Milo Yiannopoulos: Twitter Will Try To Sway The Presidential Election

[MikeWB]

PHILADELPHIA (CBS) — Associate Editor at Breitbart.com, Milo Yiannopoulos, alleged that Twitter is on the verge of collapse and will try to influence November's presidential election on behalf of the Democratic nominee.

Yiannopoulos, during an interview with Rich Zeoli on Talk Radio 1210 WPHT, claims that Twitter's management is obsessed with shutting down conservative ideas on the social media platform.


"There is absolutely no question that that is precisely what is directed at...It becomes very, very clear once you start looking at who is employed at Twitter. This guy used to work for Obama. This guy used to work for Hillary."

He believes the company is struggling and will make one last attempt to sway the election while it is still relevant.

"I think Twitter is gearing up to interfere in the election. Twitter, as a company, is dying. The share price is collapsing. They now have finally begun to admit that even their active users [are] going down. On every metric that investors care about, the company is tanking and there's going to be a fire sale within in the next 6 months...They're all political operatives for the Democrats. Anyway, this company is now tanking. I think what's happening is a lot of the employees are saying, we're going down, but why don't we just become the most effective liberal attack vector we can as long as we still exist?"

Yiannopoulos is currently in the middle of a book tour and stopped this week at Rutgers University in New Bruswick, NJ, where he was met with protests that included students smearing fake blood on their faces. He stated that colleges today are not the same places they were in the past.

"The purpose of my speech was to say that I feel as though American college campuses have become places that are no longer the center of free inquiry, intellectual abandon, and exciting engagement with new ideas and new people and new concepts that they ought to be and used to be."

He said debate of controversial ideas is now shut down, rather than debated vigorously.

"We've got to a point now in American Academia where merely asking for open and honest debate about, whether it's gender, race, sexuality, you name it, constitutes hate speech according to the progressive mores of the student activists. This is dangerous stuff. These kids really don't want to be exposed to new ideas. So my tour is just drawing attention to how ludicrous and hysterical the atmosphere is on campus at the moment."


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[MikeWB]

MILO: Twitter 'Embarking on a War Against Conservative Points of View'

Speaking with host and Breitbart News Executive Chairman Stephen K. Bannon on Breitbart News Daily, Breitbart Tech editor Milo Yiannopoulos discussed the suppression of conservative voices by Twitter on the social media platform.

"Why are you beating up Twitter, and why are you saying that Twitter trying to suppress conservative voices, and why is Twitter's stock in a total free fall because Milo's taking them on?" Bannon asked. "Are you a bigger, badder guy than Jack Dorsey?"

"Yeah, of course I am," Yiannopoulos replied mischievously. "I'm absolute convinced that Twitter is embarking on a war against conservative points of view, a war against what we might call 'Generation Trump,' the dissident, mischievous voices of the new counter-cultural alternative right wing and libertarian youth."

"Look at who Twitter employs," he warned in reference to Twitter possibly influencing the 2016 presidential election. "You know, this guy used to work with Hillary, this guy used to work with Obama..."

"This is why Obama ran the tables with Google and with Facebook," Bannon agreed. "Let's talk about Facebook for a second. Why is Facebook suppressing voices in the continent of Europe about immigration. Why is Zuckerberg in bed with Merkel?"

Referring to the story of Facebook teaming up with the German government to censor debate over the influx of Middle Eastern migrants, Yiannopoulos said, "This is what the left does all over the world. They'll take ridicule and criticism and they'll rebrand it as abuse and harrassment or hate speech in some way."

"This mergence of technology and thought control, it's Orwellian," Bannon said. "Are you fighting a rearguard action, or can we have victory in this?"

Noting that Twitter is failing and "in its death throes," Yiannopoulos stated that Facebook is "more of a problem" and "the one we should really be worried about."

"Why is Facebook more of a problem?" Bannon asked.

"Because the company's not doing so badly," Yiannopoulos replied. "Twitter's influence is waning. We found out this week its monthly active users are going down. The stock price is tanking, partly as a result of their spat with me, I think. I don't worry too much about them."

"I do worry about Facebook. I worry about Facebook because it's not just Facebook we're talking about, they also own WhatsApp, and they also own Instagram," he explained. "This company owns the platforms on which young people are messaging one another, and it has shown itself to be untrustworthy when it comes to free speech."


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