{"id":2340064,"date":"2024-09-12T07:13:01","date_gmt":"2024-09-12T11:13:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/if-zuckerberg-regrets-censorship-he-must-stop-silencing-speech\/"},"modified":"2024-09-12T07:26:28","modified_gmt":"2024-09-12T11:26:28","slug":"if-zuckerberg-regrets-censorship-he-must-stop-silencing-speech","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/if-zuckerberg-regrets-censorship-he-must-stop-silencing-speech\/","title":{"rendered":"If Zuckerberg Regrets Censorship, He Must Stop Silencing Speech"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">18<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fif-zuckerberg-regrets-censorship-he-must-stop-silencing-speech%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2340064&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>In a recent admission, Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg acknowledged\u2064 that \u200dhe was pressured by the Biden administration to censor certain content on Facebook,\u2063 ultimately suppressing free speech and impacting crucial discussions on Covid protocols \u200dand the legitimacy of \u200cthe Hunter \u200dBiden laptop story. This suppression, according to a concerned \u200dteacher and activist, has severely affected social media users, particularly those who share opposing views about government policies, resulting in widespread shadow-banning\u2014a \u2063practice where content is not effectively disseminated \u200dto the audience.<\/p>\n<p>The activist, who has experienced significant drops in engagement on her posts, argues that this censorship has\u200c done considerable harm not only to public discourse but also to children and educational\u200b environments. She claims that her\u200b attempts to \u2064warn \u200cfamilies about corruption in schools \u200dwere met with algorithmic silencing while harmful narratives were allowed to flourish. Despite her efforts to remedy this through social media experts, the suppression persists.<\/p>\n<p>Zuckerberg has expressed regret over the government pressure to censor, asserting that Meta will not compromise its \u200bcontent standards in the future; however, the activist remains skeptical as she continues to face restrictions. She emphasizes \u200cthe\u2064 real-world consequences of\u2063 this censorship, \u200dincluding potential health risks stemming from suppressed information on Covid responses and harmful educational content affecting\u2063 children. The activist warns that the ongoing suppression\u200c resembles authoritarian control, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/ending-affirmative-action-wont-stop-the-university-systems-racist-admissions-practices\/\" title=\"Ending Affirmative Action Won&#039;t Halt Racist Admissions in Universities.\">hindering free speech<\/a> while allowing misleading narratives to thrive unchecked.<\/p>\n<p>Ultimately, she calls for \u200baccountability from tech companies and urges for the restoration of free speech on \u200bsocial platforms, especially for those who challenge mainstream narratives. As the landscape of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/truckers-against-vax-mandate-raise-millions-gofundme-withholds-funds\/\" title=\"Truckers Against Vax Mandate Raise Millions; GoFundMe Withholds Funds\">social media continues<\/a> to evolve, the concerns over censorship and \u200bits effects on public health, safety, and\u2064 democratic processes remain at the forefront of ongoing debates.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\">\n    <button onclick=\"showReadMore()\" id=\"readmorebtn\">Read more&#8230;<\/button>\n<\/p>\n<hr id=\"line\">\n<span id=\"more\"><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>Facebook chief Mark Zuckerberg now&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/JudiciaryGOP\/status\/1828201780544504064?lang=en\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">admits in writing<\/a>&nbsp;that he was manipulated by the Biden administration into suppressing free speech on Meta platforms. His actions obstructed vital information on effective Covid protocols and bolstered the lie that the Hunter Biden laptop was Russian disinformation. This did enormous damage to our health and polity.<\/p>\n<p>But Facebook&rsquo;s censorship brought harm to innocent children too. I&rsquo;m a longtime teacher, and for decades I&rsquo;ve personally witnessed dangerous corruption in America&rsquo;s schools. I dared to warn families, so I was silenced by Zuckerberg&rsquo;s &ldquo;shadow-banning,&rdquo; thanks to algorithms imposed by censors (&ldquo;fact-checkers&rdquo;) at Meta.<\/p>\n<p>Meta&rsquo;s banning (as well as Twitter&rsquo;s) began the very same night of my 2020&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=rNBHId8KNO4\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">speech at the Republican National Convention<\/a>. My pages changed from active with hundreds of likes and shares to zero likes and shares. And I went from rapid, daily follower increases to a complete halt in growth. Hundreds of my followers have reached out to me since the banning began to tell me that they no longer see my posts in their newsfeeds. Instagram&rsquo;s (Meta&rsquo;s) analytics show that an average of only 25 percent of my followers are seeing my content. That&rsquo;s how shadow-banning works. I&rsquo;m allowed to post, but my message is squelched.