Facebook ‘looking into’ hiding of posts calling for PM’s resignation in India
The way these companies openly engage in politically biased publishing and selective enforcement in the USA made this kind of thing inevitable.<p>During this past election the New York Post was banned because of a story that painted candidate Biden&#x27;s son in a poor light, and nearly everyone who works in these companies wanted candidate Biden to win so they used their positions to protect his image, knowing that there would be no real consequences for them.<p>Now we have a crisis in my country and we are unable to criticize the government publicly because our posts can just be suppressed on a whim. We know all about the coveted &quot;muh next billion users&quot; meme that these companies obsess over - some of you probably hear about it at work all the time. They aren&#x27;t going to have the cooperation of the government unless they do as they&#x27;re told.<p>Just like with the NY Post incident, some song and dance excuse will be concocted about this and everyone will blindly accept it, and expect the rest of us to go along with it like fools, when it&#x27;s pretty obvious what is happening here. This has even been published in the news a few months ago and the country&#x27;s policy head got caught telling employees that they had to do their moderating duties in a partisan way so that it did not &quot;damage the company&#x27;s business prospects in the country&quot;, and had to resign (link below). Now we are supposed to believe that this was her personal position and literally zero people in company leadership had the same idea. (<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.bbc.com&#x2F;news&#x2F;world-asia-india-54715995" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.bbc.com&#x2F;news&#x2F;world-asia-india-54715995</a>)<p>Next year is a Midterm election in the USA, so I fully expect more coincidental and highly unusual yet conveniently partisan stories like this coming up where some scandal gets buried and some out of context quote gets amplified. We have seen whistleblowers from Facebook talking about features like &quot;deboost&quot; being employed in a partisan manner. By then everyone would have forgotten about this and I&#x27;ll be seeing &quot;boosted&quot; clips from all the late night TV &quot;comedy&quot; propagandists talking about some obscure senate or house seat in which the fate of the world hangs in the balance lest the evil red party take control. Pathetic.