[aprilthird2021]

> Facebook executives had first approached the Pentagon in the summer of 2020, warning the military that Facebook workers had easily identified the military’s phony accounts, according to three former U.S. officials and another person familiar with the matter. The government, Facebook argued, was violating Facebook’s policies by operating the bogus accounts and by spreading COVID misinformation.

> The military argued that many of its fake accounts were being used for counterterrorism and asked Facebook not to take down the content

There you have it. Counter-terorrism is our new "please think of the children" to halt logical thought and make you the bad guy if you continue pressing any further on serious matters.