Facebook Admits to Government-Requested Censorship
How Far Does Information Control Go?
we need to talk about this bomb Zuckerberg just dropped. Get this: the Biden administration was pressuring Facebook to censor Covid-19 content in 2021. And I’m not just talking about fake news, but even jokes and memes! This really ticks me off.
As a woman and Facebook user, I feel completely duped. All this time, I thought I was seeing everything my friends were sharing, when in fact there were guys behind the scenes deciding what I could or couldn’t see. What a load of crap!
Now Zuckerberg comes out saying it was “wrong” and he’s sorry they weren’t more transparent. Oh really? And you’re just remembering to tell us now, buddy? When so much time has passed and the damage is done?
This raises so many questions I don’t even know where to start:
- Since when can the government go around telling a private company what they can or can’t show? It’s like if my mom called my boss to tell him what I can do at work. Ridiculous!
- If they did this with Covid, what else are they censoring without telling us? It gives me the creeps just thinking about it.
- And what about freedom of speech? Did it go on vacation during the pandemic and nobody told me?
