The Tweet That Vanished, or Never Call Out Twitter on Their Shady Practices.

On the morning of June 1st, 2017 I noticed several people were active on social media regarding the confirmation of Sheriff David Clarke for Department of Homeland Security. As I looked into it, I was on twitter re-tweeting some posts and noticed that the #ConfirmClarke was not auto-compleeting and was not "trending", despite it's popularity.

https://www.hashtags.org/analytics/confirmclarke/

I wasn't the only one noticing the throttling, and some were even calling out the Democrats on their hypocricy of rejecting Republican Party minorities like Sheriff Clarke and Dr. Ben Carson.

After some re-tweets and some new tweets, I, with my massive 64 person audience, tweeted this out:

It was picked up and re-tweeted by 1 person and then twitter noticed it. Did it garner a rebuttal from twitter? Did it get proven false? Did it continue to grow in reach? If you thought any of these things, you haven't posted anything that goes against the regressive narrative on twitter before. The tweet vanished from my timeline. It vanished from the #Confirmclarke hashtag search. It even got purged from my mentions and the timeline of the user who re-tweeted it before it got quelched. It didn't get outright deleted and does still exist, for now, as a pinned tweet on my timeline.

What is the point of this story? Whether or not you agree with the politics of it, when you see certain views en mass on social media, you need to understand that you are living in a purposefully constructed echo chamber where certain dissenting opinions are being purged. You should be glad that places like Minds.com exist where the truth will not fall down a rabbit hole.