<\/p>\n<p>Though I&rsquo;m a volunteer in this battle for the kids, I had to hire social media experts to help me get my message to the public. They&rsquo;ve reignited my social media presence&nbsp;&mdash;&nbsp;predominantly on Meta&rsquo;s Instagram&nbsp;&mdash;&nbsp;with a reel-heavy strategy. Our ratios are the highest they&rsquo;ve ever been&nbsp;&mdash;&nbsp;with the exception of&nbsp;follower count. That doesn&rsquo;t add up.<\/p>\n<p>It&rsquo;s even worse on Facebook and X. We have high hopes that we&rsquo;ll be freed on X since Elon is now in charge, but we&rsquo;ve been unable to reach their tech team for support and believe our preexisting Twitter shadow-banning has yet to be lifted on X.<\/p>\n<p>Government tech is suppressing my speech because I exposed so-called teachers unions for morphing America&rsquo;s schools into social, sexual,&nbsp;and political warzones, and I shared personal stories of how they pick on loving teachers and little kids. Though I spoke 100 percent eyewitness truth, I&rsquo;m still shadow-banned four years later.<\/p>\n<p>I know many people like me who are also banned on social media. We&rsquo;re denied our free speech rights, while the predators we&rsquo;re exposing broadcast loudly.<\/p>\n<p>Zuckerberg stated that he believes &ldquo;the government pressure [to censor content] was wrong.&rdquo; He also penned, &ldquo;I feel strongly that we should not compromise our content standards due to pressure from any Administration in either direction &mdash; and we&rsquo;re ready to push back if something like this happens again.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>That sounds nice. But I&rsquo;m still shadow-banned, and the day after Zuckerberg&rsquo;s letter released, my personal page was&nbsp;inexplicably&nbsp;suspended. Many of my allies in the cause for truth are banned too.<\/p>\n<p>Because of the censorship, we&rsquo;re now ruled by tyrants. I have friends whose family members died from untested Covid shots and government-mandated hospital protocols. I know many who are suffering serious shot-related health complications. And the kids I&rsquo;ve been trying to protect are&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.heritage.org\/marriage-and-family\/commentary\/we-must-fight-the-sexualization-children-adults\">bein<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.heritage.org\/marriage-and-family\/commentary\/we-must-fight-the-sexualization-children-adults\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">g sexualized in our schools<\/a>&nbsp;in record numbers.<\/p>\n<p>That&rsquo;s why I&rsquo;m concerned about Zuckerberg&rsquo;s claims that he&rsquo;ll &ldquo;push back if something like this happens again,&rdquo; because it&rsquo;s still happening &mdash; it never stopped. He never freed us from censorship.<\/p>\n<p>Nothing Zuckerberg can say now will erase the injury he and the other tech titans have done to the country that made them billionaires. But I&rsquo;ll believe he&rsquo;s sorry when he ends the silencing of honest Americans like me.<\/p>\n<p>Who knows how many Americans are dead, or severely injured, because tech titans silenced expert opposing views about the government&rsquo;s handling of&nbsp;Covid? How many of those untested shots would have been rejected? How many patients would have taken commonsense, award-winning medicines like&nbsp;ivermectin and&nbsp;hydroxychloroquine, instead of dying on ventilators?<\/p>\n<p>How many Americans might have voted differently in 2020 had they known the Hunter Biden laptop &mdash; loaded with authoritative accounts of government corruption and crime &mdash; was legitimate?<\/p>\n<p>A little closer to home, how many additional families have lost their children to sexualized curricula, school violence, and the transgender agenda because Zuckerberg blocked our vital information about corruption in government schools? How many kids lost&nbsp;two&nbsp;years of learning because schools were shuttered thanks to the politicking of teacher unions?&nbsp;While those unscrupulous unions enjoy the freedom to propagandize on social media, thousands of commentators, including myself, are still shunted off the main feeds of innumerable apps because we dare stray from the official government tech line.<\/p>\n<p>That my friends, is reflective of&nbsp;communism.<\/p>\n<p>In regard to demoting the Hunter laptop as &ldquo;Russian disinformation,&rdquo; Zuckerberg now says, &ldquo;We&rsquo;ve changed our policies and processes to make sure this doesn&rsquo;t happen again &mdash; for instance, we no <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/zuckerberg-says-facebook-helped-feds-on-censorship-campaign\/\" title=\"Zuckerberg Says Facebook Helped Feds On Censorship Campaign\">longer temporarily demote things<\/a> in the U.S. while waiting for fact-checkers.&rdquo; Since I&rsquo;ve been demoted for&nbsp;four&nbsp;years without explanation, this is not reassuring.