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Fb Suppressed Breitbart, Promoted CNN, Following Election

Instantly following the November 2020 Election, Fb suppressed what it considers “hyperpartisan” data pages, along with Breitbart Information, while promoting what it considers “authoritative” data pages very similar to CNN, in keeping with the New York Occasions.
Immediately following the November 2020 Election, Facebook suppressed what it considers “hyperpartisan” news pages, including Breitbart News, while promoting what it considers “authoritative” news pages such as CNN, according to the New York Times.

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  1. "Facebook has threatened to blacklist the page of conservative comedy duo Kevin Hodge and Keith Hodge, better known as the Hodgetwins, on the same day thatThe New York Timesidentified them among the most successful conservative content creators on the platform". (August 29, 2020)
  2. "The Senate Judiciary Committee announced plans to subpoena Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey after the platform engaged in an unprecedented censorship spree, suspending the account of theNew York Post,and locking the accounts of the Trump campaign as well as White House press secretary Kayleigh McEnany, in the space of 24 hours". (October 15, 2020)
  3. "President Donald Trump tweeted from the official @POTUS account following his permanent ban from Twitter, condemning the company's censorship and signaling that he intends to move to a new social network, or build a replacement. The tweets promptly disappeared from the account". (January 9, 2021)
  4. "The U.S. Supreme Court is considering whether or not to hear a case brought by Laura Loomer and Freedom Watch against Google, Apple, Facebook, and Twitter, alleging that the Masters of the Universe have been discriminating on the basis of viewpoint and coordinating with each other in an anticompetitive manner". (February 16, 2021)
  5. "Facebook fact-checker "Lead Stories" took the social network's system of "fact-checking" to farcical levels earlier this week when it "fact-checked" a critique of itself by the Federalist's Molly Hemingway". (December 9, 2020)
  6. "Senator Bill Hagerty (R-TN) has introduced a bill that takes aim at a key vulnerability of Big Tech their increasing resemblance to common carriers". (April 30, 2021)
  7. "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". (September 26, 2020)
  8. "Facebook founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg at one time expressed concern about the "long-term side effects" of "basically modifying people's DNA and RNA" in a video leaked to Project Veritas". (February 17, 2021)
  9. "U.S. Sen. Roger Wicker (R-MS), ranking member of the Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation, introduced a bill aimed at curbing tech censorship called the PRO-SPEECH Act last week". (June 15, 2021)
  10. "Apple is threatening to ban social media platform Parler from its app store unless it cracks down on constitutionally protected speech that Apple doesn't approve of, a move that would effectively exclude the app from all Apple smartphones". (January 9, 2021)
  11. "The New York Timeshas grudgingly acknowledged the success of right-wing and conservative media on Facebook, worrying that it might indicate a looming Trump victory in November. In Particular, theTimesnotes that Breitbart News posts have been shared 4 million times in the past 30 days, "roughly three times as many as posts from the official pages of every Democratic member of the U.S". (August 28, 2020)
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