Just before election. It Was quite shocking when I tried messaging links to news articles on Facebook and they were being blocked. Then to find out that FBI asked Facebook to do this.
Movie. https://www.breitbart.com/entertainment/2022/09/20/13-true-f...
Facebook admitting. https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-62688532.amp
An interesting take, Mr. Zuckerberg.
If you want an idea of Breitbart's motives... they specifically cast an actress due to her controversial statements, for example. Earlier this year she claimed the war in Ukraine was a fake plot because “they lost control of the COVID narrative.”
What's really scary is the silent implicit algorithmic ranking that decides which stories, channels, websites get traffic. Invisible and much more effective, leaving no big "banned from Facebook" banner a victim can point to. Just a mysterious, gradual dwindling of traffic. It could be for legitimate reasons, or because someone has their thumb on the scale, for political or economic reasons.
We know about it now. The problem is a large number of people when polled said they would not have voted for Biden if they had known about the laptop before the election. It may have been enough to swing the election.
You can be happy or sad about the ends - but should be terrified of the means.
It wasn't an award show snub, or a gender bathroom debate, it was the entire direction of the USA with the largest military on Earth.
And it causes no backlash - you wouldn't even know it was happening, unless you laboriously compared statistics with how much exposure stories (not just news stories, films and books shape our perception of the world just as much) get, for the few sufficiently objective categories where a meaningful comparison can be made.
Let’s worry about the thing that already happened instead of the hypothetical.