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More horse shit dumbassery from the Right.Press Secretary admits White House working with Facebook on removing claimed misinformation which violates 1st Amendment. First it's racist policies, now government suppressing free speech.
Mike Lee: White House colluding with Facebook 'looks like First Amendment violation'
Sen. Mike Lee, R-Utah, on “America's Newsroom” Friday slammed the White House for flagging Facebook posts, claiming it "looks like a First Amendment violation.”www.foxnews.com
When folks insist on getting their "news" from social media they are already in trouble as they clearly do not understand that all social media does with its algorithms is push at you the stuff you keep clicking on. THAT IS NOT NEWS. That is your own biases, filtered and shoved back at you. Social media is not a news source no matter how much some Americans want it to be.
That of course opens the door for the Donald Trumps, Tucker Carlson's, Ron Johnsons and the propagandists that support their efforts with their keystrokes to just inundate the audience with bullshit.
Its really pretty simple. All you need to draw massive attention on the Internet is to be provocative. All you need to be provocative is a good wordsmith. That is an English major for God sake. That is all you need. They can pump out provocative bullshit orders of magnitude faster than it would take an expert like a virologist or an epidemiologist to actually counter that crap. The expert HAS to counter with actual science, not bullshit. That is also why the social media giant claims that the Biden administration is being "so unfair" to them is also bullshit. They know how their algorithms work.
Combine the simple fact that all you need to attract clicks and likes in the first place is to be provocative with those algorithms and you have a ready made platform designed to misinform and that is the Biden administration's complaint. All they are asking the social media giants to do is not cut their algorithms loose on that provocative COVID vaccine crap. Nobody is really asking them to stop users from posting what they want to post as long as it is not inherently hateful or violent. They are being asking to stop feeding it to a willing and frankly dumb as a rock audience.
As for what to do about the Faux entertainers like Tucker and the rest of them pumping out straw man arguments claiming that the government'e efforts to get people to get vaccinated are the equivalent of FORCING people to get vaccinated, I don't have an answer for that one. The government is not doing anything more than an ad executive would do. Have we suddenly decided to be so SOCIALISTIC that we want to string up ad execs now. Sort of an odd position for Faux News to put itself in.