Category Archives: Corporate Media

The Power of Censorship: Tiananmen Square Anniversary in Hong Kong

A Picture is worth a thousand words. Twitter and Facebook have produced the same results politically by barring entrance to the public discourse square for half the American population all the while assuring us it’s not censorship.

Who Checks the Fact Checkers?

David Marcus: Nobody is checking the social media fact checkers. It’s time that changed (Fox News)

For most of 2020 the supposed arbiters of truthiness insisted that lab leak stories should not be taken seriously and should be suppressed on social media. Just yesterday Facebook finally lifted is baseless ban of the lab leak theory. The real problem here is not that fact checkers got something wrong, it’s that they have the power to censor what journalism Americans see and consume unilaterally. 

David MArcus