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30 Jul, 6 tweets, 7 min read
This is a fascinating detail from this explosive interview with Facebook whistleblower @szhang_ds. Facebook went after her hosting server & got her personal website taken down. This is *exactly* what Facebook did to @FBoversight’s website before launch. Extraordinary.
Here’s where @daithaigilbert wrote it up for @VICE. We had 2 enforcement notices from 2 ISPs that said Facebook had issued takedown notices against us. Yet Facebook denied it, a preposterous claim, ISP experts told us.

vice.com/en/article/v7g…
Facebook went after Sophie Zhang’s website in Sept 2020 just weeks before it went after @fboversight’s. It’s incredibly chilling that a trillion $ monopolist would attempt to silence 2 critics warning Facebook was helping subvert the US 2020 election (as turned out to be case)
And with us, it didn’t stop there. As @oliviasolon uncovered & confirmed in this piece, Facebook put significant pressure on @luminategroup to withdraw its funding of @allthecitizens to try & stop formation of @fboversight.

nbcnews.com/tech/tech-news…
And there’s more in this piece by @suehalpernVT in @NewYorker. Facebook which, remember, claims it is entirely separate from @OversightBoard, went to desperate lengths to silence @FBoversight. As we now discover it did at same time to @szhang_ds

newyorker.com/tech/annals-of…
cc @YaelEisenstat @rashadrobinson @shoshanazuboff @Moonalice @mariaressa @MarietjeSchaake @digitalsista @JGo4Justice. Read the thread!

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The UK medicines regulator says Pfizer safe for over 12s

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The investigation found that 91% of the CEOs and managing directors who have won the main Covid-19 contracts since the pandemic began are men. 91% are white.
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