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Facebook and Twitter Need a Spanking

Full Disclosure

I don’t own Facebook or Twitter stock. While I use both companies to deliver information about Yahweh and Israel, SnyderTalk content, and other things of interest, I refuse to own part of either firm regardless of their potential profitability. Below are my concerns:

Both companies are contributing to the belief that all opinions matter and that opinions matter equally. That’s ridiculous.
Both companies are positioning themselves to become arbiters of right and wrong. That’s absurd.
The potential damage that both companies can do to our country and to the world is incalculable.

I have problems with Google for the same reasons, and I don’t own Alphabet stock. I don’t address Google in this SnyderTalk editorial.

The Issue

Facebook and Twitter removed video content about Covid-19 from their platforms that President Trump posted. Facebook said, “This video includes false claims that a group of people is immune from COVID-19 which is a violation of our policies around harmful COVID misinformation.” Twitter said essentially the same thing.

Covid-19 has been hyped beyond belief. People with political agendas and monetary interests have a great deal to gain or lose based on the way Covid-19 cases are counted, the number of deaths attributed to Covid-19, the way data is interpreted and communicated, etc., etc., etc.

We know that there has been a lot of fraudulent data presented about the disease and that the cost to the American people is staggering.

See “Americans lost $77 million to Covid-19 fraud — and that’s just the ‘tip of the iceberg’”.

Additionally, some very wealthy people and “health experts” have monetary interests in the creation, manufacture, and sale of a vaccine for Covid-19 and other products that are supposed to treat the disease. Their opinions are being given far too much weight even though their opinions haven’t been examined carefully and objectively.

Facebook and Twitter have contributed immeasurably to the problem, because they think they are uniquely qualified to draw the correct conclusions. That’s presumptuous and dangerous.

Facebook’s and Twitter’s claims that President Trump’s video violates their companies’ policies is silly. In the video, the president communicated his informed opinion about Covid-19. He has been briefed on the disease by the best minds in the country for months. If anyone is uniquely qualified to speak on the issue, it’s President Trump. Neither Facebook nor Twitter has any right to censure the president in any way.

See “Democrats and Their Media Mouthpieces are Sorry Human Beings“.

Stated simply, we can’t trust the data on Covid-19 that we are being spoon-fed by the “scientific community” and the media, and we can’t trust Facebook and Twitter to decide what is right and what is wrong.

The Video in Question

Background Information

See “Facebook removes Trump post over coronavirus misinformation”:

“This video includes false claims that a group of people is immune from COVID-19 which is a violation of our policies around harmful COVID misinformation,” a Facebook spokesperson said.

Facebook removed a video post from President Donald Trump’s personal page Wednesday that included a segment from a Fox News interview in which he falsely said children are “almost immune” to COVID-19, the disease caused by the coronavirus.

“This video includes false claims that a group of people is immune from COVID-19 which is a violation of our policies around harmful COVID misinformation,” said Andy Stone, a Facebook policy spokesperson.

Twitter also removed the video from its platform on Wednesday night after it was tweeted by the Trump campaign, saying the video was “in violation of the Twitter Rules on COVID-19 misinformation.”

In the interview, which aired Wednesday morning, Trump said children should return to school because they are “almost immune” or “virtually immune” to the disease. While they are less vulnerable, children can, in fact, transmit the disease to others, and some children have died from it.

See “Trump campaign fires back at Facebook removal of Trump post: ‘Flagrant bias’”:

President Trump’s reelection campaign accused Facebook of displaying “flagrant bias” against the president after the social media platform removed a post from his official page on Wednesday.

The post that was removed included a video of Trump’s interview on “Fox & Friends” from earlier in the day in which he said young people are “almost immune” to the coronavirus. Facebook said the video was removed because it included “false claims.”

The Trump campaign pushed back on Facebook’s assessment, denying that what the president said was factually wrong.

“The President was stating a fact that children are less susceptible to the coronavirus,” Trump campaign deputy national press secretary Courtney Parella said in a statement. “Another day, another display of Silicon Valley’s flagrant bias against this President, where the rules are only enforced in one direction. Social media companies are not the arbiters of truth.”

Facebook has previously removed Trump campaign advertisements, but Wednesday is the first time the company has removed a post from the president’s page concerning COVID-19.

Conclusion

Facebook and Twitter are begging for a spanking. I hope President Trump gives them what they deserve.

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