Is it possible that Facebook is a big enough share of the internet that they can block the Streisand Effect? My money is on "no".

Well... contentious stories get removed from here, too. This is a topic that gets contentious.

I assume you don't mean flagging, since those are not removed, just frozen.

Note that the link is to an article on HN, not flagged, and the comments pretty clearly debunk the article's claims. TLDR, author wrote some clickbait headlines and used gpt3 to fill in the articles, with an unspecified amount of editing, then some of them got onto the front page of HN and he wrote an article about that.

https://greenwald.substack.com/p/journalists-learning-they-s...

I assumed it was worthy of discussion given the whole censorship debate and concepts of censorship like AI moderation or misinformation or disinformation.

The co-ordinated efforts of a small number of corporate actors probably is. We live in a gov-valley-sov-corp media ecology with fairly sophisticated mechanisms of message control. Maybe the old netheads were wrong about streisand effect - maybe that was a temporary material condition.

And amazingly, there are Facebook employees on HN all the time who can't understand why people hate Facebook.

I recently spent time with a couple of relatives who only get news from Facebook. I suspect there are millions of other people who do the same. (Because it's free and if it's on the internet, it must be true!)

This illustrates that they only know about the things that Facebook wants them to know.