{"id":392037,"date":"2022-01-08T23:32:04","date_gmt":"2022-01-08T20:32:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/twitter-ceo-parag-agrawal-has-brought-wave-of-high-profile-bans\/"},"modified":"2022-01-08T23:32:04","modified_gmt":"2022-01-08T20:32:04","slug":"twitter-ceo-parag-agrawal-has-brought-wave-of-high-profile-bans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/twitter-ceo-parag-agrawal-has-brought-wave-of-high-profile-bans\/","title":{"rendered":"#Twitter CEO Parag Agrawal has brought wave of high-profile bans"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;<strong>#<a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/social-mediaa\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"1\" title=\"Social Media\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Twitter<\/a> CEO Parag Agrawal has brought wave of high-profile bans<\/strong>&#8221;<\/p>\n<div>\n<aside class=\"single__inline-module alignleft\">\n<\/aside>\n<p>The first few months of new Twitter CEO Parag Agrawal\u2019s tenure have validated fears his leadership would reduce free expression on the site, critics told The Post. <\/p>\n<p>Numerous high-profile accounts have been banned \u2014 including a sitting member of Congress and a virologist who helped invent mRNA vaccine <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/technology\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"4\" title=\"Technology\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">technology<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt does <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/download-scripts-themes-apps\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"9\" title=\"Download Scripts &amp; Themes &amp; Apps\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">app<\/a>ear that in the last month, particularly, Twitter has ramped up the censorship of people not just on the right, but people who go against the consensus,\u201d Dan Gainor, of the conservative watchdog Media Research Center, said.<\/p>\n<p>Since Agrawal took the reins, the site permabanned one of the accounts of Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) for allegedly violating its \u201cCOVID-19 misinformation policy.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFor Twitter to ban my account for what they perceive as COVID \u2018misinformation\u2019 is quite a concern, because the information I shared is actually from the CDC website,\u201d she posted on Gettr, a GOP-friendly Twitter competitor.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"683\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/01\/parag-agrawal-.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=683\" alt=\"Twitter CEO Parag Agrawal\" class=\"wp-image-20764360\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/01\/parag-agrawal-.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1366 1366w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/01\/parag-agrawal-.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all 1024w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/01\/parag-agrawal-.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=683 683w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/01\/parag-agrawal-.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=341 341w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 683px) 100vw, 683px\"\/><figcaption>Critics say that New Twitter CEO Parag Agrawal is stifling free speech on the site.  <\/figcaption><figcaption><span class=\"credit\">AP<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) slammed Twitter\u2019s move,  and suggested that if Big Tech companies censor constitutionally protected speech, effectively acting as publishers, it should lose the protection of Section 230 \u2014 federal law which immunizes platforms from liability for third-party content.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<div class=\"embed-wrapper twitter\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Twitter (all\u00a0big\u00a0tech), if you shut down constitutionally protected speech (not lewd and obscene) you should lose 230 protection. Acting as publisher and censorship regime should mean shutting down the business model you rely on today, and I will work to make that happen.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Kevin McCarthy (@GOPLeader) <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/GOPLeader\/status\/1478448444796772352?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">January 4, 2022<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<p>Twitter also <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/media\/dr-robert-malone-joe-rogan-covid-ingraham-twitter-ban-youtube-censorship\">permanently barred Dr. Robert Malone<\/a> \u2014 who has widely been credited with inventing the mRNA technology used in the Pfizer and Moderna COVID-19 immunizations \u2014 without identifying the offending content. Malone\u2019s posts had questioned the efficacy of COVID-19 vaccines.<\/p>\n<p>Another scientist, Prof. Michael Makris, who specialized in hemostasis and thrombosis at the University of Sheffield, had to delete a tweet on a new type of COVID-19 vaccine under development, or face a ban.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1024\" height=\"682\" src=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/01\/marjorie-taylor-greene.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1024\" alt=\"Marjorie Taylor Greene\" class=\"wp-image-20764431\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/01\/marjorie-taylor-greene.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1535 1536w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/01\/marjorie-taylor-greene.