By Autumn Johnson ~
Leftist journalists appear to be setting their sights on Facebook after the platform allegedly shelved a controversial report from 2021’s first-quarter.
Facebook was accused of deliberately hiding its first-quarter report from the public, apparently after finding that its top story of the quarter centered on COVID “misinformation.”
The story in question was an article from the Chicago Tribune, which reported on the death of a doctor two weeks after he received the COVID vaccine.
“If you drop poison into Facebook’s content well, it can be extraordinarily effective at spreading it out. That’s a terrible and important reality,” an article from NiemanLab.org reads, discussing the details of the Tribune article.
Left-leaning journalists were quick to jump on the report that Facebook hid the information from the public because executives “were scared it would make the company look bad.”
“Facebook hid an earlier report w/ very damning data on how a post with Covid vaccine misinformation was viewed by tens of millions of people,” Cecilia Kang, tech reporter for The New York Times, tweeted, including a tweet from another NYT tech reporter that accused Facebook of hiding the information to protect its reputation.
Other journalists continued to pile on.
“I’ve long compared Facebook to Big Tobacco and here’s the latest parallel: Facebook knew internally that it was facilitating the deaths of thousands of people through misinformation, and not only did nothing about it, but withheld its knowledge from public,” Asha Rangappa, former FBI special agent and current CNN analyst tweeted.
Rangappa went even further, calling on state attorney generals to sue Facebook over COVID misinformation posted by users.
“Forget legislation and regulation. Zuck needs a good tort lawsuit brought by AGs of states whose COVID numbers are through the roof because Facebook knowingly serves as a conduit for false info…” she continued.
CNN correspondent Donie O’Sullivan also argued that Facebook acted in bad faith.
“Hard to take anything Facebook says in good faith,” O’Sullivan tweeted. “Facebook didn’t release a transparency report in Q1 because it showed top link was an “article with a headline suggesting that the coronavirus vaccine was at fault for the death of a Florida doctor.”
The comments come months after President Joe Biden bizarrely accused Facebook of “killing people.”
“They’re killing people. The only pandemic we have is among the unvaccinated. And they’re killing people,” he said.
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Autumn Johnson is a contributing writer at the NewsBusters site, and she is a practicing attorney licensed in the Commonwealth of Virginia and the District of Columbia. When not working, Autumn enjoys reading, writing, playing video games, and spending time with her cats.
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Latest CDC data:
https://covid.cdc.gov/covid-data-tracker/#underlying-med-conditions
“People of any age with certain underlying medical conditions are at increased risk for severe COVID-19 illness. The dashboard presents county-level, model-based estimates of the prevalence for any of five underlying medical conditions that increase the risk for severe COVID-19-associated illness, including chronic kidney disease, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), heart disease, diagnosed diabetes, and obesity. The data reflected are based on an analysis of the 2018 Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System (BRFSS) survey for which questions were available and U.S. Census population data among U.S. adults in 3,142 counties.”
If a lifetime of bad habits or bad luck brought you to the above, too bad. Life’s a bitch and then you die.
https://covid.cdc.gov/covid-data-tracker/#demographicsovertime
Under 65, 88.9% of cases (Graph 2/6), over 65, 73.6% of deaths (graph 5/6).
If you are 65+ in a nursing home or assisted living or hospice and the staff roaming among multiple facilities brings in C-19 you are f****. But you were f*** anyway.
Mother Nature and her good buddy Grim Reaper are just doing their duty, culling the herd of the too many, too old, too sick, too crammed together as Medicare/Medicaid cash cows in badly run (BLUE) elder care facilities.
According to CDC data in 2020 there were 3,390,029 deaths from all causes in the US.
351,430 or 10.4 % were attributed to C-19 as the underlying cause.
YTD 2021 there have been 1,906,849 deaths from all causes.
203,339 or 10.7% were attributed to C-19 as the underlying cause.
Sorry excuse for a pandemic.
Monthly Provisional Counts of Deaths by Select Causes, 2020-2021 | Data | Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (cdc.gov)
But blaming Chine avoids dealing with our own crappy eldercare systems.
The lock downs, distancing, masks that destroyed small business, gyms and movie theaters were totally unjustified.
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