p>The Western Journal conducted an <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/confirmed-facebooks-recent-algorithm-change-is-crushing-conservative-voices-boosting-liberals\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">original study<\/a> in 2018 following Facebook\u2019s \u200b\u201ctrusted sources\u201d \u2062algorithm change. The study was <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/rep-andy-biggs-cites-western-journal-during-congressional-hearing-on-social-media-censorship\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">cited <\/a>in a congressional hearing on the subject in April 2018.<\/p>\n<p>The 12 most conservative \u2063sites lost over a quarter\u2064 of their traffic from Facebook, while CNN\u2019s shot up 43 percent.<\/p>\n<p>In January 2018, prior to the algorithm change, The Western Journal ranked fourth \u2064among the most-engaged news sites on Facebook just behind \u200dthe Times, while\u200d Fox News was No. 1, according to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newswhip.com\/2018\/02\/top-facebook-sites-january-2018\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Newswhip<\/a>.\u200c CNN wasn\u2019t even in the top 10.<\/p>\n<p>By March 2018, following the \u200bchange, CNN <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newswhip.com\/2018\/04\/facebook-engagements-march-2018\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">sat atop<\/a> the list of publishers, while the Times ranked fourth and Fox was the \u2064only remaining conservative site in the top 10.<\/p>\n<p>In March of this year, Fox News was the \u2064 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newswhip.com\/2023\/04\/the-top-publishers-on-facebook-in-march-2023\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">only conservative publisher<\/a> in the top 10.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/opinion\/technology\/3273956-musk-says-twitter-is-biased-against-conservatives-facts-say-otherwise\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The Hill<\/a> report in April 2022, prior to Musk\u2019s purchase \u200bof Twitter, a study conducted\u200d by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Yale and the University of Exeter found that Twitter \u200dsuspended Republican users far more frequently than Democrats.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe researchers identified 9,000 politically engaged\u200c Twitter users in \u2062October 2020,\u2063 half Democratic and half\u2062 Republican. They tracked the sample for seven months after\u2063 the November \u200c2020 election,\u201d The Hill noted.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDuring that period, Twitter suspended 7.7 percent of the Democrats. In contrast, the platform suspended 35.6 percent of the Republicans \u2014 a more-than-fourfold \u2063difference,\u201d the news outlet said, noting that Twitter often suspended the accounts \u200dfor spreading\u200b \u201cmisinformation.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The post <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/musk-shows-nyt-like-censored-nukes-traffic-left-leaning-pub\/\">Musk Shows NYT What It&#8217;s Like to Be Censored, Nukes Traffic to Left-Leaning Pub<\/a> appeared first on <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\">The Western Journal<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>significantly, with a noticeable decrease in traffic. This move by Musk seems to mirror the long-standing issue faced by conservative news sources on social media platforms. The New York Times is now experiencing firsthand the impact of reduced visibility and engagement, which has been a concern for others in the past.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":662,"featured_media":2029801,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[548],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2029800","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-conservative-news-daily"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2029800","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/662"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2029800"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2029800\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2029801"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2029800"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2029800"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2029800"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}