Facebook was censoring comments on Mark Zuckerberg’s “free speech” livestream

Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg's presentation about "the dangers of censorship" was accompanied by a practical demonstration of - the dangers of censorship.

Zuckerberg's speech at Georgetown University, live-streamed on Facebook, received a deluge of overwhelmingly positive comments and reactions - so many, in fact, that it appears to have raised suspicions of foul play.

The conspicuous absence of negative reactions to the speech in the comments to the live stream warranted reaching out to the company for clarification.

And the answer is that Facebook uses "ranking signals" to derank content that it doesn't like - or, as the company's spokesperson Tucker Bonds said, content of "low quality."

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