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Chinese diplomats are using Western social media to “fact-check” criticism against China
Western platforms are banned in China, but Chinese diplomats feel the need to use fact-checking to deflect criticism.
President Trump’s Social Media censorship executive order
For reference. Presented as-is.
Tone deaf Mark Zuckerberg: “Facebook shouldn’t be the arbiter of truth”
Zuck’s statement goes against everything Facebook is currently doing.
Laura Loomer prepared to take social media censorship case to the Supreme Court after losing appeal
After being banned from every major social platform, Loomer isn’t giving up.
Facebook soft-censors The Babylon Bee, starts forcing users to confirm that they actually want to share posts
The Babylon Bee has had to deal with its content being censored by Facebook several times over the last few years.
Google purges over 8 million negative TikTok app reviews in “corrective action”
Google said the negative reviews not genuine and were “abuse.”
Trump proposes regulating or closing down social media platforms
Trump has made similar fruitless proposals in the past.
Twitter faces backlash after chief “integrity” officer’s anti-Trump past is scrutinized
Users push back as Twitter puts questionable individuals in positions of immense power on the platform.
Twitter starts editorializing President Trump’s tweets and adding fact-checks from CNN
Politicians all over the world lie 24-7. But only one of them is getting fact-checked on Twitter.
India jails those found sharing coronavirus “misinformation” on WhatsApp
Coming to a country near you?
Twitter says it will be making changes after media calls for Trump’s tweets to be censored
Twitter announced the changes hours after a New York Times article asked Twitter to delete President Trump’s tweets about Joe Scarborough.
Some Facebook users find commenting the single word “coronavirus” results in auto-censorship
A weird way of censoring.