The “independent fact-checkers” of my article are affiliated with a nonprofit group called Science Feedback, which has partnered with Facebook in what it calls a “fight against misinformation.” The group describes itself as “nonpartisan,” a claim that I would label “Mostly False” after studying dozens of its fact-checks enforcing progressive orthodoxy on climate change and public health. Facebook uses independent fact-checkers to flag articles with “false information.” OLIVIER DOULIERY/AFP via Getty Images Facebook refused to remove the label, which still appears whenever the article is shared, but at least we got an inside look at the tactics that social-media companies and progressive groups use to distort science and public policy. Checked by independent fact-checkers.” City Journal appealed the ruling, a process that turned out to be both futile and revealing. MANDEL NGAN/AFP via Getty Imagesįacebook promptly slapped a label on the article: “Partly False Information. Scott Atlas had a tweet removed that questioned the efficacy of masks against COVID-19. These acts of censorship were widely denounced, but the social-media science police remain undeterred, as I discovered when I recently wrote about the harms to children from wearing masks. Ron DeSantis that children should not be forced to wear masks, YouTube removed their video discussion from its platform. When eminent scientists from Stanford and Harvard recently told Florida Gov. When Scott Atlas, a member of the Trump White House’s coronavirus task force, questioned the efficacy of masks last year, Twitter removed his tweet. One reason is that a new breed of censors has been stifling scientific debate about masks on social-media platforms.

She and her coach blamed her collapse on a deficit of oxygen due to the mask she’d been forced to wear, and state officials responded to the public outcry by easing their requirements for masks during athletic events.īut long before the pandemic began, scientists had repeatedly found that wearing a mask could lead to oxygen deprivation. How to end Big Tech censorship of free speechĪt the end of a recent 800-meter race in Oregon, a high-school runner named Maggie Williams got dizzy, passed out and landed face-first just beyond the finish line.

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