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The issue is that the US has not officially selected a President yet.

So Facebook, Twitter etc are being prudent and not allowing misinformation until that is the case. And I've yet to see any fraud analysis that is coming from reputable sources i.e. not Gateway Pundit or 4chan so it makes sense to err on the side of caution.



> So Facebook, Twitter etc are being prudent and not allowing misinformation

Do these censors have the means to determine what is and is not "misinformation"?

Do we have comprehensive insight into to what volume and types of censorship are (or are not) happening behind closed doors at the various social media companies?

> And I've yet to see any fraud analysis that is coming from reputable sources i.e. not Gateway Pundit or 4chan

Do we have comprehensive insight into to what volume and types of censorship are (or are not) happening behind closed doors at the various social media companies?


Facebook's process is pretty transparent and clear.

They rely on independent fact checkers e.g. AP to determine what is true or not. And they regularly publish on the volumes and types of content they are removing:

https://about.fb.com/news/2020/10/removing-coordinated-inaut...

Twitter is definitely less transparent but also less severe since they don't have the concepts of Pages or Groups.




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