- "We’re flagging problematic posts for Facebook that spread disinformation,” White House press secretary Jen Psaki said, almost matter-of-factly, in July.
- The same week, Biden communications director Kate Bedingfield insisted that social media companies “should be held accountable” for misinformation on their platforms, singling out “conservative news outlets who are creating irresponsible content.”
- Even President Joe Biden got in on the act, accusing Facebook of “killing people” by allowing misinformation, before walking it back.
...Protecting people from the scourge of “misinformation” has been the leading rationale for censorship since nearly the beginning of the republic.
...You could argue, in fact, that regarding certain segments of the debate, you were only allowed to read “misinformation” on Facebook.
...You could argue, in fact, that regarding certain segments of the debate, you were only allowed to read “misinformation” on Facebook.
Thus were we subject not to rigorous fact-checking but to the propaganda of the Chinese Communist Party, able through U.S. Democrats to crack down on American dissent from the Beijing line...Read all.
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