3 ms·
According to Zuckerberg himself the story was censored for a week (https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-62688532 https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-62
by at-w 4y ago
According to Zuckerberg himself the story was censored for a week (https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-62688532 https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-62688532). Meanwhile, Twitter banned any sharing of the article and the entire New York Post's account for 16 days. The US anti-war movement was explicitly, objectively supported by the Soviets at a time when they were a likely nuclear threat to the United States and the rest of the Western world (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soviet_influence_on_the_peace_movement#:~:text=Russian%20GRU%20defector%20Stanislav%20Lunev,the%20VietCong%2C%20although%20he%20does https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soviet_influence_on_the_peace_...). That doesn't mean it's acceptable to go and ban anti-war rallies, or rallies that "look like" them and claim it's okay because you only did so for a few weeks so it's all fine.
Regardless, the issue here is less about partisan social media censorship and more to do with journalists, who Wikipedia relies on to provide factual reporting of all significant news, showing how readily they would support censorship and ignoring a story based on its political impact.
- jjeaff 4y agoIt should also be noted that the NY Post was one of several media outlets the hard drive data was pitched to by Giuliani. They were offered printouts of select data and no access to a clone of the hard drive in question or the laptop itself. The NY Post was the only outlet willing to take the bait with those restrictions, and I don't blame them. I'll grant you that many stories never receive the type of scrutiny that this story did by social media companies, but given the factors surrounding it, I don't necessarily fault the decision. I also recently learned that the computer shop owner that ended up with the laptop is legally blind. Seems like a convenient place to drop off a stolen and possibly altered laptop.