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by blmsjw 2060 days ago
What does that have to do with facebooks policy?
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It's evidence that their policy is not to suppress conservatives, because conservative content is very obviously flourishing on their network.
Or it’s evidence that facebook does indeed have the potential to disrupt the distribution of information to conservatives because their platform is more or less a monopoly. You should always imagine how you would feel if your views were being censored. Free debate is a cornerstone to America
I'm sorry, that's not how evidence works.

The initial claim was that Facebook is currently acting to suppress one political view. This claim is false, based on that political view being the dominant view on Facebook.

You can say that despite that, we should all be concerned about Facebook's power to suppress political views, and I would definitely agree. First they came for the trade unionist, and so on. But saying that despite the evidence disproving the first point, we should still be concerned is very, very, very different from saying, no, this evidence against the first point is actually evidence of something completely the opposite of that. That's not how evidence works.

Please, don't say nonsensical things that run counter to how reason or facts work. Thanks.