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I just wrote a piece on this. One paragraph of subpoenaed information tells us everything we need to know about how endemic Censorship is on Facebook and how our government wields its giant stick to produce this result.

The One Paragraph that Tells Us Everything …

Facebook employee (name redacted for some reason) - July 16, 2021:

“And we attack virality aspect through feed demotions. We remove content that can lead to imminent physical harm. For content that doesn’t meet that threshold, we instituted borderline demotions. For example, someone sharing negative side effect posts. Similarly, posts questioning whether you get a vaccine under a mandate, whether it’s government overreach. We demote those. That’s not false information but it leads to a vaccine negative environment. When it comes to looking at COVID misinformation, it’s a different approach. What we normally do is just remove or leave to fact checkers. Here, we introduced a middle ground.”

What follows is my sentence-by-sentence parsing of information one can glean from this one stunning paragraph: 

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