That's what makes all of this so ironic to me. Social media platforms and their users (especially Facebook) are not left-leaning. That a vast majority of Twitter users feel he will improve it means that the bias is fictional.

I don't know how you got that sentiment from that graphic, which doesn't have jack shit to do with political affiliation.

I will put $100 down right now that if you did a statistically significant, unbiased, controlled, representative sample of verified Twitter users - as in people you can provably show are actual human beings - you'll find the majority are left-leaning.

Oh wait, I don't have to, Pew Research Group already did it...

https://www.pewresearch.org/internet/2019/04/24/sizing-up-tw...

Facebook is a different animal because more than half the planet uses it, and what we consider "left" or "right" as Americans is dramatically different than what other nations would consider "left" or "right" or "liberal" or "conservative".

> verified Twitter users - as in people you can provably show are actual human beings

Verified means the account is authentic and of public interest. It doesn't guarantee that you are a person and further, the vast, vast majority of real people on twitter aren't verified.

as for the pew survey, it isn't controlling for many of the things that we know correlate with political affiliation, it is just reporting them as isolated facts. Just education and age would likely explain the delta in political affiliations within that survey. [1]

Sure this doesn't change the fact that the slight majority is Dem-Leaning, but it should raise serious doubt that its because of bias on the part of twitter instead of just plain old demographics of the internet.

https://www.pewresearch.org/politics/2015/04/07/a-deep-dive-...

"Just education and age would likely explain the delta in political affiliations within that survey. [1]"

These concedes the point that Twitter users are liberal on average.

Verified users. Not all users.

Most of the verified users are journalists, who do lean left. I don't think that says anything about the overall user base of twitter.

Honest question: have any far left politicians/celebrities/blue checkmark people been banned from twitter?

What do you consider "far left"?

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Twitter_suspensions

This link answers my question - thanks.

Far left is the opposite of far right, for which we can all point to many of them that have been banned from twitter.

I'd define the far right in terms of distance from center, personally.

So, I'll refine my question with an example from the list: who is the Anders Breivik of the left?

well helping people is the opposite of killing them so maybe a meals on wheels driver or a public defender?

Which far leftists do you think have done things on twitter similar to what caused far rightists to be banned?

I think the framing you're proposing is off; what the right has done are things that are offensive to leftists and as a result they're banned. It's tautological. This is exactly the premise of the criticism levied in this thread and writ-large at Twitter censorship.

Casual racism directed at white people is common and goes unpunished, for starters.

Who’s been banned for racism?

Nick Fuentez (well, racism and antisemitism), David Duke, I'm sure there are more but these are the only examples I know off the top of my head from being terminally online

You're implying liberals dont want free speech on Twitter.