ASBL 16 – May 23, 2025, Censored on X, New YouTube Channel

ASBL 16 – May 23, 2025

Censored on X, New YouTube Channel 

Lloyd’s posts on X used to get many likes and comments. Up to 3 million views a week. One post got 1.8 million views. He’s got 18,000 followers.

But when he posted things critical of the Pentagon and its trillions of dollars of accounting adjustments over the past 25 years, his followers stopped interacting (eventually they reached him and said they no longer could see his posts) and strangers started attacking him.

He went to their profiles. Most often, they were brand new, with no followers, following nobody, and had no original posts. Clearly, they were fake accounts or “bot” accounts.

Lloyd suspected censorship by algorithms or AI and searched and found that intelligence agencies, the Pentagon, and many private corporations deploy AI censorship programs on many social media platforms.

Lloyd grew up super-patriotic. It’s crushing to see the extent of censorship happening on X, a platform whose owner brags that it’s a free speech platform. It’s crushing to see that, “If you post the facts on X, you’re going to get censored.”

Lloyd would say that the Pentagon controls X. He feels he is being specifically targeted because he has sued the Pentagon dozens and dozens of times – and won.

So, he started a YouTube channel called “Censored on X”. He uses perplexity.ai a lot. He asked, “Is up to 75% of the activity on X computer/AI-generated?” Perplexity’s answer: yes.

To that degree, X is basically pointless.

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