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The BMJ has locked horns with Facebook and the gatekeepers of international fact checking after one of its investigations was wrongly labelled with “missing context” and censored on the world’s largest social network. Rebecca Coombes and Madlen Davies report On 3 November Howard Kaplan, a retired dentist from Israel, posted a link to a BMJ investigation article in a private Facebook group.1 The investigation reported poor clinical trial research practices occurring at Ventavia, a contract research company helping to carry out the main Pfizer covid-19 vaccine trial.2 The article brought in record traffic to bmj.com and was widely shared on Twitter, helping it achieve the second highest “Altmetric” score of all time across all biomedical publications.3 But a week after his posting Kaplan woke up to a message from Facebook (fig 1). Fig 1 Clockwise from top left: Facebook’s “missing context” notice; administrators of a private group were warned of a “partly false” post; Facebook’s warning on Howard Kaplan’s original post; Cochrane’s tweet after being “shadowbanned” by Instagram “The Facebook Thought Police has issued me a dire warning,” he wrote in a new post. “Facebook’s ‘independent fact-checker’ doesn’t like the wording of the article by the BMJ. And if I don’t delete my post, they are threatening to make my posts less visible. Obviously, I will not delete my post . . . If it seems like I’ve disappeared for a while, you’ll know why.”4 Kaplan was not the only Facebook user having problems. Soon, several BMJ readers were alerting the journal to Facebook’s censorship. Over the past two months the journal’s editorial staff have been navigating the opaque appeals process without success, and still today their investigation remains obscured on Facebook. The experience has highlighted serious concerns about the “fact checking” being undertaken by third party …

Recent evidence uncovered in our Missouri v. Biden suit suggests the most egregious, coordinated, massive violation of First Amendment free speech rights by the federal government in U.S. history.

Literally almost anything can be debunked. Debunking is a magic act whose misdirection tricks the magician instead of their audience. It is a form of kabuki portrayed in the authoritative wardrobe of 'doubt', 'skepticism', or 'peer review'. The debunker employs a method of outference in which they raise the specter of (selective) cynicism, and then use 'Occam's Razor' to force the issue to their favorite conclusion. Unlike actual science, debunking is a procedure for methodically discarding evidence that doesn’t support one's narrative - a baseless woo which is ironically afforded immediate acceptance as truth.

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Facebook – a platform that routinely censors posts critical of COVID-19 vaccines – has hired several alumni from Pfizer’s marketing and internal audit teams to lead similar efforts at the social media platform, The National Pulse can reveal. The hires appear to present a conflict of interest for the social media platform, which has come […]

By Lionel Lee, DO, FACOEP “Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press…” The Constitution plainly and […]

The past year has accelerated all kinds of trends that were already moving through our societies. Social atomisation, the decline of the high street and communities, the rise of the nanny state — Covid and lockdown have brought all of these to the fore. Among the most concerning is the rise of Big Tech censorship,

Guest essay by Andrew Lowenthal, expert in digital rights and open technology.

Months before The BMJ released investigation, Facebook emailed the White House they would take action against “true content” on vaccines.

Continuing concerns about the censorship of essentially all voices questioning any aspect pandemic management.

One of the most galling tropes of the UK government Covid response, has been that officialdom has been “following the science” to keep everyone ‘safe’.

A change of course.

A White House email, obtained on behalf of ICAN, shows Facebook, Merck, and the CDC Foundation, whose corporate partners includes Pfizer, have formed an alliance “to use social media and digital platforms to build confidence in and drive uptake of vaccines.” No conflict there.

At a time when forthright social-media posts are slapped with “fact-check” labels, suppressed, or just plain taken down, why are mainstream media companies getting a free pass when they start to question vaccine imperialism? In recent letters to Meta and Twitter, our attorneys have called out the glaring inconsistencies in the way these platforms are applying their “misinformation” policies.