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Art Moore
\nWND.com<\/p>\n
The recent wave of censorship of conservative voices on the internet by tech giants Facebook, Twitter, YouTube and Apple mirrors a plan concocted by a coalition of George Soros-funded, progressive groups to take back power in Washington from President Trump\u2019s administration.<\/p>\n
A\u00a0confidential, 49-page memo for defeating Trump<\/a>\u00a0by working with the major social-media platforms to eliminate \u201cright wing propaganda and fake news\u201d was presented in January 2017\u00a0 by Media Matters founder David Brock\u00a0at a retreat in Florida with about\u00a0100 donors,\u00a0the Washington Free Beacon reported at the time<\/a>.<\/p>\n On Monday, the Gateway Pundit blog noted<\/a>\u00a0the memo\u2019s relationship with recent moves by Silicon Valley tech giants\u00a0to \u201cshadow ban\u201d\u00a0conservative political candidates and pundits\u00a0and\u00a0remove content.<\/p>\n The Free Beacon obtained a copy of the memo,\u00a0\u201cDemocracy Matters: Strategic Plan for Action,\u201d<\/a>\u00a0by attending the retreat.<\/p>\n The memo spells out a four-year agenda that deployed Media Matters along with American Bridge, Shareblue and Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington (CREW) to attack Trump and Republicans.<\/p>\n The\u00a0strategies are impeachment, expanding Media Matters\u2019 mission to combat \u201cgovernment misinformation,\u201d ensuring Democratic control of the Senate in the 2018 midterm elections, filing lawsuits against the Trump administration, monetizing political advocacy, using a \u201cdigital attacker\u201d to delegitimize Trump\u2019s presidency and damage Republicans, and partnering with Facebook to combat \u201cfake news.\u201d<\/p>\n Quashing \u2018fake news\u2019 with \u2018mathematical precision\u2019<\/strong><\/p>\n The Free Beacon in its January 2017 story said Brock sought to raise $40 million in 2017 for his organizations.<\/p>\n The document claims Media Matters and far-left groups have \u201caccess to raw data from Facebook, Twitter, and other social media sites\u201d so they can \u201csystemically monitor and analyze this unfiltered data.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cThe earlier we can identify a fake news story, the more effectively we can quash it,\u201d the memo states. \u201cWith this new technology at our fingertips, researchers monitoring news in real time will be able to identify the origins of a lie with mathematical precision, creating an early warning system for fake news and disinformation.\u201d<\/p>\n Media Matters met with Facebook, which boasts some 2 billion members worldwide, to discuss how to crack down on fake news, according to the memo.<\/p>\n The\u00a0social media giant\u00a0was provided with \u201ca detailed map of the constellation of right-wing Facebook pages that had been the biggest purveyors of fake news.\u201d<\/p>\n Brock\u2019s memo also says Media Matters\u00a0gave Google \u201cthe information necessary to identify 40 of the worst fake new sites\u201d so they could be banned from Google\u2019s advertising network.<\/p>\n The Gateway Pundit pointed out that in 2016, Google carried out that plan on the Gateway Pundit blog and other conservative sites, including\u00a0Breitbart, the Drudge Report, Infowars, Zero Hedge and Conservative Treehouse.<\/p>\n Facebook, meanwhile has changed its newsfeed algorithm, ostensibly to combat \u201cfake news,\u201d causing a precipitous decline in traffic for many conservative sites.<\/p>\n President Donald Trump himself was affected, with his engagement on Facebook dropping by 45 percent.<\/p>\n A study in June by Gateway Pundit found Facebook had eliminated 93 percent of the traffic of top conservative news outlets.<\/p>\n Western Journal, in its own study<\/a>,\u00a0found that while left-wing publishers saw a roughly 2 percent increase in web traffic from Facebook following the algorithm changes, conservative sites saw a loss of traffic averaging around 14 percent.<\/p>\n \u2018Totalitarian impulse\u2019 of the left<\/b><\/p>\n President Trump\u2019s 2020 campaign manager, Brad Parscale, charged last week<\/a>\u00a0the giants of Silicon Valley are stifling free speech, particularly conservative speech, manifesting the \u201cinherent totalitarian impulse\u201d of the left.<\/p>\n On Friday,\u00a0Facebook appeared to be \u201cshadow banning\u201d the non-profit education site PragerU<\/a>, founded by talk-host Dennis Prager, causing a drop in engagement of 99.9999 percent while removing two videos regarded as \u201chate speech.\u201d<\/p>\n After Facebook\u00a0rejected a highly inspirational ad for a Republican congressional candidate<\/a>\u00a0that included images depicting her parents\u2019 persecution under the Khmer Rouge communist regime in Cambodia,\u00a0Twitter followed up with its own ban<\/a>.<\/p>\n WND reported earlier this month<\/a>\u00a0Facebook banned a pro-life video ad by a judicial candidate, giving the same explanation.<\/p>\n On Aug. 6,\u00a0 WND reported<\/a>, Facebook, YouTube and Apple banned commentator Alex Jones and his Infowars website within hours of each other.<\/p>\n