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Facebook Censors Tucker Carlson for 'False News'

Facebook has restricted the page of Tucker Carlson, the most popular cable news host in the country, smearing the Fox News host as sharing false news.

Carlson posted a picture of a message his page received from Facebook, informing the owners that the page now has reduced distribution and other restrictions because of repeated sharing of false news.

Facebook did not specify in its message what the alleged false news consisted of, or whether the restrictions would be lifted before the election.

This comes amid growing pressure on Facebook from the corporate media, which alleges that conservative media dominates the platform.

While Mark Zuckerberg has previously sought to present himself to the public as a defender of political speech, his platform previously censored an ad from the Trump campaign that condemned the violent Antifa movement.

Earlier in the year, the platform scrubbed any news reporting that mentioned the name of the alleged Ukraine whistleblower, Eric Ciaramella.

More recently, it censored a viral Breitbart News stream of a press conference of frontline doctors discussing the COVID pandemic.

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