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Documents Reveal Government-Backed Censorship Network Involving GEC, USAID, and Private Media Firms
Government-backed censorship tools extended far beyond foreign disinformation, shaping domestic narratives with the help of private media enforcers.
Social Media Fact Checkers Claim Their Work Isn’t Censorship. Here’s Why It Is.
“Fact-checking” isn’t just labeling. It tanks the visibility of posts.
PolitiFact Editor Says People Should Lose Email Accounts Over Harassment
Losing an email account would also lock people out of all of their other online accounts.
Evidence Shows Putting Fact Check Warning on Articles Dramatically Decreases Shares
Merely putting the “fact-checked warning” on a social media post will influence people by discouraging them from sharing it.
Instagram Is Training a “Fact-Checking” AI That Will Suppress “Misinformation”
It’s part of Facebook’s continued efforts to censor information through “fact-checking” in the run up to 2020.
Instagram Will Let 3rd Parties Fact Check Your Memes
The tech giants want to be the sole arbiters of truth.
Journalism Institute Tries to Get 29 Conservative News Websites Blacklisted
Breitbart, Alliance Defending Freedom, and the Washington Examiner are among those named as “unreliable,”
