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i'm kinda shocked how ridiculous the whole situation is

Facebook: publishes propaganda

Russian state media: publishes propaganda

Facebook: blocks Russian state media so they can't publish propaganda

Russian government: blocks Facebook because Russian state media can't publish propaganda and Facebook publishes propaganda

How is Facebook publishing propoganda. It is a content distribution platform, not a creation one.

1. Facebook‘s „fact“ checkers defaming unconvenient truths as „fake news“

2. Facebook banning individual accounts for violation of selectively interpreted „community guidelines“

3. Facebook manually tweaking the recommendation algorithm to promote some topics and not others

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Still on a completely different level than Russian state-based propaganda, of course, but Facebook is not „just a neutral platform“

yeah i'm gonna need a source on #1

Russia publishes disinformation. Different than propaganda.