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Facebook’s government ‘censorship made easy’

Newly released documents reveal that Facebook created a portal specifically for government officials to flag and censor content labelled as "COVID & Vaccine Misinformation."
FACTS:
  • Facebook developed an “End-to-end workflow” system, which made it easy for the government to censor flagged posts
  • The system also allowed federal agencies to bypass public transparency laws, making oversight difficult 
Can students opt out? Will they be penalised for challenging the course’s content?
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Almost 1000 New Zealanders have chosen physician-assisted dying, so far. 

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