Science Proves Conservatives Deserve Censorship

If anything could be impervious to corruption by moonbattery, it would be science, the purpose of which is to understand objective reality. Yet we read the following in Phys.org:

A new paper, “Differences in misinformation sharing can lead to politically asymmetric sanctions,” published [Wednesday] in Nature suggests that the higher quantity of social media policy enforcement (such as account suspensions) for conservative users could be explained by the higher quantity of misinformation shared by those conservative users—and so does not constitute evidence of inherent biases in the policies from social media companies or in the definition of what constitutes misinformation.

Given that the research was published in Nature and conducted by Experts from MIT, University of Oxford, and Ivy League Cornell and Yale, it should at least pass the laugh test. Let’s see if it does.

Social media users were defined by whether they shared certain hashtags:

Accounts that had shared #Trump2020 before the election were 4.4 times more likely to have been subsequently suspended than those who shared #VoteBidenHarris2020.

No surprise there, considering that Elon Musk didn’t restore free speech to formerly infamously partisan Twitter before taking it over in 2022.

[The researchers] used a set of 60 news domains (the 20 highest volume sites within the categories of mainstream, hyper-partisan and fake news), and collected trustworthiness ratings for each domain from eight professional fact-checkers.

Well-known examples of fact-checkers are Snopes, PolitiFact, and the belligerently partisan propagandists posing as moderators in the Trump/Harris and Vance/Walz debates. You can trust fact-checkers, because they speak for the liberal establishment, which defines truth.

The prestigious researchers found that thought criminals who…

…used Trump hashtags shared four times more links to low-quality news outlets than those who used Biden hashtags.

It can be assumed that a “low-quality” outlet is one that does not bear a seal of approval from the liberal establishment.

Drones Expert David G. Rand of MIT:

“The fact that the social media accounts of conservatives are suspended more than those of liberals is therefore not evidence of bias on the part of tech companies, and shouldn’t be used to pressure tech companies to abandon policies meant to reduce the sharing of misinformation.”

The liberal establishment doesn’t censor conservatives because they are conservative, but because they say things that are not true. We know the things conservatives say are not true because they have not been endorsed by the liberal establishment. The Science has spoken.

On tips from Lyle and Bluto.

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