Michale Shellenberger, a Twitter Files journalist who testified before Congress, recently went to Twitter to detail yet another massive censorship campaign. In a Twitter thread, Mr. Shellenberger revealed that “After Biden’s ‘Summit for Democracy’ last month, Facebook agreed to censor ‘false narratives’ that would ‘weaken our support to Ukraine.’ The first salvo was Facebook’s censorship yesterday of Pulitzer-winning journalist Seymour Hersh’s article claiming the US blew up Nord Stream.”
After Biden’s “Summit for Democracy” last month, Facebook agreed to censor “false narratives” that would “weaken our support to Ukraine.”
The first salvo was Facebook's censorship yesterday of Pulitzer-winning journalist Seymour Hersh's article claiming the US blew up Nord…
— Michael Shellenberger (@shellenberger) April 20, 2023
The background to this story, as detailed by Mr. Stellenberger, was that “At Biden’s ‘Summit for Democracy,’ US allies in Europe demanded that Facebook censor ‘false narratives’ and news that would ‘weaken our support to Ukraine.’ Facebook agreed. This is totalitarianism.”
At Biden’s “Summit for Democracy,” US allies in Europe demanded that Facebook censor “false narratives” and news that would “weaken our support to Ukraine.”
Facebook agreed.
This is totalitarianism.https://t.co/SwkuQMwZOt
— Michael Shellenberger (@shellenberger) March 30, 2023
His tweet linked to an article in the New York Times that confirmed that Ukraine, Poland, and other countries were lobbying Meta (Facebook) to act “against disinformation that undermines our peace and stability.”
Mr. Stellenberger published an article on Substack giving more details about the censorship of Mr. Hersh’s, a veteran investigative journalist, articles stating that the United States (alongside Norway) was involved in the mysterious explosion of the Nord Stream pipelines. In that article, Stellenberger writes that “instead of allowing people to make up their own minds, Facebook has decided to take a side. It is censoring Hersch’s article, as the above video, made around 3:30 pm PT, shows. ‘We don’t think we can make ourselves the arbiter of the truth’ said a Facebook executive just a few years ago. And yet that’s what they’re doing.”
He further detailed that “…instead of explaining, Facebook sends readers to an article in Norwegian by its Norwegian fact-checker, Faktisk, which is run by a Norwegian journalist. In other words, Facebook has decided that a Norwegian journalist is right and Hersh is wrong. And maybe Hersh is wrong. Maybe the Norwegian journalist is right. Whatever the case, it should not be up to Facebook to decide. It’s a debate that should proceed without Facebook’s intervention.”
He added that “What’s more, Hersh is infinitely more independent than Facebook’s Norwegian fact-checker. The fact-checking organization is a partnership with a Norwegian government-owned media company, NRK, which has a direct self-interest in censoring the story. By contrast, Hersh makes his own money through Substack and won a Pulitzer for exposing U.S. government abuses in Vietnam.”
Mr. Stellenberger righteously decried that “[w]hether Hersh is wrong or right, his reporting should be debated publicly, not censored. Facebook’s actions are antithetical to America’s tradition of free and open debate and its rejection of secretive, authoritarian censorship.”
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