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>>southe+(OP)
This whole article is really confusing. It sounds like there were two things:

- Covid disinformation

- Some nonsense about Hunter Biden

and they're being conflated. What does Hunter Biden's laptop have to do with preventing Covid disinformation? A disease that was estimated to kill up to 30m people worldwide.

>>scott_+O4
The US gov pressured social media companies to censor posts about both those topics for political reasons, even though a lot of what was said turned out to be true

>>cheese+b5
> censor posts about both those topics for political reasons

In the context of Covid disinformation, "political reasons" is simply not correct. We're only 2 years out but it was clear even at the time that there was a concerted effort to pretend there wasn't an active pandemic and governments were right to crack down on it.

The only thread connecting them is "disinformation" which is tenuous at best. It's not clear to me what Zuckerberg's letter refers to because the article seems to move between the topics as though they're basically the same thing.

>>scott_+z5
Suppressing the lab leak theory certainly seemed political to me

>>cheese+B8
The length of the Wikipedia article on this nonsensical conspiracy theory runs counter to your argument that it was "suppressed."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/COVID-19_lab_leak_theory

>>scott_+da
Are you disagreeing with the “chilling effect” section of the article, or are you implying the effect could not have been real due to the current length of the article?