【英文】美国传统基金会报告：与大科技公司极权主义作斗争：路线图（36页）

英文研究报告 2022年02月25日 07:45 管理员

Information Manipulation. A handful of Big Tech corporations now manipulate the fow of information in such an expansive way as to fundamentally reshape the public discourse. The past year demonstrated that suppression of conservative viewpoints by technology companies can materially impact the body politic.2 For example, tech corporations actively insert themselves between “the user and content” in increasingly ideological ways.3 l An October 2021 poll by research frm McLaughlin and Associates found that 52 percent of Americans believe Facebook, Twitter, and other social media sites’ censorship of the New York Post’s Hunter Biden story constituted interference in the election.

A November 2020 study by the Media Research Center (MRC) found that one in six Biden voters claimed they would have changed their vote had they been aware of information such as the Hunter Biden laptop story that was actively suppressed by tech companies.5 l More than 17 platforms muzzled the then-sitting President of the United States within two weeks in January 2021. At the same time, three tech companies acted in concert (within approximately 48 hours of each other) to eliminate a conservative-friendly competitor as it sat atop the Apple store.6 l In July 2021, a consortium of companies and organizations revealed plans to expand an industry-wide terrorism database to include “rightwing” content.