In 2012, the general manager at Twitter UK, Tony Wang, famously described the company as the "free speech wing of the free speech party" - a motto that was repeated by then Twitter CEO Dick Costello in 2013.
In the years since its executives made those statements, Twitter has ramped up its censorship and current CEO Jack Dorsey has attempted to distance the company from this free speech stance by claiming in 2018 that the free speech motto was a "joke" and "never a mission of the company."
Now, in 2020, the rampant censorship on Twitter and other social media platforms has become so far removed from this free speech motto, that even censoring the President of the United States (US) has become normalized with President Trump having several of his statements obstructed and hidden by these tech giants.
This happened through a gradual but consistent shifting of the Overton window between 2016 and 2020 that was fueled by bias within Big Tech companies and mainstream media outlets.
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