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LOL. Just the other day, Elizabeth Warren, a US senator, pushed a conspiracy that Stacy Abrams won the Georgia gubernatorial election three years ago. This would've gotten anyone banned from Facebook or Twitter if it was a different "side." To the extent a Facebook crackdown would mostly impact the right, it's because the loony-left is now completely mainstream and doesn't need Facebook. The crazies on the right have basically Fox and that's it, yawn.

Feel free to look at Twitter's trending topics. Any topic, and I mean literally ANY topic of some political nature, if you click on it, will take you to nothing but people shitting on anything conservative while praising anything liberal. It's all it is.

There's no balance ANYWHERE. Everything has been weaponized.

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Is this a result of influence from YouTube or a result of the relative popularity of the videos?

Yep. Every time I even Google/Youtube some right winger person I just get articles/videos from leftist sources. I want to hear their views and all I get are Jon Oliver clips.

I'm a super centrist. Anyone who is on the left has no clue of the censorship going on. I have to use Google-Fu to find anything of substance on the right.

Couldn't you just open Fox News, Breitbart, OANN, or any of the other easily available, popular right-wing sites? Or how about the National Review, Daily Caller, or WSJ Opinion section?

Please show us an example of one single search where you can't find an expected right-leaning perspective in the results.

On my first attempt I proved what I said above.

http://imgur.com/a/U2oHejz

I went to YouTube, typed "Tucker Carlson" and got a Jimmy Kimmel video as my first result.

I am genuinely curious if anyone can explain that.

I also had to scroll down 8 results before an actual Tucker Carlson video appeared.

I can't reproduce that result.

I just opened an incognito in Chrome and searched for Tucker Carlson[1]. Most of my results were from Fox News, almost all were from Carlson's show. John Oliver is 10 results down[2].

1. https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=tucker+carlson

2. https://imgur.com/a/Iaj5V4s

I think it's due to location. When I VPN to the US I get your results, but from Canada I get the parent comment's results.

I am super centrist also, and all it's done is make me angrier and angrier at the state of things. I guess it's pushing me more libertarian watching all this insanity. The craziest thing is that R's and D's have basically flipped entirely on most major issues over the last few decades.

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