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by Kurt Nimmo, INFOWARS
Republican Markeece Young says the Hillary Clinton campaign paid Twitter to
squelch his hashtag, #WhyImNotVotingforHillary.
Although it is less than certain if this is the case, one thing is for sure
— the Clinton campaign shelled out a big chunk of change to get her hashtag
to trend on the uber popular microblogging social media site.
CNN anchor Brian Stetler highlighted the inability of the Clinton hashtag
to trend higher than Young’s.
“And it got worse. 2 hours later the most popular hashtags on Twitter were
#WhyImNotVotingForHillary — which mocked her campaign ad — and
#GameofThrones, with #Hillary2016 an embarrassing 3rd,” writes Gina Cassini
for Top Right News.
Twitter claims it does not censor tweets. “There’s no system expressly
designed to censor communication between individuals,” a former Twitter
engineer told The Verge in November.
Twitter, however, has blocked tweets it considers harassment, specially
along the lines of gender and race, but has yet to block or remove tweets
criticizing political candidates in the United States.
Twitter offers what it calls “promoted trends,” that is to say jacking up
hashtag trending status to partners who have the money.
“Promoted Trends are a perfect way to kickstart a conversation, launch new
products, run major campaigns or target key dates to drive mass awareness,”
the Twitter business website explains.
Hillary Clinton, of course, is not a brand of caffè latte. Artificial
trending skews the political debate and makes it appear she is more popular
than she actually is.
If a critic’s hashtag was indeed removed, this represents a dangerous
development in social media, which now plays an instrumental role in
political campaigns.
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WASHINGTON/NEW YORK/DES MOINES, Iowa (Reuters) - Hillary Clinton, under pressure from the left wing of her Democratic Party to aggressively campaign against income inequality, voiced concern about the hefty paychecks of some corporate executives in an email to supporters. Striking a populist note, Clinton, who announced on Sunday she was running for president in 2016, said American families were still facing financial hardship at a time "when the average CEO makes about 300 times what the average worker makes." In a tightly scripted campaign launch in which there were few surprises, the comments were unexpected, at least by progressives, who saw them as an early sign she may shift away from the centrist economic policies pursued by her husband, former President Bill Clinton. “I definitely see the push from the left wing, which I think is great,” said Jared Milrad, a Clinton supporter who appeared in a video launching her campaign for the presidency.
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I commanded a cavalry squadron, so my default tactic is to attack. And the increasingly desperate, fascistic flailing of the left as it seeks to hold onto power is a signal that its absolutely time to sound the trumpet.
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Masha Gessen explores what shaped Boston Marathon bombers.
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The Florida senator made a very strong case for his candidacy.
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As the Obama administration prepares for a new surge of illegal immigrant children this year, some of those from previous waves are turning up on court dockets across the country, charged with serious crimes such as capital murder and aggravated rape.
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How long will this country remain free? Probably only as long as the American people value their freedom enough to defend it. But how many people today can stop looking at their electronic devices long enough to even think about such things? Meanwhile,...
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The proliferation of renewable energy will never please environmentalists. In fact, the more efficient and inexpensive energies like solar and wind become, the more environmentalists will fear and eventually hate them.
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Hillary Clinton has hardly done anything since declaring her candidacy, and in fact she's going out of her way to stay out of the headlines. Today the media latched on to the tidbit that she had st...
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Hillary Clinton has announced that she is running for president of the United States. What her likely nomination says about the Democratic Party and tens of millions of Americans is depressing.
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There’s already plenty of bad punditry regarding the chances of Hillary Clinton -- who officially announced her candidacy on Sunday -- to become the 45th president. You can find Democrats boasting ...
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Dahbi, however, told the judge that the women were...
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Kathleen Wynne's radical sex-ed curriculum has concerned parents protesting. Yet according to Kathleen Wynne, these parents are 'homophobic'. That's right. A...
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Ferguson, Missouri held its first city election last week since the death of Michael Brown and the ensuing riots. Hands up! Despite all of the media attention and international press, only 19% of eligible voters from Brown's district turned out…
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A Wednesday "Good Morning America" piece gave President Barack Obama an open mic to claim that, in ABC's words, "climate change became a personal issue for him when his older daughter Malia, now 16, was rushed to the emergency room with an asthma attack when she was just a toddler." Somehow, ABC managed to avoid another possible contributor — besides the obvious possibility that Malia developed asthma independent of external influences — namely the President's 30-year smoking habit. He is said to have quit once and for all in 2011. USA Today columnist James S. Robbins wasn't impressed with the President's "reasoning," and with good cause, as he articulated in a Thursday evening column. He even managed to get a "there's been no warming for a long time" observation past USA Today's editors (links are in original; bolds are mine):
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Feminist academic Christina Hoff Sommers is attracting attention for speaking out against untruths in the gender equality debate, writes Peter Lloyd
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2012: To achieve his goals, "Obama must declare war on the Republican Party."
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Daily Mail Online spoke to ten students at the rural community Iowa college where Hillary Clinton will be Tuesday. One said 'I hope people don't vote for her just because she's a woman.'
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The federal government’s chief deportation agency has seen its success plummet under President Obama, and its chief, Sarah R. Saldana, will tell Congress on Tuesday that they’ve had trouble adapting to the changing face of illegal immigration and a lack of cooperation from both American cities and from foreign countries.
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The box office hit American Sniper was a rare movie. One we don't see too often nowadays. It showed America's heroes in a very real and very proud way. With no ...