<\/p>\n<p>And what about the hundreds of millions of dollars in cash Zuckerberg doled out to nearly 2,500 counties in 49 states? All on the up-and-up? Not according&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2021\/10\/12\/the-2020-election-wasnt-stolen-it-was-bought-by-mark-zuckerberg\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">to numerous skeptics<\/a>, including Hans von Spakovsky, a former Federal Election Commission member who in 2021 said it was clearly an effort to aid Democrats. <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2021\/10\/14\/zuckerberg-election-spending-was-orchestrated-to-influence-2020-vote\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Spakovsky said<\/a>,&nbsp;&ldquo;This was a carefully orchestrated attempt to convert official government election offices into get-out-the-vote operations for one political party.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>In a contemporary period where numerous government agencies are weaponized to serve the so-called Democratic Party in its persecution of those they dislike,&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/theconservativetreehouse.com\/blog\/2024\/08\/27\/mark-zuckerberg-admits-to-congress-he-worked-with-joe-biden-and-white-house-to-control-speech-in-america-says-he-regrets-doing-it\/?utm_source=rss&amp;utm_medium=rss&amp;utm_campaign=mark-zuckerberg-admits-to-congress-he-worked-with-joe-biden-and-white-house-to-control-speech-in-america-says-he-regrets-doing-it&amp;lctg=74635671\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Zuckerberg&rsquo;s words here<\/a>&nbsp;are poignant. &ldquo;I know that some people believe this work benefited one party over the other,&rdquo; Zuckerberg deadpanned, adding meaningfully, &ldquo;I don&rsquo;t plan on making a similar contribution this cycle.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>But it&rsquo;s hard to believe a man who cannot fully admit that his actions&nbsp;<em>did<\/em>&nbsp;benefit Democrats over the democratic process, and who continues blocking truth-tellers&nbsp;on&nbsp;the very day he released his confession.<\/p>\n<p>Calling your bluff,&nbsp;Zuckerberg. Prove your sincerity by freeing persecuted truth-tellers like me. You can find me @RebeccaForKids.<\/p>\n<p><em>This <a href=\"https:\/\/realclearwire.com\/articles\/2024\/09\/09\/zuckerberg_regrets_silencing_speech_i_say_prove_it_151584.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">article<\/a> was originally published by RealClearPolitics and made available via RealClearWire.<\/em><\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>      Rebecca Friedrichs is the founder of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.forkidsandcountry.org\/\">For Kids and Country<\/a>, author of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Standing-Up-Goliath-Battling-National\/dp\/1642930539\">Standing Up to Goliath<\/a>, and a 28-year public school teacher who was lead plaintiff in Friedrichs v. California Teachers Association.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg has now acknowledged in writing that he was influenced by the Biden administration to limit free speech on Meta&#8217;s platforms. His decisions hindered crucial information regarding effective Covid protocols and perpetuated the false narrative that the Hunter Biden laptop was part of a Russian disinformation campaign. This had significant negative impacts on public health and governance. Additionally, Facebook&#8217;s censorship has harmed innocent children as well. As a long-time educator, I have witnessed serious corruption in American schools for many years. When I attempted to alert families about these issues, I faced silencing through Zuckerberg\u2019s \u201cshadow-banning,\u201d which was enforced by algorithms set by censors at Meta.<\/p>\n<p>The censorship from Meta and Twitter began immediately after my speech at the 2020 Republican National Convention; my social media engagement plummeted from hundreds of likes and shares to none at all, halting my follower growth completely. Many followers have contacted me since then to say they can no longer see my posts in their feeds, with Instagram analytics indicating that only about 25% of my followers are viewing my content\u2014this is how shadow-banning operates: I can post but am effectively silenced.<\/p>\n<p>Although I&#8217;m volunteering for this cause concerning children&#8217;s welfare, I&#8217;ve had to hire social media experts to help amplify my message again. They\u2019ve revitalized my presence on Instagram with a focus on video content; our engagement rates are higher than ever except for follower count\u2014which doesn\u2019t make sense.<\/p>\n<p>The situation is even more dire on Facebook and X (formerly Twitter). We hope things will improve under Elon Musk\u2019s leadership at X, but we haven\u2019t been able to get support from their tech team and suspect our previous shadow-banning remains unaddressed there as well.<\/p>\n<p>Government technology is stifling my voice because I&#8217;ve exposed teachers&#8217; unions for transforming schools into battlegrounds over social issues while sharing personal accounts of how they target caring educators and young students. Despite sharing firsthand truths, I&#8217;m still facing shadow-banning four years later.