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Biden’s laptop and Zuckerberg’s tangle of whispers

28 August 2022

11:22 AM

28 August 2022

11:22 AM

Is it election interference if social media oligarchs in charge of the de facto public forum admit to manipulating algorithms, erasing commentators, suppressing information related to political candidates, and removing news stories critical to the character of a soon-to-be elected President?

What about if those same companies banned a sitting President, effectively silencing democracy?

And what is the public supposed to think if some of these behaviours are not merely the whim of politically interested corporations, but also a not-so-subtle direction from the FBI? That would be the same FBI that went all-in on the Russia Collusion fake news story that endured...

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