Date: January 8, 2025Author: Editor, cairnsnews 9 Comments
MARK Zuckerberg, the owner of Facebook, has made a spectacular backdown on the platform’s notorious censorship (aka fact-checking) system, but RFK Jnr wants to see him follow through and restore the pages of Childrens Health Defense, the organisation that exposes vaccine harm to children.
Zuckerberg announced he would remove the platform’s “fact checking” operation, apparently in response to a meeting with President-elect Donald Trump at Mar a Lago and a review of company content operations.
Zuckerberg owned up to the notoriously biased fact-checking operation that would see people frequently banned for posting controversial topics or viewpoints. He has instead opted for the X-style community notes service where people can comment and offer corrections.
In a post on X, Children’s Health Defense said less than 24 hours after it asked the US Supreme Court to hear a censorship lawsuit against Facebook, “Zuckerburg has apparently become a free speech proponent”.
“We appreciate Zuckerburg’s sudden moment of clarity regarding our fundamental right to engage in free speech, but we will continue to hold Facebook accountable until their actions match their words.
“Until Facebook restores all of our accounts, they are still engaging in censorship. It’s not enough for Facebook to create a new path forward, they must also fix what they’ve broken,” the organisation announced.
While social media users everywhere are welcoming the news, the spokeswoman for The Greens, Senator Sarah Hanson-Young, told the ABC it was all a bad idea. The clueless, out-of-touch senator whined that it represented an attack on “community standards”.
“Mr Zuckerberg’s decision is all about maximising the profits of Meta his profits at the expense of community safety and human decency,” Hanson-Young said.
In reality the Greens senator knows that postings by Greens, anti-carbon cultists and climate alarmists generate very negative public responses. The sad fact for Senator Hanson Young is that a large section of the public simply does not buy the green propaganda fed to us almost daily by mainstream media.
Australian Associated Press told the New Daily its fact-checking agency AAP FactCheck’s contract with Meta was not affected by the US decision and its work would continue in 2025.
News agencies like AAP, AP, Reuters and AFP, are notorious “news agenda setters”. These agencies daily send out alerts to other media outlets informing them of the day’s events such as media conferences by politicians or other prominent figures.
They in turn are used by big business and various global organisations such as UN environmental agencies and foundations to spread climate change propaganda across multiple news outlets. This system however, faced serious challenges from the internet and social media, hence the rise of news agency “fact-checkers”.
While fact-checkers often do correct false information, it is often selective fact checking. For instance, climate alarmism is never fact-checked. Nor were the claims made by pharmaceutical companies and medical agencies like the WHO about the supposed safety and efficiency of mRNA injections.
An example of biased fact-checking is the ABC-RMIT Fact Check report on the Australian and global so-called “climate sceptic” movement and their petition to the UN Secretary General rejecting climate alarmism.
The ABC-RMIT report goes into great detail about the backgrounds of the main supporters, casting a strongly critical eye on the academic or otherwise background of those people and whether or not they qualify as “climate scientists”.
Where the so-called fact-checking report failed spectacularly was that it relied on the claims of six academically indentured climate scientists to refute the main arguments of the climate sceptics.
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