This is interesting. Does anyone have idea why the Facebook now admitted the censorship and government manipulation? 💭

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    13 days ago

    I love how he just uncritically and with absolute credulity accepts excerpts from a letter written by Zuck with no supporting evidence, no examples of what “pressure” looked like, etc.

    I can’t believe these people are still so butt hurt about the perfectly reasonable actions taken by the US and State governments and governments worldwide in response to a once in a century global respiratory DEADLY pandemic that killed millions and millions of humans.

    And as far as FB (and other social media) goes, fuck em. And fuck the users. Types of speech can be illegal. Defamation (lying about someone) and false advertising (lying about a product or service) can be illegal even though it’s definitely speech. These have “lying” in common, which to me implies there must be something about lying (specifically misrepresenting reality) that weakens typical 1st Amendment protections.

    But it’s clear what this guy is most sad about is the traffic he got while his article about Woodstock going on during a lull in the comparatively mild pandemic that was “active” at the time (no meaningful H3N2 activity in the US at the time) went away when FB rightly changed the algorithm to not boost his stupid irrelevant “analysis.”

    But people like the writer of this article are either too addled by conspiracy galaxy brain or too committed to lying for money to care that they could really hurt people with their bullshit.

    This guy needs to go to something less harmful like selling homeopathic tinctures or lying about the moon landing or flat earth or something.

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      13 days ago

      Rightly mean after request from Biden administration?

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        13 days ago

        Do you think “The Honorable Jim Jordan” regrets not being more outspoken when his buddy was raping kids?

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          13 days ago

          I am interested, how it relates to Mark Zuckerberg censorship of Facebook content on behalf of government?

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        12 days ago

        This is Zuck’s characterisation. No direct quotes. No attachments (that I’ve seen). He calls it pressure. He says they wanted to censor “satire & humor.” In fact this BS letter is what the original article quoted.