Republican presidential candidate Vivek Ramaswamy called out LinkedIn for locking his account over posts slamming President Biden's policies on China and climate change.
Fox News contributor Mollie Hemingway says social media censorship is a ‘problem’ in U.S. elections and says Republican 2024 candidates must ‘fight the culture war.’flatly rejected LinkedIn's claim that his account was locked"in error" this week, in another clash between a conservative politician and Big Tech.
The Microsoft-owned company told various news outlets,"We don’t tolerate misinformation, hate speech, violence or any form of abuse on our platform. We understand that this might not be the response you wanted, but we work to apply our policies in a fair and consistent way for all of our members… The account was restricted in error, and it’s now back up."
"Funny how they now say it was in ‘error’ after they repeatedly doubled down on his violation of their policy as ‘misinformation,’ ‘hate speech’ and 'violence.' We have the receipts," she added. In response to multiple inquiries, a spokesperson for LinkedIn told Fox News Digital,"As we’ve said, we made an error and restored the account" but declined to elaborate further. Ramaswamy went viral on Thursday with a video outlining what had transpired.
He also shared screenshots of communications between his team and LinkedIn which showed that he would only be granted access to his account if he agreed to"abide by LinkedIn's terms and not to violate them again." He continued,"These aren't really the actions of private companies. These are so-called privately held companies or publicly traded private companies that are doing the work of the government through the backdoor, silencing speech that the government would never dare censor, could never censor under the Constitution but use the backdoor of tech companies to get it done instead.
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