Posted on 09/23/2022 6:33:40 AM PDT by Red Badger
Groups with over 100,000 followers shut down.
Editor’s Commentary: Last month, we saw a loosening of restrictions by Big Tech surrounding the Covid-19 injections. Even corporate media started talking a bit about inefficacy and adverse reactions. But that was last month, and by the middle of this month they were reengaging in their censorship and suppression agenda.
Our brief holiday during which I was able to say, “The jabs kill,” without being banned by Big Tech is over. Now, they apparently have received a clarifying memo that says the truth needs to be bottled up and buried in the backyard.
They’re even going after carrots now. On today’s episode of The JD Rucker Show, I broke down an article by Didi Rankovic:
Facebook Deletes Group That Used Carrot Emojis as Code Words for the “Vaccine” After BBC Complains
After the War on Memes, the War on Emojis seems to be upon us. Leading the charge for now is Facebook, and the BBC.
The latter has been flagging Facebook groups that use the carrot emoji as “code” to represent the word “(Covid) vaccine,” in the context of posting testimonies about alleged harm from these vaccines. And the emoji is apparently used in a bid to avoid widespread censorship of the topic on the giant platform.
Facebook has responded, the BBC suggests, by removing several groups with hundreds of thousands of members after the media outlet reported them. But, the BBC is still on the case and is reporting that “the groups have since re-appeared in our searches.”
One of the large groups targeted by the broadcaster was formed three years ago as a way to share funny content but has recently put more focus on the vaccine.
Yet another with a quarter million members instructed them to use code words rather than “Covid, vaccine, booster” – and even in stating these rules, had to resort to referring to “c-word, v-word and b-word” – aware that Facebook’s automated censorship system deletes any form of Covid vaccine skepticism.
But the BBC was there as a “human moderator” for the giant, and Qatar’s Hamad Bin Khalifa University associate professor Marc Owen-Jones also played a role in identifying that something “very odd” was happening in a Facebook group they got invited to.
In it, people were sharing stories about alleged Covid vaccine victims that they knew, but instead of using the word “vaccine,” they went for the carrot emoji. Eventually, the professor figured it out, tweeting that this was “presumably to evade censorship” and to “evade, or apparently evade” Facebook’s “fake news” algorithms.
It is not “fake news” per se that the vaccine can cause harm, as there are documented cases; however, the BBC reporting suggests that the stories shared on the affected groups were “unverified claims.”
Not that everything posted on Facebook has to be a “verified claim,” but the giant said these groups were deleted because they violated its “harmful misinformation policy.”
Facebook added: “We continue to work closely with public health experts and the UK government to further tackle Covid vaccine misinformation.”
And, apparently, they also work with mainstream media.
Article cross-posted from Reclaim The Net.
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Reminds me of a joke:
What are the three branches of the US government.
Big Tech, Pedophiles, and Media.
Facebook and the other social media are being used for the purpose of suppressing heretical thoughts and promoting party-approved thinking. The government pushes them to control thoughts and in turn gives them immunity from prosecution for the fact that they violate the Constitutional right to freedom of thought and expression.
Orwell would have been surprised at how far it has gone.
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The bent carrot emoji is code for Bill Clinton.
Orange vegetable bad.
Americans are not allowed to say what they want to say.
So we speak of carrots.
We say “Let’s Go Brandon.”
And now we cannot speak of carrots or Brandon.
This country is lost.
Yep. Look up “Died Suddenly News” on Facebook. Heart breaking stories, and they’ve had to drop the carrot emoji but it’s very obvious what’s being talked about.
Well, we could replace the carrot with a photo of Hunter Biden.... oh wait they already censor Hunter.... never mind.....
I am on a social media group that is anti vax.
Instead of a carrot. They call it a “cupcake”.
I’ve seen a lot of those before.
All it ends up showing, is “US” - not the actual flag - when I’ve copied & pasted them.... :(
🇺🇸You mean like this one that’s on my emoji keyboard on my iPad?
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