Censorship on social media

  Student ID (SID): 1742702 We will address the issue of censorship and ideological bias in social networks as in recent years there has been a growing oppression on Youtube, Facebook, Twitter... To conservative or right wing websites and channels which are more critical of the mainstream for supporting other ideas. All this oppression has always been presented as a fight against hate speech, Facebook is one of the main social networks and owner of others and already announced that it was concerned about the removal of hate content on its platform and it was all triggered by the New Zealand shooting at a Mosque where the perpetrator streamed it live on facebook. If Facebook already had an ideological bias after this its algorithm and its pressure groups that organise en masse to take down certain users has become an everyday occurrence according to  (Racism, Hate Speech, and Social Media: A Systematic Review and Critique - Ariadna Matamoros-Fernández, Johan Farkas, 2021, 2021). It is