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Ohioboy

(3,222 posts)
Fri Nov 13, 2020, 04:58 PM Nov 2020

Question about right wing misinformation...

I keep hearing right- wingers complaining that their posts are getting censored on facebook. Isn't it just that facebook is tagging the certain posts so as to warn against "possibly misleading" material? That's not censorship in my book, it's warning people that there is a lot of BS out there and to beware.

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mr_lebowski

(33,643 posts)
1. Either they're advocating violence in some form or making threatening sounding posts ...
Fri Nov 13, 2020, 05:05 PM
Nov 2020

OR posting memes that are obviously bullshit/have been debunked.

FB doesn't do much censoring really. Too little IMHO.

Nobody has a 'right' to widely spread disinformation on the forums of a private company like Facebook. That's not 'censorship'.

Just like it's not 'censorship' when your local paper doesn't print your LTTE.

Ohioboy

(3,222 posts)
2. That's what I thought
Fri Nov 13, 2020, 05:18 PM
Nov 2020

I've seen the tags indicating that certain posts contain information that is "in dispute", but there isn't any censoring going on. Right-wingers sometimes complain about things that aren't even happening to them. They are the true snowflakes in this world, always the victims. As it is, our nation can't even move on from a national election because the head snowflake is having a sad over not winning. Just needed to rant a little. Thanks.

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