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> And Facebook knowingly and grubbily caused extra chaos as part of their effort to get their way

There is exceptionally little merit to this claim. They blocked links news outlets that would have subjected them to the link tax, and this block wasn't perfect. There was nothing to indicate that blocking sites that wouldn't have incurred the link tax was deliberate.

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They also blocked NGOs and some gov agencies people were relying on to get critical alerts.

It was a super shady move and some think it was intentional.

Their filter for blocking sites subject to the link tax caught some NGOs and government agencies, there was zero evidence that this was intentional. "Some think X happened" is a vastly weaker claim. Some think the earth is flat. Some think the 2020 election was stolen.

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