News Round-Up
30 October 2024
The Saga of the Benin Bronzes Takes a Farcical New Turn
30 October 2024
by Mike Wells
Zuckerberg's confession of censorship under government pressure skips the part where Facebook planned to suppress the Hunter Biden laptop story two months before the New York Post broke it, says Andrew Lowenthal.
What was so startling about Mark Zuckerberg's confession that Facebook was censoring content at the behest of the Biden Administration was not what he admitted but that he admitted it, says Jeffrey Tucker. So, why now?
Mark Zuckerberg has said Facebook and Instagram were wrong to censor posts about Covid during the pandemic and that the company should have fought pressure from the Biden administration.
Meta's new social media app and Twitter rival, Threads, promises a kinder, sanitised experience. But at what cost?
Facebook has been accused by a Conservative MP of "showing its true and ugly colours" and smothering free speech to cosy up to China as it did a U-turn on its ban on posts debating whether Covid-19 could be man-made.
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