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So, we have this meeting described in the previous posting. Let’s dive a little deeper:
Media Matters was at the meeting if not running the show.
The organization was formed in 2004 and is targeted at silencing what they term as ‘conservative misinformation’ (or any conservative opinion.) As noted in wikipedia, the organization is engaged in a war on Fox News.
In the Media Matters portion of the document, it mentions they “secured access to raw data from Facebook, Twitter, and other social media sites.” Their plan is “to develop technologies and processes to systematically monitor and analyze this unfiltered data.” “The earlier we identify a fake news story, the more effectively we can quash it.”
Here are some more:
“Serial misinformers and right-wing propagandists inhabiting everything from social media to the highest levels of government will be exposed.”
“Internet and social media platforms, like Google and Facebook, will no longer uncritically and without consequence host and enrich fake news sites and propagandists.”
“Toxic alt-right social media-fueled harassment campaigns that silence dissent and poison our national discourse will be punished and halted.”
Although our Bill of Rights promises the freedom of speech, Media Matters considers itself the judge of what speech should be allowed. Nestled in the pages of the handout from the meeting are examples of how they took away Donald Trump’s phone interview privileges on numerous cable news channels because he was getting too much publicity, or removing Roger Stone from appearing on cable news, or pulling Glenn Beck off of cable news or ‘holding 60 Minutes accountable for its faulty Benghazi reporting.’
Has any portion of their plan come to fruition or is it not a conspiracy?
First, this information came from a “Private & Confidential” document, so by definition 2 of the word ‘conspiracy’, Media Matters engaged in a surreptitious plan formulated in secret by two or more persons for a secret purpose.
2. an evil, unlawful, treacherous, or surreptitious plan formulated in secret by two or more persons; plot.
Has there been any evidence conservative voices have been silenced?
Yes, and ignoring the banning of conservatives on social media platforms for “violating community standards” is an unhelpful excuse. Facebook labeled the Declaration of Independence as ‘hate speech’, Twitter and Facebook have banned people for life due to their thoughts and ideas.
So, it can be shown Media Matters engaged in a not-so-successful conspiracy to silence conservative voices.
Next we look at American Bridge, “The political research engine of the opposition.”