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How Facebook Uses ‘Fact-Checking’ to Suppress Scientific Truth
New York Post ^ | May 18, 2021 | John Tierney

Posted on 05/18/2021 10:26:06 AM PDT by nickcarraway

At the end of a recent 800-meter race in Oregon, a high-school runner named Maggie Williams got dizzy, passed out and landed face-first just beyond the finish line. She and her coach blamed her collapse on a deficit of oxygen due to the mask she’d been forced to wear, and state officials responded to the public outcry by easing their requirements for masks during athletic events.

But long before the pandemic began, scientists had repeatedly found that wearing a mask could lead to oxygen deprivation. Why had this risk been ignored?

One reason is that a new breed of censors has been stifling scientific debate about masks on social-media platforms. When Scott Atlas, a member of the Trump White House’s coronavirus task force, questioned the efficacy of masks last year, Twitter removed his tweet. When eminent scientists from Stanford and Harvard recently told Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis that children should not be forced to wear masks, YouTube removed their video discussion from its platform. These acts of censorship were widely denounced, but the social-media science police remain undeterred, as I discovered when I recently wrote about the harms to children from wearing masks.

(Excerpt) Read more at nypost.com ...


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Culture/Society; Extended News; News/Current Events; US: Florida; US: New York; US: Oregon
KEYWORDS: facebook; florida; johntierney; maggiewilliams; mediawingofthednc; newyork; newyorkpost; oregon; partisanmediashill; partisanmediashills; rondesantis; scottatlas; twitter
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1 posted on 05/18/2021 10:26:06 AM PDT by nickcarraway
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2 posted on 05/18/2021 10:35:46 AM PDT by 2CAVTrooper (One Nation, Under Fraud Completely Visible, With Spying and Lying Too All.)
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To: nickcarraway

Fear
Obey
Submit


3 posted on 05/18/2021 10:39:30 AM PDT by MrBambaLaMamba (Kickbacks and graft for oligarchs, free crack and hookers for oligarch's children is infrastructure )
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To: nickcarraway

Revenge of the people with worthless degrees.


4 posted on 05/18/2021 10:42:41 AM PDT by MikeHu
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To: nickcarraway

I posted this on FB.

Can’t wait until they fact check it.


5 posted on 05/18/2021 10:48:54 AM PDT by Salamander (Salamander has barbaric tendencies.../Gundog)
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To: 2CAVTrooper

Yes, skidMark Zuckerberg’s troops are like that. Thought burners. Don’t think it. Don’t speak...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TR3Vdo5etCQ

No Doubt


6 posted on 05/18/2021 11:05:36 AM PDT by PGalt (Past Peak Civilization?)
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To: PGalt

On facist book I posted : stupid Muslims are killing their own children...

Boom, 7 day suspension...at least it wasn’t 30 days like the last time


7 posted on 05/18/2021 11:13:00 AM PDT by South Dakota (Patriotism is the new terrorism)
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To: Salamander

So did I!


8 posted on 05/18/2021 11:20:13 AM PDT by Valpal1
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To: MikeHu
Revenge of the people with worthless degrees.

Only in a Socialist world could these people be relevant
9 posted on 05/18/2021 11:24:34 AM PDT by Jan_Sobieski (Sanctification)
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To: Valpal1

Did you also enjoy poking things with sticks, as a kid?

:D


10 posted on 05/18/2021 11:47:15 AM PDT by Salamander (Salamander has barbaric tendencies.../Gundog)
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To: Salamander

I do get more chores done from FB jail.


11 posted on 05/18/2021 11:59:28 AM PDT by Valpal1
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To: Valpal1

This is why I have a backup FB account.

;D


12 posted on 05/18/2021 12:01:37 PM PDT by Salamander (Salamander has barbaric tendencies.../Gundog)
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To: South Dakota

I’m in a weird 90 day lockdown where I can’t “go live” or “sell”.

Yeah.

That really tamed me.

;D


13 posted on 05/18/2021 12:03:18 PM PDT by Salamander (Salamander has barbaric tendencies.../Gundog)
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To: 2CAVTrooper

It’s gone beyond this. Facebook is censoring an energy consultancy here in Houston simply for quoting articles from the Wall Street Journal and Financial Times. Simply because the Green Agenda is not followed 100%.


14 posted on 05/18/2021 12:04:17 PM PDT by Fred Hayek (Antifa=BLM=RevCom=CPUSA = CCP=Democratic Party )
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To: South Dakota

Christians are killing their own children. Have you see the abortion rate:m


15 posted on 05/18/2021 12:14:30 PM PDT by nickcarraway
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To: AdmSmith; AnonymousConservative; Arthur Wildfire! March; Berosus; Bockscar; cardinal4; ColdOne; ...
Fascistbook update.

16 posted on 05/18/2021 12:15:12 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (Imagine an imaginary menagerie manager imagining managing an imaginary menagerie.)
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To: PGalt

Suckerberg was born in 1984.


17 posted on 05/18/2021 12:23:58 PM PDT by Auslander154 ("Political correctness does not legislate tolerance; it only organizes hatred." Jacques Barzun)
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didn’t know that. thanks. Isn’t it ironic?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jne9t8sHpUc


18 posted on 05/18/2021 2:05:08 PM PDT by PGalt (Past Peak Civilization?)
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To: Fred Hayek

Its been all out war between me and the fascistbook brown shirts.

It started with me posting the meme of
Goebbels and zuckerburg with the caption “nazis called it control of information, today they call it fact checking”

Got 30 days, then two days later they upped it to 60 for the same post. I contested it, and posted that all of them can be charged under 18 USC 2385 Advocating overthrow of Government for their role in overthrowing a duly elected President.

Im now under a “warning” 🙄


19 posted on 05/18/2021 2:10:33 PM PDT by 2CAVTrooper (One Nation, Under Fraud Completely Visible, With Spying and Lying Too All.)
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To: Twotone; VeryFRank; Clinging Bitterly; Rio; aimhigh; Hieronymus; bray; 1malumprohibitum; ...
If you would like more information about what’s happening in Oregon, please FReepmail me. Please send me your name by FReepmail if you want to be on this list.
20 posted on 05/19/2021 5:06:55 AM PDT by Twotone (While one may vote oneself into socialism one has to shoot oneself out of it.)
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