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STUDY: CensorTrack Documents Over 800 Cases of Big Tech Censoring COVID-19 Debate
NewsBusters ^ | 2/9/2022 | Joseph Vazquez

Posted on 02/09/2022 8:34:14 AM PST by JV3MRC

Big Tech speech restrictions turned COVID-19 into the most pro-censorship environment in the U.S. at least since World War II. Media Research Center has found more than 800 examples of bans, deleted content, and other speech restrictions related to the virus, as well as to resultant vaccines masking and government policies.

MRC Free Speech America tallied a whopping 808 total cases of COVID-19 censorship across a litany of Big Tech platforms between March 17, 2020, and Feb. 3, 2022, in its unique CensorTrack database. Those included Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, LinkedIn, Google Ads, TikTok and YouTube. The platforms restricted anyone from skeptical epidemiologists to curious scientists to working journalists to concerned lawmakers speaking to constituents.

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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Government; Politics
KEYWORDS: bigtech; blogpimp; censored; covid19; facebook; google; googleads; instagram; linkedin; mediawingofthednc; mrc; partisanmediashill; partisanmediashills; ronklain; tiktok; twitter; youtube

1 posted on 02/09/2022 8:34:14 AM PST by JV3MRC
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To: JV3MRC

Completely expected.


2 posted on 02/09/2022 8:44:06 AM PST by New Perspective (#NotMyPresident -Proud father of a son with DS & fighting to keep him off biden's death panels.)
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To: JV3MRC

not counting spiked stories either...


3 posted on 02/09/2022 8:45:10 AM PST by Chode (there is no fall back position, there's no rally point, there is no LZ... we're on our own. #FJB)
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To: JV3MRC

“800”


So they hired a blind intern to throw darts?

/s

I assure you that they deployed an algorithm just for little ol me before I bailed, meaning that at a minimum I was one of the several tens of millions in the US alone that they missed.


4 posted on 02/09/2022 12:30:33 PM PST by logi_cal869 (-cynicus the "concern troll" a/o 10/03/2018 /!i!! &@$%&*(@ -)
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