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CBR Chair of Politics, Censorship & Free Speech @UAustinOrg : Dao Journalism Winner : Time, "Hero of Environment" : Author, “Apocalypse Never,” "San Fransicko"

Jun 14, 2023, 9 tweets

In Feb. 2020, after a @nypost oped said COVID-19 came from a lab leak, Facebook censored the story. Why? Because "independent fact-checkers" said it was "False information." Not only was it true information, one of the fact-checkers had worked at the lab
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Ten months later, Facebook and Twitter censored @nypost for another accurate article, this time about Hunter Biden's laptop

As such, the @nypost , which reporters @nytimes & @washingtonpost sneer at for being a "tabloid," got two of the biggest stories of 2020 right, while the Times and the Post — which called the lab leak a racist and "debunked conspiracy theory — got it horribly wrong.

Twitter & Facebook execs sided with media that confirmed their partisan assumptions rather than allow the debate to occur.

And Facebook continues its ideologically one-sided censorship today, censoring a reasonable debate over who blew up Nordsream

Facebook censored me in 2020 after I accurately said natural disasters were getting better, not worse, resulting in fewer deaths and causing less economic damage, when accounting for more wealth in harm's way, than they had in the past.

Here's the data showing declining disasters as a result of fewer deaths and declining costs from extreme weather events. This data is uncontroversial and uncontested. And yet Facebook continues to censor me for sharing this accurate information.

Nearly 5M people on Twitter have seen, and nearly 7k have shared, our bombshell exclusive yesterday.

Just 5 people — 5, not 5M, nor 5k — shared our bombshell exclusive on Facebook.

Facebook operates blacklists and engages in partisan, ideological censorship

Join us in at 7 pm, June 22, at Westminster Central Hall, London, UK, where we will expose the Censorship Industrial Complex! Get your tickets now!

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We now know that covid started in a lab and that the US government has known for a long time that the first people to get sick were the scientists working on gain of function research, which makes viruses more infectious

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