WASHINGTON—Students feel they can’t express themselves properly on social media because of big tech censorship and, for some, the fear of being bullied into silence, with many experiencing or witnessing some form of shadow banning—the surreptitious suppression of a user’s content by the platform.
Students at Turning Point USA’s Teen Student Action Summit reported encountering such suppression on social media platforms, including Twitter, Instagram, and YouTube, on July 24, the third day of the summit, in interviews with The Epoch Times. Students came from across the country to hear from the numerous conservative leaders and politicians speaking at the Marriott Marquis hotel.
