Facebook's 'Science' Censorship Isn't Just Wrong, It's Dangerous
By Bonchie | May 20, 2021 5:15 PM ET
For years, right-leaning news and opinion sites have been waging a war for exposure. As big tech companies gained a larger and larger monopoly over the flow of information, censorship became the norm, and things accelerated as these companies saw it as part of their civic duty to ensure Donald Trump wasn’t re-elected in 2020. One of the worst examples involved factual reporting on Hunter Biden that was directly suppressed.
(related Facebook Officials Admit to Reducing Traffic on Explosive Hunter Biden Email Story)
The problems go beyond just the blockbuster stories, though. Facebook also uses its “fact-checkers” to relentlessly crack down on the daily discussion of things like global warming and the response to the COVID-19 pandemic. These attacks on freedom of expression happen behind the scenes and put sites between a rock and hard place. Do they possibly blow up a large portion of their traffic over a single article? Or do they make the changes demanded by the social media overlords and live to fight another day? Anyone claiming that’s an easy decision has never run a business and had people who count on them for an income.
Katie Pavlich at Townhall explains exactly how this system works in a new piece where she calls out Facebook’s anti-science censorship.
...
READ MORE: https://redstate.com/bonchie/2021/05/20/facebooks-science-censorship-isnt-just-wrong-its-dangerous-n383823