Facebook Censors Reports Linking Biden to Nord Stream Attack

Social media giant Facebook is censoring reports that link Democrat President Joe Bidenโ€™s administration to last yearโ€™s sabotage attack that destroyed the Nord Stream pipelines in Europe.

The governments of multiple nations concluded in their investigations that the pipelines, that pump natural gas from Russia to Europe, were deliberately destroyed by underwater explosions.

Earlier this year, Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative journalist Seymour Hersh published a report asserting that the pipelines were destroyed by the U.S. government as part of a covert operation.

According to Hersh, the operation was led by the Biden admin and organized with the aid of the Norwegian government, the Norwegian Secret Service, and the Navy.

However, Facebook is now censoring the story from the renowned reporter and, instead, directs users to an article by unknown โ€œfact-checkersโ€ that disputes Hershโ€™s bombshell reporting.

Journalist Michael Shellenberger first noticed the issue when he tried to post Hershโ€™s article on Facebook.

When Shellenberger tried to share the report with his followers, the social media giant slapped a warning label on the link.

The Facebook label warns users: โ€œFalse information. Checked by independent fact-checkers.โ€

Yet, the so-called โ€œfact-checkersโ€ in question arenโ€™t independent at all, however.

As Shellenbergerย notes, โ€œHersh is infinitely more independent than Facebookโ€™s Norwegian fact-checker.

โ€œThe fact-checking organization is a partnership with a Norwegian government-owned media company, NRK, which has a direct self-interest in censoring the story.โ€

Shellenberger posted a video to Twitter to demonstrate what happens when a person tries to share the report from Hersh.

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By censoring the article with a dubious โ€œfact check,โ€ Facebook is preventing it from reaching a much wider audience.

When an article is slapped with a โ€œfact check,โ€ it is covered with a warning label buried in Facebookโ€™s News Feed algorithm.

Despite Hersh being far more qualified than the failed journalists who resort to โ€œfact-checkingโ€ other reporters, his article is automatically overruled on Facebook by the โ€œfact-check.โ€

If someone shares an article deemed โ€œfalseโ€ by Facebookโ€™s faceless โ€œfact checkers,โ€ their friends and followers will likely never see it.

This is yet another example of how the โ€œfact-checker industrial complexโ€ serves to censor legitimate information at the behest of governments by posing as an independent, non-bias actor.

In reality, โ€œfact checkersโ€ are merely a front for state censorship control.

Several years ago, in defense of its โ€œfact-checkingโ€ process, Facebook insisted that it cannot act as โ€œthe arbiter of the truthโ€ for any contentious issue.

Nevertheless, this claim has now been proven dishonest once again.

โ€œWhether Hersh is wrong or right, his reporting should be debated publicly, not censored,โ€ Shellenberger asserted on Twitter.

โ€œFacebookโ€™s actions are antithetical to Americaโ€™s tradition of free and open debate and its rejection of secretive, authoritarian censorship.

โ€œThe American people have given Facebook broad liability protections under Section 230 that other media companies donโ€™t get.

โ€œAnd yet Facebook is acting like a media company, not a platform.

โ€œAs such, Facebook is putting its Section 230 protection at risk.

โ€œAnd censoring Hersh may only attract more attention to it.โ€

READ MORE: Facebook Censors Kari Lake, She Fires Back: โ€˜Take Your Best Shot, Zuckerberg โ€“ You Donโ€™t Scare Meโ€™

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