Shadow-banning and Political Censorship: The Woman Behind The Fatty Truth on Instagram (TRP Episode 70)
When our guest began her Instagram page, it was about Keto stuff. It was a typical food account, pictures of food. It still is about food, if you go and look at her pictures.
But then the first quarter of 2020 happened, and she lost her job as a result of the lockdowns in New York, and she went from not having a political pulse–in her words, not knowing the difference between a Republican and a Democrat, a self-described liberal woman, a racial and ethnic minority who grew up in a foreign country–she went from political novice to voting for Trump in 2020. This despite the fact she is not in the Klan, as she clearly says when I asked her just to make sure. She’s also not a Nazi — I double-checked on that, as well. So.
She now uses Instagram to post Bible quotes and political and social commentary on the news of the day through Instagram stories.
Instagram doesn’t like her.
It doesn’t let her be tagged by other people. Instagram doesn’t allow you to hashtag her account name. It shadow-bans her. It has caused her to lose thousands of followers. And this kind of thing has been happening ever since she , well, became a Republican !
Amazing coincidence !
It’s almost as if the people who run Instagram are … Democrats !
The Republican Professor is a pro-Free-Speech, pro-Free-thought, pro-freedom-of-inquiry, pro-civil-non-censored-dialogue-on-social-media podcast.
Therefore, welcome, the woman behind The Fatty Truth on Instagram !
The Republican Professor is produced and hosted by Dr. Lucas J. Mather, Ph.D.