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21WIRE + Techno Fog | It's what many suspected was happening. We should all be shocked at how brazen it was.

The Daily Sceptic has submitted a response to Meta’s request for public feedback about its COVID-19 misinformation policy. Tl;dr: the best remedy for bad speech is more speech, not enforced silence.
The post What Facebook Should Do About COVID-19 Misinformation – Absolutely Nothing appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.

In light of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, an information war as bitter as the ground fighting has erupted, and Meta (Facebook’s official name) announced it had partnered with nine organizations to help it sort fact from fiction.
The post Most of the “Fact-Checking” Organizations Facebook Uses in Ukraine Are Directly Funded by Washington appeared first on MintPress News.

U.K. intelligence-linked communication firm Valent has been advising Facebook on which accounts to ban for inauthentic behavior and on suspicions for being foreign-backed disinformation operations. But documents show that Valent itself is secretly funded by U.S. regime change organization USAID. This connection might explain the recent mass purgings from Sudanese and Ethiopian social media.

In this new MintPress investigation, journalist Alan MacLeod finds that Facebook has recruited dozens of individuals from the CIA, as well as many more from the FBI and Department of Defense (DoD). These hires are primarily in highly politically sensitive sectors such as trust, security and content moderation, to the point where some might feel it becomes difficult to see where the U.S. national security state ends and Facebook begins. 

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“In terms of their outlooks on the world and on the question of misinformation and internet security, you couldn’t get a better field of professionals who are almost inherently going to be more in tune with the government’s perspective.” – FBI Whistleblower Coleen Rowley
The post The Federal Bureau of Tweets: Twitter Is Hiring an Alarming Number of FBI Agents appeared first on MintPress News.

21WIRE | The DHS had 'planned to coordinate efforts to leverage ties with social media platforms to enable the removal of user content.'

Margaret Anna Alice I am calling on you to reject S.3737 (Promoting Public Health Information Act introduced by Senators Ben Ray Luján and Chris Murphy) and every other instrument of censorship under consideration now and in the future. Below is one of the dubious duties delineated in S.3737: (C) strategies to improve communication and dissemination of scientific and evidence-based public health information …

Since the Russian military operation to de-Nazify and de-militarize Ukraine began in late February, there is a common misperception that […]
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