I think this comes down to the fact that removing lies and fake news hurts Republicans at this point in time.
If in the future the Democrats are the lying ones, then those lies deserve to be removed too.
If in the future the Democrats are the lying ones, then those lies deserve to be removed too.
> In late 2017, when Facebook tweaked its newsfeed algorithm to minimize the presence of political news, policy executives were concerned about the outsize impact of the changes on the right, including the Daily Wire, people familiar with the matter said. Engineers redesigned their intended changes so that left-leaning sites like Mother Jones were affected more than previously planned, the people said. Mr. Zuckerberg approved the plans.
That is: Facebook decided to intervene to benefit the right. I don't think this is just because of right-wingers at Facebook: surely a large part of it is bad-faith attacks from people like Ted Cruz.
The idea that Twitter and Facebook are conspiring to suppress legitimate criticism of Biden and thereby defeat Trump is plain ridiculous.
[1] Story is here: https://t.co/sjOYrLQdc3?amp=1 but I got the blurb from this tweet: https://twitter.com/patcaldwell/status/1317140564169625600
As far as I know, they're not broadly removing "half the information" (which I'm taking to refer to conservative viewpoints), but disinformation related to QAnon, voting, covid, etc.
Disinformation is not something that will help anyone make better judgements.
https://apnews.com/article/election-2020-media-social-media-...
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-54443878
https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2020/08/11/faceboo...
https://www.cnet.com/news/facebook-twitter-block-trump-post-...
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-facebook-election-exclusi...
https://www.theglobeandmail.com/world/us-politics/article-fa...