<\/p>\n<p>I know many others like me who are also restricted on social media; we\u2019re being denied our rights to free speech while those we aim to expose continue speaking freely.<\/p>\n<p>Zuckerberg has stated he believes &#8220;the government pressure [to censor content] was wrong&#8221; and expressed his commitment not to compromise content standards due to any administration&#8217;s influence\u2014promising readiness to resist such pressures in the future.<\/p>\n<p>While this sounds promising, I&#8217;m still experiencing shadow-banning; moreover, just after his letter was released, inexplicably suspended from Facebook myself along with many allies fighting for truth.<\/p>\n<p>Due to this censorship regime, we&#8217;re living under tyrannical conditions. Friends have lost family members due to untested Covid vaccines or harmful hospital protocols mandated by the government. Many suffer severe health complications related directly or indirectly linked back these shots while children face increasing sexualization within schools\u2014a trend I&#8217;ve been trying hard protect them against.<\/p>\n<p>This ongoing situation raises concerns about Zuckerberg\u2019s claims of pushing back against future censorship when it continues unabated today\u2014he hasn\u2019t liberated us from suppression yet!<\/p>\n<p>No amount of remorse expressed now can undo the damage inflicted upon our nation by him alongside other tech leaders who benefited immensely financially through actions detrimental towards society overall! How many lives could&#8217;ve been saved if expert opinions opposing governmental narratives around Covid were allowed? How different might voting outcomes have looked if people knew Hunter Biden&#8217;s laptop contained credible evidence pointing towards corruption?<\/p>\n<p>On a more personal level: how many additional families have suffered losses due sexualized curricula or violence within schools exacerbated because vital information exposing governmental misconduct got blocked? How much learning did kids miss out during school closures driven politically rather than scientifically justified?<\/p>\n<p>While unscrupulous unions enjoy unrestricted access online propagating their agenda without hindrance whatsoever\u2014thousands including myself remain sidelined simply because we dare challenge official narratives pushed forth via government-sanctioned channels!<\/p>\n<p>This scenario reflects characteristics reminiscent of communism itself! <\/p>\n<p>Regarding demoting Hunter Biden\u2019s laptop story as \u201cRussian disinformation,\u201d Zuckerberg claims they&#8217;ve revised policies ensuring similar incidents won\u2019t recur again stating they no longer temporarily suppress U.S.-based posts pending fact-checking reviews\u2014but given four years\u2019 worth silence imposed upon me without explanation leaves little comfort here!<\/p>\n<p>And what about those hundreds millions dollars distributed across nearly 2 thousand counties nationwide? Was everything above board? Skeptics like Hans von Spakovsky argue otherwise suggesting it served primarily Democratic interests rather than fair electoral processes overall\u2014a sentiment echoed throughout various circles questioning integrity behind such funding initiatives aimed solely benefiting one political faction over another!<\/p>\n<p>In light current events where numerous agencies appear weaponized serving partisan agendas targeting dissenters\u2014it becomes increasingly difficult trust statements made publicly especially when actions contradict intentions voiced openly! <\/p>\n<p>So calling your bluff here Mr.Zuckerberg! Prove sincerity behind words spoken recently freeing persecuted truth-tellers like myself\u2014you\u2019ll find me @RebeccaForKids.<\/p>\n<p>Originally published via RealClearPolitics &amp; shared through RealClearWire.<br \/>\nRebecca Friedrichs serves as founder For Kids And Country author Standing Up To Goliath &amp; boasts extensive experience spanning nearly three decades teaching public school leading case Friedrichs v California Teachers Association<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3424,"featured_media":2340065,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/Copy-of-Untitled-97.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[6371,32311,32364,4576],"class_list":["post-2340064","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-censorship","tag-free-speech","tag-social-media","tag-zuckerberg"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/Copy-of-Untitled-97.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2340064","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3424"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2340064"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2340064\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2340065"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2340064"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2340064"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2340064"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}