Conservatives threaten to boycott LinkedIn after post was removed
“@DHSgov is carrying out the essential mission of keeping our country safe,” the State Freedom Caucus posted on January 27 on multiple platforms including X and LinkedIn.
“Biden has allowed more than 10 million illegal aliens into our states, many of them violent criminals and child molesters. Every state must ensure cooperation with ICE and CBP to remove them. Our frontline caucuses are leading their states in supporting the @POTUS mission to keep Americans safe!”
On Thursday, SFCN Screenshot revealed It shows that even though X allowed the post, it was flagged as “hate speech” by LinkedIn and removed.
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“Protecting children is clearly hate, but allowing actual predators to roam free is a good thing,” SFCN wrote. “@elonmusk doesn’t censor us, but @LinkedIn does! We will be deleting our account as a result.”
Conservatives Social media He quickly began criticizing the social media company, which was co-founded by major liberal donor Reed Hoffman before he sold the company to Microsoft, where he currently serves on the board of directors.
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“Everyone is deleting LinkedIn,” Townhall columnist Dustin Grage Published on X. “Just a rubbish wake-up platform that offers little value.”
“How is removing people from the streets hateful?? Why are you censoring conservatives?? @LinkedIn,” conservative influencer account LibsofTikTok Published on X. “Delete your LinkedIn account.”
A LinkedIn spokesperson responded, telling Fox News Digital: “This was removed in error, and we quickly corrected it.”
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Andrew Roth, president of the State Freedom Caucus Network, told Fox News Digital that he received a “takedown notice” via email and after posting the situation on LibsofTikTok, he received another email saying the takedown was an error.
“Initially, your post was removed because it went against our policies,” Roth said via LinkedIn. “As part of our review, we have now found that your post does not violate our policies and we apologize for the error.”
“Yes, right,” Roth told Fox News Digital.
“I think Wikiism is still alive and well, but we will continue to fight it. The first step is to never participate on LinkedIn again. The second step is to tell the world what they did.”
Conservatives have long decried the censorship and perceived bias on social media platforms, and although the post was reinstated within a few hours of it being taken down, Daniel Cochrane, a senior fellow at the Heritage Foundation’s Center for Technology and Humanity, told Fox News Digital that the situation represents the “predictable model” under which big tech platforms often operate.
“Censor first and ask for forgiveness later,” Cochrane said.
“While platforms always claim error or miscommunication, their content moderation systems and processes operate in a black box,” Cochrane added. “The opaque nature of these systems results in a dearth of accountability.”
Cochrane went on to say that even if platforms aren’t “explicitly targeting” a particular group or message, “liberal biases” are often “hidden in their algorithmic moderation systems, resulting in conservative voices being disproportionately singled out and demoted.”
“Without greater accountability, the status quo of arbitrary censorship is a feature of big tech platforms, not a bug.”
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