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Michael Shellenberger Profile picture
@shellenberger
Jun 14, 2023 • 9 tweets • 5 min read • Read on X
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
nypost.com/2020/04/17/fac…
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. ImageImageImage
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.

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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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Feb 22
For weeks, the media said that, by eliminating USAID, Trump had created a "constitutional crisis" and "abandoned" vulnerable people. It was all nonsense. A federal judge today ruled that the "risk posed to USAID employees... is far more minimal than it initially appeared. " Image
Media outlets uncritically embraced the notion that what Trump had done was unconstitutional. They uncritically accepted claims that USAID people would somehow be put in grave danger. It was all total nonsense, the evidence shows.Image
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The claims of "emotional harm" were too "'hypothetical' to "support a finding of irreparable harm."
"Upon scrutiny" the alleged injuries "are not irreparable."
USAID had not deprived anyone of necessary security.
And USAID had an orderly plan to return people home.Image
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Feb 21
The UK seems like a free nation. It’s not. It is run by a tyrant, Prime Minister @Keir_Starmer . Shame on him for his totalitarian demand. And bravo to Apple CEO @tim_cook for defying the government. Please share this to warn the world that UK is no longer safe for free people! Image
“Apple previously called a bill from the UK Parliament that sought access to user data ‘unprecedented overreach by the government.’ At the time, the company said that ‘the UK could attempt to secretly veto new user protections globally preventing us from ever offering them to customers.’”
“Customers already using Advanced Data Protection, or ADP, will need to manually disable it during an unspecified grace period to keep their iCloud accounts.

“The company said it will issue additional guidance in the future to affected users and that it does not have the ability to automatically disable it on their behalf.

“The move to pull its encryption feature — rather than complying and building a backdoor — is a clear rebuke of the government’s order.”Image
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Feb 20
For weeks the media have insisted that Trump and Elon were lying about rampant government fraud, waste, or abuse. Finally WSJ admits that “wasteful spending… isn’t hard to find.” Ya think? Image
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Here’s the Times a week ago lying brazenly. Scroll down the thread and you can see they later alter the headline. They’re effectively saying that accusations of government waste, fraud and abuse are a conspiracy theory. Everything’s fine. Media gaslighting as usual.
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Feb 14
JD Vance is right: the greatest threat to free speech and democracy in the Western world comes from Europe. This week, I warned of the global axis of censorship, and why America must stand up for our founding values. It is inspiring to see the Trump admin. center free speech!
Bravo @JDVance !

There are some amazing quotes in this speech:

— "If American democracy can survive 10 years of Greta Thunberg's scolding, you guys can survive a few months of Elon Musk. But what German democracy, what no democracy, American, German, or European, will survive is telling millions of voters that their thoughts and concerns, their aspirations, their pleas for relief are invalid or unworthy of even being considered. Democracy rests on the sacred principle that the voice of the people matters."
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Feb 12
The New York Times says “Musk Asserts Without Proof That Bureaucracy Is Rife With Fraud.” Seriously? The GAO — under Biden — estimated last year that we are losing $233-$521 billion *per year* to fraud. Guys, it’s right there. Why do you continue with this… fraud? SMH Image
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Seriously, why do you guys keep doing this? Everyone can see you’re lying. It’s pathological.
Look. At. The. First. Sentence.🙄

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Feb 11
For decades, presidents said they told us everything they could about Covid, JFK, Epstein, UAPs and more. They lied. Trump promised real disclosure and now @realannapaulina says, “We’ve been treated like children for too long,” and will disclose! LFG! 🔥

.@realannapaulina is right: the only way to repair the trust lost between the American people and those we entrust with our security is for a historic process of disclosure of information that should no longer remain secret. Image
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Learn more about what the US government has been hiding for 60 years about the JFK assassination in my podcast with @jeffersonmorley below!

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