Thursday, September 01, 2022

COMMENTARY_ The FBI, Facebook & leftist podcasters: All enemies of free speech

THE WASHINGTON TIMES

The FBI, Facebook & leftist podcasters: All enemies of free speech

One serious revelation, one absurd incident illustrate threats to 1st Amendment


Illustration on shutting down free speech by Alexander Hunter/The Washington Times more >

COMMENTARY

By Tim Murtaugh - - Thursday, September 1, 2022

OPINION:



Two incidents in just the past week, though seemingly unconnected, demonstrated how ominous, and at times absurd, the leftist desire to control all information available to the public. The first involved a federal law enforcement agency encouraging a social media giant to clamp down on certain posts leading up to the 2020 election, while the second centered around a juvenile tantrum thrown by thin-skinned progressives who fear opposing points of view.

Neither episode speaks well of the state of free speech in America.

On the August 25th edition of Joe Rogan’s immensely popular podcast, Facebook founder and Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg revealed the impetus for his platform’s squelching of the story of Hunter Biden’s laptop. He said the FBI had alerted Facebook to be wary of a burst of Russian propaganda in the weeks before the presidential election, so when the laptop story exploded, the platform reduced the number of users who could see the report.

Unable to quantify how many users were prevented from seeing the news, Mr. Zuckerberg did admit to Mr. Rogan that it was a “meaningful” number.

The world now knows, of course, that the laptop was always authentic, and linked Hunter Biden’s shady foreign influence-peddling with his father, now-President Joe Biden.

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READ MORE: https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2022/sep/1/the-fbi-facebook-leftist-podcasters-all-enemies-of/

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