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Big Tech’s election night censorship shows why Trump should have embraced alternative tech

Free speech focused platforms are growing at record rates but Trump continues to rely on the Big Tech platforms that censor his speech.

In August, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg ominously stated that Facebook is "getting people ready for the fact that there's a high likelihood that it takes days or weeks to count this — and there's nothing wrong or illegitimate about that." He also warned that the platform would be introducing "new rules regarding premature claims of victory or other statements about the results."

Since that moment, Facebook and the other Big Tech companies have been grooming US voters to accept the unprecedented level of uncertainty that's now unfolding around the 2020 US presidential election results and normalized the notion that anyone who questions this uncertainty should be censored.

From election night, the Big Tech companies followed through on this election night narrative that they have been crafting for months by mass censoring President Trump and many other users who attempted to discuss and share their opinion on election developments.

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