https://variety.com/2021/digital/news/anti-conservative-bias-social-media-nyu-report-1234897746/ Internet platforms like Twitter, Facebook and YouTube are not systematically biased against conservatives or right-wing viewpoints in their content moderation practices, according to an analysis from NYU researchers. **According to the report released Monday, “False Accusation: The Unfounded Claim that Social Media Companies Censor Conservatives,” the allegation that social media companies engage in anti-conservative bias “is itself a form of disinformation: a falsehood with no reliable evidence to support it.”** ** “No trustworthy large-scale studies have determined that conservative content is being removed for ideological reasons,”** the NYU report says. “Even anecdotal evidence of supposed bias tends to crumble under close examination.” In fact, the report, produced by the *NYU Stern Center for Business and Human Rights,* **cited evidence that social media platforms have actually amplified right-leaning voices algorithmically to reach “unprecedented audiences,**” often **giving conservatives greater reach than liberal or nonpartisan content creators. ** The report analyzed data from multiple sources, including past reports like a *2020 study from Politico* and the *Institute for Strategic Dialogue and social-data analytics firms CrowdTangle and NewsWhip.* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Institute_for_Strategic_Dialogue https://www.isdglobal.org ( London .. they are foreigners ) https://www.isdglobal.org/what-we-do/areas-of-work/empowering-civil-society/ https://www.isdglobal.org/isd-publications/ https://www.isdglobal.org/what-we-do/areas-of-work/disinformation/ https://www.isdglobal.org/what-we-do/areas-of-work/strong-cities-network/ https://www.isdglobal.org/what-we-do/areas-of-work/campaign-toolkit-innovation-hub/ " ISD’s Innovation Hub is designed to connect and grow networks of credible voices online in order to scale-up counter-narrative creation and dissemination globally. The Innovation Hub is built around partnerships and collaborations, allowing the right expertise and tools to be applied appropriately across a spectrum of counter-narrative and counter-speech content." they call themselves experts , and based in LONDON Predictably, Trump lashed out against “political censorship” by tech platforms in his final YouTube video. But the **NYU researchers said ****there’s simply nothing to suggest Big Tech has a pattern of disproportionately penalizing conservatives.** This is the report https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5b6df958f8370af3217d4178/t/60187b5f45762e708708c8e9/1612217185240/NYU+False+Accusation_2.pdf ATTEN : Autists and Bakers several names for your lists if they are not already there > PAUL M. BARRETT AND J. GRANT SIMS and , Acknowledgments We thank the following people for their time and insight: Sarah Brandt of NewsGuard, Sam Clark of Transparency Tube, Renée DiResta of the Stanford Internet Observatory, Eric Effron of NewsGuard, Dipayan Ghosh of the Digital Platforms and Democracy Project at Harvard Kennedy School’s Shorenstein Center, Eric Goldman of Santa Clara University School of Law, Jennifer Grygiel of Syracuse University, Jess Hemerly of Google, Justin Hendrix of Tech Policy Press, Mark Ledwich of Transparency Tube, Filippo Menczer of Indiana University, Benedict Nicholson of NewsWhip, James Pethokoukis of the American Enterprise Institute, Matt Perault of the Center on Science & Technology Policy at Duke University, Nick Pickles of Twitter, Neil Potts of Facebook, Naomi Shiffman of CrowdTangle/Facebook, Francesca Tripodi of the University of North Carolina. We extend special thanks to Craig Newmark and Craig Newmark Philanthropies for continued guidance and financial support. I can't stop laughing at the gobbled gook lies of theirs. > they actually believe we listen to them...