Worst Cen­sor­ship of July: Elec­tion Cen­sor­ship Heats Up

In the run up to what has already been a tumul­tuous elec­tion sea­son, Big Tech is still cen­sor­ing free speech online, inter­fer­ing in the 2024 elec­tion.

July was a month of major his­toric news, par­tic­u­lar­ly sur­round­ing the 2024 elec­tion. But Big Tech plat­forms were up to their usu­al cen­sor­ship tricks. Meta cen­sored an icon­ic image of Don­ald Trump pump­ing his fist after being shot, and Google Search sup­pressed infor­ma­tion about the attempt­ed assas­si­na­tion. X (for­mer­ly Twit­ter) cen­so …