Social, censorship and fact checker: errors and abuse of social media
It is useless to be under any illusions: freedom of speech is crushed and questioned every day. The weapons with which the usual rotten powers, including social media, try to erase and bend it can be summarized in:
- By paying the mainstream press, and we know that the bureaucracy paid 386 million to the Italian press;
- cutting resources to independent sites, like FB and Google do with advertising;
- deleting prominent figures from social networks, or limiting their accessibility;
- using the "Fact checker" guys named by the powers themselves, or colluded by them, to say who is "Good" and who is bad.
Curiously, this closure of 2021 has brought us news and examples of all these censorship tools, created to make sure you don't think for yourself. Yesterday, in fact, the news of 386 million in the press, then the list, worthy of the fifth grade, of "good and bad" made by guys who have appointed themselves authorities. Then two news that we give you now, regarding Facebook and Twitter.
On Tuesday, a group of Facebook 's " Fact Checke r" admitted that they had erroneously reported an article in Reason magazine investigating the effectiveness of masks worn to school in controlling or not the spread of Covid-19
Science Feedback, a "Fact Checker" organization, with unknown qualifications, collaborating with Facebook, reported a Reason Facebook article written by Robby Soave titled " The Study That Persuaded the CDC to Support Mask Mandates in Schools it is scientific garbage ”.
The organization said the article contained " false information, verified by independent fact-checkers " and its author received a disclaimer stating that " pages and websites that repeatedly post or share false news will see reduced their overall distribution and will be limited in other ways , ”Kind of a warning to closure that comes to you in spite of everything. Too bad that in this case the article was consistent with another published in The Atlantic , which, with the same tone, confirmed that the use of masks increased, not reduced, the risk of getting sick with covid at school. Except that the other article hadn't had any censorship from Facebook! The FB Fact Checker, in this case, was forced to cancel the review and apologize to Reason. one case in a million!
Meanwhile, without any warning or direct challenge, Twitter suspended the account of Dr. Robert Malone, one of the mRNA researchers, who helped create the mRNA vaccine, but who recently turned out to be rather skeptical about its use and its use. utility. His fault? Probably that of having been too opposed to the vaccine and vocal in his statements.
This is what got him banned. There wasn't even any misinformation – the video verbatim went line through line on the data. This is nothing short of gross censhorship at the behest corporate interests. pic.twitter.com/62c4D4AWAj
– ˡᵒᶰᵍ ᵒᶰ $ ᵃᵐᶜ (@ xw33bttv) December 29, 2021
Freedom is only guaranteed when it is aligned with power. Otherwise you are just "Unreliable" …
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