The Media Research Center’s Corinne Weaver spent a Nov. 26 post detailing how “Twitter’s war on conservative thought” claimed a couple so-called victims. The first was right-wing radio host and failed congressional candidate Jesse Kelly, who was removed for unclear reasons but was actually reinstated the day after Weaver’s post.
The second was “far-right journalist Laura Loomer,” whom Weaver writes “was erased from the platform on November 21 for criticizing Muslim Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-MN).” Weaver added: “Loomer was booted off the platform on Wednesday for accusing Muslim Rep. Omar of being anti-Jewish, supporting Sharia law, and being pro-female genital mutilation. She was told that by doing so, she had “promoted violence against, threatened, or harassed other people on the basis of race, ethnicity, national origin, sexual orientation, gender, gender identity, religious affiliation, age, disability, or serious disease.” Almost immediately after her Twitter ban, Loomer was given a 30-day Facebook suspension.”
While Weaver earned a little credit for admitting that Loomer is “far-right,” she failed to inform readers just how far right– and Islamophobic — she is. Loomer was banned from using Uber and Lyft after she ranted that “Someone needs to create a non Islamic form of @uber or @lyft because I never want to support another Islamic immigrant driver” and complaining she couldn’t find a “non Muslim cab.”
A couple days after her banning, Loomer handcuffed herself to the door of Twitter’s corporate offices in New York while wearing a yellow star of David as if getting kicked off Twitter for spewing hate was the same as getting Holocausted. (Quick, someone call Rabbi Spero!)
Loomer is clearly not a person who anyone should take seriously. But Weaver wants you to think she is in order to keep up the MRC’s anti-social media narrative.