Peter Thiel On Silicon Valley: Political Correctness Leads To A 'One-Party State'

Thiel also quipped that he'd encounter the same barriers in Hollywood if he was seeking to become a movie star. He characterized his support for Trump as simultaneously the most and the least contrarian thing he's ever done.

"Thiel's decision to support Trump was unpopular among many of his progressive peers in the technology industry, with some calling for him to be dumped from the Facebook board," the Guardian added.

Parenthetically, Peter Thiel is considering launching a media company offering conservative- and libertarian-focused content assuming he and his team can come up with an appropriate business model.

A backer of bitcoin, which he says could become the "digital equivalent of gold," Peter Thiel also predicted that Donald Trump would win reelection in 2020, Business Insider reported.

A number of personalities and entities on the right have found themselves suspended for alleged hate speech under broad-brush standards that they claim aren't applied to their left-wing counterparts. Silicon Valley critics have assailed the tech firms, moreover, for championing net neutrality but not content neutrality. There are increasing calls across the ideological spectrum to regulate the social media platforms like public utilities.

In a study of 50 online publishers released on Tuesday, The Western Journal, which is a conservative-leaning outlet, concluded that modifications to Facebook's news feeds have adversely affected conservatives' market share more than liberals.

"Liberal publishers have gained about 2 percent more web traffic from Facebook than they were getting prior to the algorithm changes implemented in early February. On the other hand, conservative publishers have lost an average of nearly 14 percent of their traffic from Facebook...This algorithm change, intentional or not, has in effect censored conservative viewpoints on the largest social media platform in the world."

"According to The Outline's analysis of Facebook engagement data obtained from research tool BuzzSumo, conservative and right-wing publishers...were hit the hardest in the weeks following the announcement, with Facebook engagement totals for February dropping as much as 55 percent for some, while the engagement numbers of most predominantly liberal publishers remained unaffected."

Citing an online survey about viewpoint diversity of 387 Silicon Valley workers and about two-dozen interviews by the Lincoln Network, described as right-leaning political group for tech workers, Wired summarized the findings.

"Two-thirds or more of respondents who describe themselves as libertarian, conservative or very conservative say they feel less comfortable sharing their ideological views with colleagues since Google fired Damore in August. But only 30 percent of liberals and 14 percent of people who say they are very liberal feel that way...Sixty percent of the very conservative group said they would 'never' share their views, compared to just 4.7 percent of very liberals."

Added: Facebook has just announced it has suspended Cambridge Analytica, the political data firm affiliated with the Trump presidential campaign, from the platform for alleged policy violations.