First Facebook, now Twitter. .Ontario Party (OP) Leader Derek Sloan says “election tampering” by Big Tech is an attempt to prevent him from getting his message out during the provincial campaign underway..Twitter suspended Sloan’s account Sunday without explaining what prompted the decision..In February, Facebook banned him from running campaign ads..The OP requested a review of the Twitter suspension..“Twitter let us know on Sunday that his account had been suspended and did not indicate which tweets violated their policies,” OP Media Coordinator Hannah Salaman-Vegh told the Western Standard..Sloan suspects the Twitter suspension resulted from his recent tweets responding to comments made by Chief Public Health Officer Dr. Theresa Tam who raised alarms about the “impacts of long COVID.” .Tam recently said that up to 50% of people who caught COVID-19 have “long COVID symptoms” and the anticipated impact of this “is going to be quite substantial.”.She urged Canadians to take the vaccine and booster doses. .Tweeted Sloan: “Their next move will be to rebrand the symptoms of COVID vaccine injury as “long COVID.”.“The cure for “long COVID” will be more vaccine boosters, which create more “long COVID.” Public health isn’t on your side,” he tweeted..And Sloan said Big Tech doesn’t appear to be on his side..“Big Tech is trying to steal this election,” said Sloan..“Social media companies cannot interfere in an ongoing election. With three weeks left of this election, they fear freedom and are trying to stomp it out.”.Sloan’s OP is expected to field 120 candidates — four shy of a full house — in the June 2 Ontario election..Sloan is running as Member of the Provincial Parliament (MPP) in Hastings-Lennox and Addington..The election is widely viewed as a referendum against Ontario Premier Doug Ford who soared to victory with 76 seats in 2018 by promising to uphold conservative values..Ford promptly swerved to the far left falling in line with policies compatible with those of Liberal Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and the NDP..The OP platform is a message of faith, freedom, and family..“Social media platforms should be arenas for the free exchange of ideas, not fiefdoms where Big Tech employees act as operatives for certain political parties and arbiters of thought,” said Sloan in a media release..“Silencing the leader of a political party for expressing legitimate political views during an election cycle is nothing less than election tampering and is a profoundly anti-democratic act.” .“Our party is committed to getting our message of 'Freedom, Faith, and Family' out this election, and no amount of censoring by Big Tech will stop us. The people of Ontario deserve a party that truly stands up to censorship.”.Former federal Conservative leader Erin O’Toole ousted Sloan, who represented Hastings-Lennox and Addington, from caucus in January 2021..Reasons cited included an obscure $131 campaign donation from a white supremacist. O’Toole said Sloan was too disruptive.
