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A conservative advocacy group is slamming social media platform LinkedIn, with online conservatives threatening to abandon the site after the group posted posts supporting the president donald trump The illegal immigration crackdown was temporarily called off, which the company said was a mistake.
“@DHSgov is carrying out its essential mission of maintaining national security,” the National Freedom Caucus Network posted on multiple platforms including X and LinkedIn on January 27.
“Biden allowed more than 10 million illegal aliens into our states, many of them violent criminals and pedophiles. Every state must ensure they work with ICE and CBP to remove them. Our caucus is at the forefront, leading states in supporting @POTUS’ mission to keep Americans safe!”
Thursday, SFCN Revealed a screenshot Shows that while X allowed the post, LinkedIn flagged it as “hate speech” and removed it.
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“Obviously, protecting children is ‘hateful’ but letting real predators roam free is fine,” SFCN wrote. “@elonmusk won’t censor us, but @LinkedIn will! We will delete our accounts for this.”
conservative vs. social media He soon began calling out the social media company, which was co-founded by liberal megadonor Reid Hoffman, who later sold the company to Microsoft, where he now sits on its board.
LinkedIn was criticized for removing a post from a conservative advocacy group, but later reinstated it. The company said the post was removed in error. (Thomas Trutcher/Photothek via Getty Images)
“Everyone deletes LinkedIn,” City Hall columnist Dustin Grage Posted on X. “Just a garbage woke platform that provides very little value.”
“How is it offensive to want pedophiles off the streets??? Why are you censoring conservatives? @LinkedIn,” conservative influencer account LibsofTikTok Posted on X. “Delete your Linkedin account.”
A LinkedIn spokesperson countered, telling Fox News Digital: “This was removed in error and we corrected it quickly.”
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Andrew Roth, president of the National Freedom Caucus Network, told Fox News Digital that he received a “removal notice” via email, and after the situation was posted on LibsofTikTok, he received another email saying the removal was a mistake.
“Initially, your post was removed for violating our policies,” LinkedIn told Ross. “As part of our review, we have now found that your post did not violate our policies and apologize for the error.”
“Yeah, that’s right,” Ross told Fox News Digital.
“I think wokeism still exists, but we’re going to continue to fight it. The first step is to stop participating on the LinkedIn platform. The second step is to tell the world what they did.”
Conservatives have long decried censorship and bias on social media platforms, and although the post was restored within hours of being deleted, Daniel Cochrane, a senior fellow at the Center for Technology and Humanity at the Heritage Foundation, told Fox Digital News that the situation represented a “predictable pattern” in how big tech platforms typically operate.
“Examine it first and then ask for forgiveness,” Cochran said.
“While platforms almost always claim there was a ‘bug’ or ‘miscommunication,’ content moderation systems and processes operate in a black box,” Cochrane added. “The opacity of these systems leads to a lack of accountability.”
Cochran went on to say that even when platforms don’t “explicitly target” specific groups or messages, “liberal bias” is often “woven into their algorithmic moderation systems, disproportionately labeling and devaluing conservative voices.”
“Without greater accountability, the status quo of arbitrary censorship is a feature of big tech platforms, not a bug.”
