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Re:Facebook versus The BMJ: when fact checking goes wrong by GeekyBear on Thursday January 20, 2022 @11:54AM (#30011419)
> I have yet to see a better alternative.

I find the notion of allowing an organization with zero reputation to censor a peer reviewed medical journal that has been continuously published since 1840 to be particularly ridiculous.

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Re:Facebook versus The BMJ: when fact checking goes wrong by musicale on Tuesday February 01, 2022 @07:13PM (#30171721)
> zero reputation

That may be a charitable assessment.

> censor a peer reviewed medical journal

Is Facebook's content moderation actually censorship? Certainly the BMJ is still free to publish whatever it wants, as it always has.

What obligation (legal or otherwise) does Facebook have to permit content it doesn't approve of (for whatever reason) to be published on its platform?

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