Who’s Controlling the Information You Get Online?
Zuckerberg just emptied out the whole can of beans. Prior to the 2020 election, the FBI and the Justice Department intimidated Facebook into flagging scientific studies whose results were critical of the COVID vaccines as fake news and burying news negative to President Biden (including Hunter’s laptop story and that the president’s son was paid tens of millions of dollars by Ukraine, Russia, and China to influence his father during Obama’s tenure).
If you limit your news to the establishment press, you may have missed all that. But it’s true and it’s documented and eventually it will be accepted as true, as other social media insiders feel free to tell the truth and more of the facts from the X files are reported on.
But the gaslighting and censorship go beyond the big social media forums. Senior executives at Google are beginning to talk about the bias built into the search engine’s algorithms. And most recently, Wikipedia co-founder Dr. Larry Sanger complained about the drift towards the left in the platform’s information gathering and fact checking. He lamented that Wikipedia, which once “allowed people to work together and represent a global array of perspectives on every topic” now just represents the establishment’s point of view.
In the last four or five years, I’ve noticed this bias and noted that it’s been getting worse. I have noticed it this past year with Wikipedia, too. Data and stories that I found and read in the past are impossible to locate, and some of Wikipedia’s content is starting to sound like it’s been filtered through a DEI screen.
Read more from Dr. Sanger here.