Fauci’s direct line to Zuck proves Facebook COVID censorship was all about power, not public health

Zuckerberg just lately expressed remorse for censoring The Submit's reporting on Hunter Biden.

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The ugly image of collusion between the feds and social media platforms round COVID simply bought a complete lot uglier.

Latest filingsfrom a lawsuit by the Louisiana and Missouri attorneys normal in opposition to the Biden administrationreveal that Fb head Mark Zuckerberg gave Dr. Anthony Fauci his private telephone quantity shortly earlier than the platform began to crack down on alleged COVID misinformation. 

Is this how The Submit — and plenty of others — bought banned, throttled or labeled as purveyors of misinformation for merely elevating the chance (as we did in a prescient February 2020 op-ed) that COVID originated from an unintended lab-leak in Wuhan? 

After all federal and state well being businesses have the correct to take to social media to name out precise errors and interact in arguments (even shrill and tendentious ones). 

However leveraging state energy and comfortable relationships with Large Tech to suppress tales which may implicate muck-a-mucks like Fauci for spectacularly unhealthy judgment (on this case, championing funding for viral gain-of-function analysis in China) is deeply unethical. 

Dr. Anthony Fauci introduced that he can be stepping down in December.

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Recall that Fb — having left its ban on such posts in place for months — immediately modified its thoughts on the problem when the Biden administration introduced it was investigating the potential of such a leak. Recall, too, that the paperwork present Fauci was solely one of some 32 federal officers who might need been in contact with Fb about managing the COVID narrative.  

That the ban was nakedly political in nature was obvious from the beginning; the abrupt reversal solely made it much more blindingly apparent. 

These new revelations about Fauci’s direct line to the person steering Fb show past a doubt that efforts to stamp down the lab-leak concept had nothing in any respect to do with public well being or security — and the whole lot to do with back-channel offers among the many elite.