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all 1024w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/01\/marjorie-taylor-greene.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=512 512w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\"\/><figcaption>Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene was banned from Twitter, which has led to backlash against the app from the GOP.<\/figcaption><figcaption><span class=\"credit\">EPA<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<div class=\"embed-wrapper twitter\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">I am back on Twitter. Twitter blocked my account for &#8220;Spreading misleading and potentially harmful information about COVID19&#8221;. Judge for yourselves if the relevant tweet is so bad. 1\/3 <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/b1XodkPQ3I\">pic.twitter.com\/b1XodkPQ3I<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Michael Makris (@ProfMakris) <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ProfMakris\/status\/1474068222550884367?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">December 23, 2021<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<p>Just The <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/news\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"2\" title=\"News\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">News<\/a> founder John Solomon was <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/justthenews.com\/accountability\/cancel-culture\/twitter-suspends-just-news-founder-report-legal-distinctions-between\">suspended<\/a> for tweeting an article on the Food and Drug Administration\u2019s statement that the fully approved Comirnaty vaccine is \u201c<a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.fda.gov\/vaccines-blood-biologics\/qa-comirnaty-covid-19-vaccine-mrna\">legally distinct<\/a>\u201d from the emergency-approved Pfizer-BioNTech product, which is more widely available in the United States. <\/p>\n<p>Popular news aggregator Politics for All \u2014 founded by Spectator social media editor Nick Moar \u2014 was also <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2022\/jan\/04\/twitter-permanently-bans-news-aggregation-service-politics-for-all\">reportedly<\/a> banned for unspecified \u201cplatform manipulation.\u201d<\/p>\n<aside class=\"single__inline-module alignright\">\n    <\/aside>\n<p>Also booted from Twitter for good: <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/linktr.ee\/mysterygrove\">Mystery Grove Publishing Company<\/a>, a small press which publishes out-of-print books, such as the memoirs of the last White Russian commander in chief, <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/articles\/incompetence-afghanistan-war-biden-withdrawal-crisis-management-11630942877\">Pyotr Wrangel<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Thought-policing is \u201cmore overt\u201d under Agrawal than Twitter founder and ex-CEO Jack Dorsey, said Gainor, whose employer runs <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/censortrack.org\/\">censortrack.org<\/a>, which aggregates examples of online speech suppression.<\/p>\n<p>He also noted a new \u201ccross-functional working group\u201d <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/technology\/twitter-creates-monitoring-team-prepare-capitol-riot-anniversary-2022-01-05\/\">created<\/a> by Twitter to monitor and censor speech around the one-year anniversary of the Capitol riot. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cSounds pretty Orwellian,\u201d Arizona Senate candidate Blake Masters told The Post. \u201cThey don\u2019t want people on the right side of the political aisle to be discussing January 6th.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Masters, <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/bgmasters\">an active Twitter user<\/a>, said he has noticed an \u201cuptick\u201d in high-profile bans, as well as several indiscriminate mass account \u201cpurges.\u201d<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1024\" height=\"682\" src=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/01\/jack-dorsey.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1024\" alt=\"Jack Dorsey\" class=\"wp-image-20764487\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/01\/jack-dorsey.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1535 1536w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/01\/jack-dorsey.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all 1024w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/01\/jack-dorsey.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=512 512w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\"\/><figcaption>Critics say that New Twitter CEO Parag Agrawal has censored things more than former boss Jack Dorsey (above). <\/figcaption><figcaption><span class=\"credit\">AFP via Getty Images<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>\u201cDorsey was at least relatively better than this new guy,\u201d he said. <\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, former New York Times reporter and lockdown skeptic Alex Berenson has sued the $32 billion tech company over his ban in August 2020, alleging that Twitter may have banned him acting \u201con behalf of the federal government.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201c[T]he extraordinarily close nexus between the July 2021 statements by senior executive branch officials \u2014 including President Biden himself \u2014 calling for censorship by such companies and Twitter\u2019s corresponding immediate actions against Mr. Berenson mean that this issue merits closer scrutiny,\u201d his complaint, filed in California federal court on Dec. 20, said.<\/p>\n<p>Twitter did not return a 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