Now, White House advisor Scott Atlas, who is a major player on the coronavirus task force, has been banned from Twitter for sharing an inconvenient truth. You see, he dared to suggest that masks are not magical strips of cloth that forever protect one from all ailments, but rather they should be used in ways that actually have some scientific backing.

Atlas had also tweeted out links to various studies backing his point, including the most recent guidance from the all knowing WHO, an organization that Twitter claims as authoritative when it meets their narrative.

The Senator asked:

• How did Twitter determine that the New York Post story was a violation of its policy governing the distribution of hacked materials or approach to blocking links? Will Twitter make its decision-making process with regard to this case of content removal publicly available?
• How did Twitter find that the New York Post was “directly” distributing hacked materials – and thus in violation of its policy – when it is not clear that this is the case?
• Why did Twitter take additional, unprecedented action to lock the primary Twitter account of the New York Post, one of the nation’s most widely-distributed newspapers?
• If you have evidence that this news story contains “disinformation” or have otherwise determined that there are inaccuracies with the reporting, will you disclose them to the public so that they can assess your findings?
• Did any member of the Biden-Harris presidential campaign team or any person representing themselves as a representative of the campaign’s interests ask, encourage, or direct Twitter to suppress the New York Post story?

Josh Hawley
@HawleyMO
My letter to the FEC re ⁦@Twitter⁩ ⁦@Facebook⁩ potential violation of federal election law //

This conduct does not merely censor the core political speech of ordinary Americans, though it certainly does that. Twitter’s and Facebook’s conduct also appears to constitute a clear violation of federal campaign-finance law. Federal law prohibits any corporation from making a contribution to a federal candidate for office. Twitter and Facebook are corporations. A contribution includes “anything of value…for influencing any election for Federal office.”

So, a link to an article in the NY Post — a publication founded in 1801 when Thomas Jefferson was President — is now “Unsafe” for Twitter users to read.

Now note the following:

Abigail Marone 🇺🇸
@abigailmarone
🚨📩 INBOX from @TeamTrump —>

Former Democrat operative turned Facebook official censoring journalism harmful to Biden //

There is a very interesting angle to these actions by Twitter and Facebook, as they come only one day after Justice Clarence Thomas issued a statement as part of a Denial of Cert by the Supreme Court, addressing the fact that the Court has yet to take a case involving issues under Sec. 230 of the Communications Decency Act. Senator Hawley covered Justice Thomas’ published statement in the clip above.

Sean Davis
@seanmdav
Under Twitter’s current policy, the terrorist Ayatollah of Iran can threaten genocide against the only Jewish country on earth, while the President of the United States of America is banned from linking to a story in an American newspaper founded by Alexander Hamilton in 1801.

Josh Hawley
@HawleyMO
.@Twitter @jack this is not nearly good enough. In fact, it’s a joke. It’s downright insulting. I will ask you - and @Facebook - to give an explanation UNDER OATH to the Senate subcommittee I chair. These are potential violations of election law, and that’s a crime.

Twitter suspended the Trump campaign’s account Thursday after the social media team posted a video that labeled Joe Biden a liar for his dishonesty about his knowledge of his son’s business dealings, which the New York Post revealed on Wednesday after obtaining a copy of one of Hunter Biden’s alleged hard drives.

“Twitter has suspended ⁦@TeamTrump for posting a video calling Joe Biden a liar who has been ripping off our country for years, as it relates to the ⁦@nypost article. 19 days out from the election,” wrote Mike Hahn, Director of Social Media for the Trump campaign.

God help us all

“Congressman Kelly Armstrong really got out of Google an admission that they’re not just interested in controlling all of the ad space as they do right now. They’re interested in driving others out of the ad market so that they have total control to demonetize sites as they deem fit,” Domenech said.

Last week, Newsbusters reported a number of conservative sites were temporarily blacklisted from Google’s search engine results, including the Washington Free Beacon, The Blaze, Townhall, The Daily Wire, PragerU, LifeNews, Project Veritas, Judicial Watch, The Resurgent, Breitbart, the Media Research Center, and CNSNews, among others.

Domenech said this is not just anecdotal, but there is data and traffic numbers to confirm that “from the outside, this looks like it was someone inside turning a knob, pulling a switch, that prevented these sites from having any kind of the organic traffic that they had already earned.”

Domenech noted that this move by Google “absolutely represents an attempt to influence the conversation during an election.”

"What we're really seeing here is the power that small groups have to weaponize these large internet entities against people that they don't like," he said. //

“Google in this case, I think embarrassed by the whole situation came up with the spin that it’s because of our comment section,” Domenech said. “That’s something that actually undercuts all of their arguments about Section 230, which Attorney General Barr addressed with Maria [Bartiromo] this weekend, in a way that I think clearly sets up a situation where that aspect of our law is going to be reformed.”

The failed attempt by NBC News to demonetize The Federalist puts to rest any idea that the legacy media cares about objectivity or free speech.

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Gov. Andrew Cuomo ordered removal of an ad campaign for 'Man In The High Castle,' an alt-history TV show about the dangers of fascism. //

The ad campaign had been approved by the Metropolitan Transit Authority, of course, but Amazon had agreed to pull the advertisements after pressure from government officials.

But you have to get to the very end of the Associated Press account to learn who actually “pulled” the ads from the subway. And for controversy about a show on the dangers of fascist totalitarianism, the answer may surprise you:

Officials confirmed Wednesday that Gov. Andrew Cuomo ordered them removed. //

But the story couldn’t be more interesting. Fascism is so bad that the ruling authority needs to decide what commercial speech is acceptable in public spaces? The governor ordering the ads pulled is exactly the kind of government control the show warns about.