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Part Two: Mark Zuckerberg Should Be On Trial For Crimes Against Humanity

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Is Facebook a Guardian of Free Speech?

Mark Zuckerberg is on record declaring that facebook is a guardian of free speech, which is one of the things he cited when he noted that he was refusing to fact check political ads in 20 20 yo. The algorithm sees if you're posting a thousand times a week instead of 50, it likes that engagement because engagement meeds money. And so it prioritizes your content over the content of some one who posts less often. This means that a bunch of networks of russian bots and hyperat will always be more influential than local journalists and reporters who are trying to bring out factorally based information. Because it's better for facebook for a stream of lies to spread on their platform than a smaller

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