Zuckerberg Admits Election Meddling
1 min read(Protestia) At Protestia, we are intimately familiar with Facebook’s censorship of conservative content. Now they are brazenly admitting their disdain for free speech, brought to bear during the run-up to the 2020 election.
In his remote testimony before the Senate Judiciary Committee, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg admitted to using the censorship power of the Facebook “platform” to control speech before, during, and after the 2020 election – although shadow banning and algorithmic censorship has been happening at Facebook for years.
Facebook, according to Zuckerberg, added what he calls “additional context” to posts trying to “delegitimize the results” of the election, which as of November 17th does not have a clear result. Apparently forgetting that Facebook allows anyone to rebut political claims, he bragged about “locking down” political posts in the week leading up to the election because (in his words) these “misleading claims couldn’t be rebutted.”
Absent any evidence, he claimed that Facebook censored “militia and conspiracy groups” like QAnon because they were organizing violence and civil unrest.
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