In a recent one-year anniversary celebration of what NPR host Alisa Chang called “The great de-platforming,” she discussed where various Trump supporters have gone after they were banned from Facebook and Twitter following Jan. 6.
At one point, Jared Holt said, “These smaller groups of extremists are, you know, showing up to lower level, you know, government institutions, like city councils or school boards, and participating in these kind of culture-war causes of the day.”
NPR tech correspondent Shannon Bond agreed and suggested, “They’re joining other groups in protests against vaccine and masking rules and over how public schools teach kids about race. This local focus doesn’t require a big network to have an impact.”
Those statements came after Bond noted that those who were de-platformed “turned to encrypted messaging on Telegram, YouTube alternatives DLive and Rumble and social media sites like Parler, Gab and GETTR that claim to allow users to post things that would get them in trouble on Facebook or Twitter.”
“Some right-wing figures, like conspiracy theorist and pillow company CEO Mike Lindell, have even launched their own platforms,” Bond added.
Holt has made a living smearing those who oppose the left and runs “Right Wing Watch” which calls itself “A project of People For the American Way that monitors and exposes the activities of Radical Right political organizations.”
As the New York Post reported in November, parents hailed Republican Glenn Youngkin’s defeat of Democrat Terry McAuliffe in the Virginia gubernatorial race as a victory for their “parental rights in education.”
It seems that publications like NPR are trying their best to discredit those who helped galvanize Youngkin to victory.
Fox News’ Tucker Carlson recently did a segment on NPR highlighting how they are facing a reckoning with how their outlet mainly caters to white liberals.
Carlson pointed out that their viewership consists of more white people than Fox News, which he didn’t have a problem with, and that “the revolution always eats itself.”
This segment from @TuckerCarlson on @NPR is hilarious. NPR has gotten so woke they are destroying themselves. As Tucker says "the revolution always eats itself." pic.twitter.com/0rExx35ouZ
— Kevin Tober (@KevinTober94) January 8, 2022
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