Dozens of members of the Free Speech Alliance sent a letter to Twitter owner Elon Musk requesting for him to meet with conservative leaders to discuss methods to promote free speech on the Big Tech platform following years of massive censorship. The Media Research Center's CensorTrack database has currently logged over 4,800 cases of censorship across a litany of Big Tech platforms, and cases from Twitter make up over 55 percent of that number. You can read the entire letter below.
Dear Mr. Musk,
We are so grateful for everything you are doing to defend and preserve free speech.
The great majority of Americans have long suspected that the social media platforms have been censoring speech, shadowbanning accounts and throttling posts. Despite the repeated denials by Twitter, Facebook and Google, we knew better. The proof was always on full display every time a person logged on to a social media account.
Twitter’s censorship, executed at the behest of various government entities, was illegal. We have repeatedly called out this illegal activity and demanded a full accounting of it. The day of reckoning is at hand.
The 100 members of the Free Speech Alliance applaud you for taking swift action to identify and expose your company’s previous hateful actions against people they disagreed with. Twitter’s recent disclosures have focused on well-known conservative figures, but Twitter’s greater sin was its actions directed at countless individual Americans across the country. Most of these victims work hard every day to provide for themselves and their families, and their identities are not well-known. We have their stories and we have the evidence.
There are thousands of documented cases of Twitter silencing Americans in CensorTrack.org, a database created and maintained by the Media Research Center, with the support of members of the Free Speech Alliance, to fight for everyday Americans whose free speech rights are under constant assault by Big Tech.
In fact, 55 percent of the total number of documented cases in CensorTrack (2,604 out of 4,748 cases) occurred at the hands of Twitter employees. While abuses at Google, YouTube, Facebook, Instagram and other platforms are extremely serious and must be rectified, Twitter’s direct efforts to muzzle dissenting voices exceeded all others combined.
Twitter must hear from these Americans, too.
We invite you to meet with the Free Speech Alliance so the new Twitter can better investigate and expose the extent of its harmful actions perpetrated against millions of people and make sure it never happens again. Justice cannot be achieved until every wrong is righted. The full scope of Twitter’s censorship must be made public. Every user who was shadowbanned or had their content limited in some manner must be made aware of how and when that censorship took place.
We recognize the efforts at transparency since you purchased the platform, but the only way to restore trust in Twitter is through radical transparency and user empowerment, which starts with exposing all past acts of censorship to the light of day. We look forward to working with you on this vital project.
Sincerely,
L. Brent Bozell III
Founder and President
Media Research Center
Saul Anuzis
President
American Association of Senior Citizens
Rachel Bovard
Conservative Partnership Institute
Ryan Bomberger
Co-founder & Chief Creative Officer
The Radiance Foundation
Floyd Brown
Founder
Western Journal
Lou Cordia
Cordia & Associates
Ed Corrigan
Conservative Partnership Institute
Hon. Kenneth "Ken" Cuccinelli, II
Former Acting Deputy Secretary, DHS
Former Attorney General of Virginia
Marjorie Dannenfelser
Susan B. Anthony Pro-Life America
Steven Ertelt
Editor
LifeNews.com
Kevin D. Freeman
Founder, NSIC Institute
Mark J. Fitzgibbons
President of Corporate Affairs
American Target Advertising Inc
Josh Hammer
Internet Accountability Project
Joseph M. Humire
Executive Director
Center for a Secure Free Society
Randy Long
Long Family Office
James Martin
Founder/Chairman
60 Plus Association
Jenny Beth Martin
Honorary Chairman
Tea Party Patriots Action
Christie-Lee McNally
Raven Strategies
President
Gene Mills
President
Louisiana Family Forum Office
Stephen Moore
Committee to Unleash Prosperity
Michael Morris
Director
MRC Free Speech America
Tony Perkins
President
Family Research Council
Dace Potas
President
Lone Conservative
Austin Ruse
President
Center for Family & Human Rights
Anne Schlafly Cori
Eagle Forum
Terry Schilling
President
American Principles Project
Dan Schneider
Vice President
Media Research Center
Jon Schweppe
Director of Policy
American Principles Project
Eunie Smith
President Emeritus
Eagle Forum
Grace-Marie Turner
Galen Institute
Lieutenant Colonel Allen B. West (U.S. Army, Retired)
Member, 112th U.S. Congress
Former Chairman, Republican Party of Texas
Ryan P. Williams
President, Claremont Institute
Publisher, Claremont Review of Books; The American Mind
Kris Ullman
President
Eagle Forum
Deborah Weiss
Attorney and Free Speech Advocate
