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#350: When the Government Yells at Social Media

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Stanford Researched Content Moderation at the White House Request

The judge says that the White House quote accused Facebook of causing political violence by failing to censor false covert 19 claims. It's cited one official actually our friend the swearing power trip guy in an email made a passing reference to a Wall Street Journal article about how Facebook was studying political violence spurred by Facebook groups. He just put words in her mouth having her say get around the First Amendment. Unbelievable. The kind of thing that really bad plaintiff's lawyers will put in a brief and risk getting sanctioned for normally.

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