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Re:Facebook prevents sharing New York Post story on BLM co-f... by MikeUt on Friday April 16, 2021 @05:58PM (#26839509)
The Streisand effect only happens if you find out about the censorship. There's a million ways to reduce the reach of a story covertly.
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Re:Facebook prevents sharing New York Post story on BLM co-f... by nitrogen on Friday April 16, 2021 @06:56PM (#26839939)
As one example of how to slow a story: back when Wikileaks was first really trending, Facebook would sometimes just take a really long time to submit a post, or simply error out, if you tried to post a URL from Wikileaks.
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