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Theoretically, the main point here is that Facebook has an independent fact checker program, and some of those fact checkers rated Russian media posts (which would lead to a big scary overlay and a reduction in views)

I'd guess they would have used some other excuse to block Facebook sooner than later anyways though.

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"independent", are you really able to say it with straight face? I'm not even talking of russian posts, it is as partisan as can be, supporting Dem agenda and suppressing GOP.

Not a FB user, so I'm genuinely curious what the GOP agenda is being surpressed?

It's probably not perfectly accurate to frame this as DEM vs GOP agenda. It's closer to think of it in terms for Blue Tribe vs Red Tribe. And of course the Covid-19 stuff is the great example of this. 23 months ago you could get banned, or at least your posts blocked, for saying things that we now think are probably true. And this persists around some specific issues.

I tend to get shadowbanned for mild posts — eg, publishing the NIH grant where they describe engineering viruses at WIV or the NIH letter saying they enhanced WIV-1.

I wouldn’t describe it at Dem/GOP so much as narrative/against — but with the politics of COVID being what they are, there’s a correlation between Republicans objecting to various things and censorship.

I’m apparently a “conspiracy theorist” and source of “misinformation” because I actually read government documents. Oh well.

https://grantome.com/grant/NIH/R01-AI110964-06

https://www.twitter.com/GOPoversight/status/1450934193177903...

Is that what REALLY happened, or did you use those documents to claim that this was proof that Covid-19 was lab made and leaked?

GOP voters/media, like the Russian government, are big spreaders of fake news - which is why so much of their media gets removed by fact checkers. They aren't supporting the Democrats or the GOP directly.

Interestingly, if you read the Mueller report you will see that Russia generated fake news for Democrats as well (it just didn't spread as well as on its own).

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