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by RcouF1uZ4gsC 1721 days ago
Why does every attack on Facebook seem like an actual pressure tactic to get them to censor views the mainstream media disagrees with? It seems a lot of the reporting on Facebook is driven more by a desire for censorship than for anything else.

In terms of misinformation, it was just a couple a weeks ago that the mainstream media was pushing the narrative that the Border Patrol was whipping immigrants, which was completely false.
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pixelgeek 1721 days ago
> Why does every attack on Facebook seem like an actual pressure tactic to get them to censor views the mainstream media disagrees with?

Maybe that is just the way you want to see it? The article is clearly talking about recent revelations about the impact of Instagram on teens. Not sure how you are getting to 'censor views the mainstream media disagrees with' but it must have been a serpentine road.

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callmeal 1721 days ago
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From https://www.poynter.org/fact-checking/2021/border-patrol-hai...

   Ratje said he saw a Border Patrol agent swing his horse’s rein in the air while migrants were in the river. One migrant who was holding bags of food fell backward.

  As some migrants tried to get past Border Patrol agents, Ratje took photos, including one that would later go viral. Ratje saw the agent swing his rein vertically, spot a Haitian migrant in a black shirt carrying bags of food, and then pursue him

   The Border Patrol agent “is grabbing the Haitian with his right hand and has his reins in his left hand. The rein swings up,” Ratje said. The migrant then “got swung around,” Ratje said, but the agent eventually let go.
Nice. The rein "swings up" and the migrant "got swung around". Purely through divine intervention we presume. We also presume that when the agent eventually let go, the person was stood back on the ground without any excessive force

   A separate video tweeted by John Holman, a correspondent for Al Jazeera, showed a Border Patrol agent yelling at Haitian migrants as they crossed the Rio Grande with food. A video showed a Border Patrol agent in the river yelling at migrants:  “Hey you use your women? This is why your country’s s—, because you use your women for this!”
Even nicer: yelling at women who are trying to get food and water to feed their children and families.
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RcouF1uZ4gsC 1721 days ago
https://www.politifact.com/article/2021/sep/24/what-we-know-...

>Ratje told PolitiFact that his photographs didn’t show signs of agents whipping any migrants or using anything as a whip to strike them.

>"Nobody saw a Border Patrol agent whipping," he said. "What we did see was a Border Patrol agent swinging the rein in like a circle. It looked pretty threatening. Nobody saw him strike the migrant with that thing, the reins.

>"I asked other colleagues, ‘Did you see him whipping?’ No," he added. "That stuff got misconstrued.

Truth is there was no whipping of immigrants. That part was completely misinformation.

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pixelgeek 1721 days ago
> Truth is there was no whipping of immigrants. That part was completely misinformation.

I guess you have to make your silver lining out of something eh?

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