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Michael Shellenberger Profile picture
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Aug 2 • 3 tweets • 2 min read Twitter logo Read on Twitter
Fact-checkers claim to have special powers to discern the truth, but they don't. And now, a new, months-long investigation finds multiple instances where fact-checkers spread misinformation and then demanded censorship. Why? Because of the narcissistic "third-person effect." Image
Narcissism Of The Fact-Checkers

Money, partisanship, and authoritarianism behind growing demands for censorship

by @PhoebeThinking @shellenberger

Fake news about the riots in France was yet more proof that misinformation is widespread on social media platforms, said experts… https://t.co/AzqLRU6XlMtwitter.com/i/web/status/1…
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Aug 3
News rating groups like @NewsGuardRating claim to be objective and have special insight into "misinformation," but they don't. NewsGuard takes money from the Pentagon and spreads misinformation about covid's origin. It is arrogant & depends on the fear & greed of legacy media. Image
Steven Brill and Gordon Crovitz: Fear, Arrogance, and Greed Behind “News Rating” Organizations

On NewsGuard and the need for journalistic humility

by @shellenberger

The bewildering number of news organizations has inspired entrepreneurs to create ways to rank them. The most… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
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Aug 1
Good thing lab leaks are just a conspiracy theory or this might be concerning Image
Journalists like @alisonannyoung had for years been reporting on frequent and dangerous lab leaks when the mainstream news media denounced, en masse, any speculation that Covid-19 might have resulted from a lab leak as a "debunked conspiracy theory."

This is from 2014: Image
Under pressure from totalitarians and useful idiots in the the news media, Facebook censored this well-reasoned oped in February 2020

nypost.com/2020/02/22/don…
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Aug 1
People think solar panels are good for the environment but they’re not. They’re made with toxic heavy metals and aren’t recycled. Most are made with coal in China and produce produce 3x more CO2 than IPCC thought. And they require 300-600x more land than other energy sources. https://t.co/7gmynXBQTo
It’s always been possible to recycle solar panels but it will always be cheaper to buy raw materials to make new ones and dump the old ones in landfills or on poor African nations. That’s why all of the solar panel makers oppose any requirement that they recycle.

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Every few years the media ask whether there’s some technical fix to the fact that solar requires 300-600x more land than other energy sources and of course there isn’t. You can’t make sunlight more energy dense. See for yourself:

https://t.co/N3WBX4TaCrenvironmentalprogress.org/power-density-…
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Jul 29
Facebook and YouTube say they're "social media platforms," but they're not. They censor accurate info in response to White House demands and spread state-sanctioned disinformation. Congress should stop protecting them from lawsuits, which enables their unchecked abuses of power.
When Congress protected social media platforms from liability in 1996, its intention was to increase freedom of speech, not reduce it.

By censoring "often-true content" and promoting government disinfo, Facebook & YouTube are violating the spirit, if not the letter, of the law.
The risk of Congress taking away Section 230 protections from YouTube and Facebook is that they would disallow even more content, which is true.

But users would still have Rumble, X, and other Section 230-protected platforms for posting content.
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Jul 28
The White House says it didn't censor anyone, but new emails show it demanded Facebook censor posts about the lab leak.

"Can someone quickly remind me why we were removing... claims that Covid is man made”?

“We were under pressure from the administration and others to do more" Image
White House Caught Censoring

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by @lwoodhouse @galexybrane @kshellenberger

White House Caught… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
@lwoodhouse @galexybrane @kshellenberger Trans-victimization

For many Americans, extending rights to trans people aligns with past movements to extend rights to women, racial minorities, gays, and lesbians. In the same way that women and girls deserved female-only spaces and sports, which they achieved in the 1964… https://t.co/QejUnOLLdqtwitter.com/i/web/status/1…
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Jul 27
People say the Biden White House didn't pressure Facebook to censor, but it did.

FB to White House 3/21/21: "...in addition to removing... often-true content..."

FB internally 4/21/21: "We are facing continued pressure...from the White House... to remove more... content..." https://t.co/eunUEETZYwtwitter.com/i/web/status/1…

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“If government officials are directing or facilitating such censorship, it raises serious First Amendment questions. It is axiomatic that the government cannot do indirectly what it is prohibited from doing directly.” — @JonathanTurley
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