Thanks for clarifying. On that I can agree what I don't agree with is silencing the public, the MSM, or social media when it comes to those issues.
Think what you will at this point you dug the hole relying on others to think for you and believing they would never feed you dis/misinformation.
If you can't understand why our national security agencies have a vested interest in combating disinformation and foreign interference you're hopeless. Russia, China, and Iran depend on people like you.
If you can't understand where this leads you are hopeless and should move to China, Russia or Iran where they will take care of your vested interest concerning every bit of information.
If there is any doubt about the Federal government being involved in the information that gets divulged to the public or the Federal Government silencing information they don't want the public to know about. Take a listen to the White House Daily Briefing with Jen Psaki July 15,2021. The entire brief is worth a listen to but the most revealing part of the brief comes from Jen Psaki's response to a question starting at the 16:27 mark through 19:58. Listen to Jen Psaki lay out what the Federal Government is doing to stop the spread of what they consider mis/disinformation. Your own Federal Government told you they were doing this. Don't you love C-SPAN. White House Daily Briefing Thanks, Jen. Can you talk a little bit more about this request for tech companies to be more aggressive in policing misinformation? Has the administration been in touch with any of these companies and are there any actions that the federal government can take to ensure their cooperation, because we've seen, from the start, there's not a lot of action on some of these platforms. Jennifer R. Psaki Sure. Well, first, we are in regular touch with these social media platforms, and those engagements typically happen through members of our senior staff, but also members of our COVID-19 team, given, as Dr. Murthy conveyed, this is a big issue of misinformation, specifically on the pandemic.In terms of actions, Alex, that we have taken - or we're working to take, I should say - from the federal government: We've increased disinformation research and tracking within the Surgeon General's office. We're flagging problematic posts for Facebook that spread disinformation. We're working with doctors and medical professionals to connect - to connect medical experts with popular - with popular - who are popular with their audiences with - with accurate information and boost trusted content. So we're helping get trusted content out there.We also created the COVID-19 - the COVID Community Corps to get factual information into the hands of local messengers, and we're also investing, as you all have seen in the President's, the Vice President's, and Dr. Fauci's time in meeting with influencers who also have large reaches to a lot of these target audiences who can spread and share accurate information.You saw an example of that yesterday. I believe that video will be out Fri- - tomorrow. I think that was your question, Steve, yesterday; I did a full follow-up there.There are also proposed changes that we have made to social media platforms, including Facebook, and those specifically are four key steps.One, that they measure and publicly share the impact of misinformation on their platform. Facebook should provide, publicly and transparently, data on the reach of COVID-19 - COVID vaccine misinformation. Not just engagement, but the reach of the misinformation and the audience that it's reaching.That will help us ensure we're getting accurate information to people. This should be provided not just to researchers, but to the public so that the public knows and understands what is accurate and inaccurate.Second, that we have recommended - proposed that they create a robust enforcement strategy that bridges their properties and provides transparency about the rules. So, about - I think this was a question asked before - there's about 12 people who are producing 65 percent of anti-vaccine misinformation on social media platforms. All of them remain active on Facebook, despite some even being banned on other platforms, including Facebook - ones that Facebook owns.Third, it's important to take faster action against harmful posts. As you all know, information travels quite quickly on social media platforms; sometimes it's not accurate. And Facebook needs to move more quickly to remove harmful, violative posts - posts that will be within their policies for removal often remain up for days. That's too long. The information spreads too quickly.Finally, we have proposed they promote quality information sources in their feed algorithm. Facebook has repeatedly shown that they have the levers to promote quality information. We've seen them effectively do this in their algorithm over low-quality information and they've chosen not to use it in this case. And that's certainly an area that would have an impact.So, these are certainly the proposals. We engage with them regularly and they certainly understand what our asks are.
More evidenced that Musk is doing the same exact thing he is bitching about old Twitter doing ... this was the kid that was relying public information about Musk's plane. First they made his account basically invisible on Dec. 2nd, then they banned him totally today ... Free Speech Absolutism!!!
Remember the Twitter Files nonsense we were subjected to once Elon took over Twitter? No surprise here but it was a giant nothing burger:
