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There was the whole IRS targeting of conservative groups under Obama.

And I’m sure the “government overthrowers” (lol) also used Facebook and Twitter, yet only these other ones were taken down. We later found out, of course, that the likes of FB and Twitter had embedded censorship teams working hand-in-glove with the security state and advocacy groups.



> There was the whole IRS targeting of conservative groups under Obama.

There was a lot of talk about that but I note you left out the part where it wasn’t real. The IRS investigated both liberal and conservative groups, but only the conservative groups lied about being singled out as part of a defense strategy.

https://web.archive.org/web/20180225112702/https://www.treas...





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