{"id":1400,"date":"2021-11-24T19:27:47","date_gmt":"2021-11-24T18:27:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/monblogeur.tech\/index.php\/2021\/11\/24\/how-many-times-must-facebook-be-caught-censoring-the-truth-new-york-post\/"},"modified":"2021-11-24T19:27:47","modified_gmt":"2021-11-24T18:27:47","slug":"how-many-times-must-facebook-be-caught-censoring-the-truth-new-york-post","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/monblogeur.tech\/index.php\/2021\/11\/24\/how-many-times-must-facebook-be-caught-censoring-the-truth-new-york-post\/","title":{"rendered":"How many times must Facebook be caught censoring the truth? &#8211; New York Post"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"cfbc967f0983488262956e73eca9483a\" data-index=\"1\" style=\"float: none; margin:10px 0 10px 0; text-align:center;\">\n<script async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-3859091246952232\" crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script>\r\n<!-- blok -->\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\" data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-3859091246952232\" data-ad-slot=\"1334354390\"><\/ins>\r\n<script>\r\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script>\r\n\n<\/div>\n<p> \t\tThanks for contacting us. We&#039;ve received your submission.\t<br \/>In 2019, Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg stood at Georgetown University and pledged to \u201cfight to uphold as wide a <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2020\/07\/09\/mark-zuckerburg-is-getting-mauled-for-standing-up-for-free-speech\/\">definition of freedom of expression<\/a> as possible,\u201d promising in uncertainty to \u201cerr on the side of greater expression.\u201d He went on, \u201cI don\u2019t think most people want to live in a world where you can only post things that tech companies judge to be 100 percent true.\u201d<br \/>Such declarations seem almost quaint now, if not outright lies. <br \/>In the wake of the 2020 election, COVID-19 and every remotely controversial event that has followed, Twitter, Facebook and Google \u2014 America\u2019s premier speech platforms, which house and shape our national discourse \u2014 have taken the <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2021\/07\/16\/fb-oversight-member-says-free-speech-is-not-an-absolute-human-right\/\">decidedly opposite approach<\/a>, limiting the free flow of information, dialogue and any opinion that runs counter to what the Silicon Valley speech gods and their army of partisan fact-checkers have singlehandedly determined as fact.<br \/>Speech, as such, is no longer allowed on the platforms. Just correct speech. And under the great dystopian valance that cloaks America\u2019s major speech venues, the speech the platforms deem correct often turns out to be demonstrably wrong.<br \/>Consider how Facebook, in particular, treated <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2021\/11\/20\/critic-blasts-facebooks-power-after-kyle-rittenhouse-verdict\/\">the circumstances surrounding Kyle Rittenhouse<\/a>, the teen acquitted last week of all charges in the self-defense killings of two men and the shooting of another during last summer\u2019s riots in Kenosha, Wis. Immediately after the incident occurred, and despite video evidence which made a self-defense charge instantly plausible, Facebook declared it a \u201cmass murder\u201d and under that justification blocked searches for Rittenhouse\u2019s name and any content in \u201cpraise or support\u201d for him on the site \u2014 including links to contribute to his legal defense and videos purporting to show Rittenhouse providing aid to protesters.<br \/>In other words, Facebook determined that the only speech allowed on its platform was to declare Rittenhouse\u2019s guilt, not his innocence. Perhaps prompted by Facebook\u2019s actions or merely in spite of them, PayPal cut off affiliation with fundraising efforts for Rittenhouse, and so did GoFundMe. <br \/>PolitiFact, a Facebook-affiliated arbiter of facts, declared it was \u201cfalse\u201d that Rittenhouse was in legal possession of his firearm. The \u201cfact-checker\u201d did so by failing to account for exceptions in Wisconsin law which made his possession legal. (The gun charge was thrown out during the trial for the same reasons.)<br \/>A jury has <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2021\/11\/19\/kyle-rittenhouse-acquitted-of-all-charges-in-kenosha-shooting\/\">acquitted Rittenhouse on all charges<\/a> \u2014 those brought by the prosecutors and by Facebook \u2014 so now what? Will all the accounts which were banned or otherwise punished for speaking in his defense be reinstated? Will the self-righteous fact-checkers at PolitiFact be held accountable in any way? Will Facebook admit it was wildly wrong or simply pretend like it didn\u2019t make a blundering, ham-fisted judgment about Rittenhouse absent any due process, one which contributed to shaping a false national narrative?<br \/>This isn\u2019t the first time Facebook has been spectacularly wrong on an issue of national importance. Remember the COVID lab-leak theory? Throughout 2020, Facebook shut down and banned discussion that COVID-19 originated in a leak from a lab in Wuhan on the grounds that it was a dangerous conspiracy theory. In May, the company was forced to reverse itself after \u201cexperts\u201d suddenly determined the theory to be credible.<br \/>\u201cWhen does \u2018misinformation\u2019 stop being misinformation on social media?\u201d asked The Wall Street Journal. The answer, said the editorial board, is \u201cwhen Democratic government authorities give permission.\u201d<br \/>And therein lies the rub for Facebook, which is decidedly no longer the bastion of free speech its founder once proclaimed. It is a central hub of America\u2019s discourse, one which bears no accountability for being wrong about major cultural questions \u2014 despite the fact that in doing so, it becomes the purveyor of misinformation it deems only others to be. <br \/>Justice Louis Brandeis, in his famous 1927 concurrence in Whitney v. California, hit upon the essence of robust speech as its own corrective measure. \u201cIf there be time to expose through discussion, the falsehoods and fallacies,\u201d he wrote, \u201cthe remedy to be applied is more speech, not enforced silence.\u201d<br \/>Facebook, it seems, has lost the plot. Absent policy measures to break Facebook\u2019s scale, limit the platform\u2019s ideological moderation or legal changes which give users more accountability, it is unlikely to get it back.<br \/><em>Rachel Bovard is the senior \u00addirector of policy at the Conservative Partnership Institute and the senior tech columnist for The Federalist.<\/em><br \/>Share Selection<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2021\/11\/22\/how-many-times-must-facebook-be-caught-censoring-the-truth\/\">source<\/a><\/p>\n<!--CusAds0-->\n<div style=\"font-size: 0px; height: 0px; line-height: 0px; margin: 0; padding: 0; clear: both;\"><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thanks for contacting us. We&#039;ve received your submission. In 2019, Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg stood at Georgetown University and pledged to \u201cfight to uphold as wide a definition of freedom of expression as possible,\u201d promising in uncertainty to \u201cerr on the side of greater expression.\u201d He went on, \u201cI don\u2019t think most people want to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"googlesitekit_rrm_CAow1sXXCw:productID":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1400","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-non-classe"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/monblogeur.tech\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1400","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/monblogeur.tech\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/monblogeur.tech\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/monblogeur.tech\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/monblogeur.tech\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1400"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/monblogeur.tech\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1400\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/monblogeur.tech\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1400"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/monblogeur.tech\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1400"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/monblogeur.tech\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1400"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}