Source: Zero Hedge
This week, Facebook announced a new enforcement policy that seeks to deplatform groups who coordinate online and spread misinformation, hate speech, and incite violence.
The new “coordinated social harm” policy was immediately used against 150 pages and groups connected to Germany’s Querdenken (Lateral Thinking) movement, which has routinely fueled resistance to government health restrictions and vaccines through anti-lockdown protests.
Facebook’s head of security policy Nathaniel Gleicher wrote in a blog update Thursday that his team has been “expanding our network disruption efforts so we can address threats that come from groups of authentic accounts coordinating on our platform to cause social harm.”
Gleicher said: “Today, we’re sharing our enforcement against a network of accounts, Pages and Groups operated by individuals associated with the Querdenken movement in Germany.”
“We removed a network of Facebook and Instagram accounts, Pages and Groups for engaging in coordinated efforts to repeatedly violate our Community Standards, including posting harmful health misinformation, hate speech and incitement to violence. We also blocked their domains from being shared on our platform. This network was operated by individuals associated with the Querdenken movement in Germany, which is linked to off-platform violence and other social harms,” he said.
Gleicher said the new policy allows Facebook to act against the “core network” of a group that commits widespread violations. He said individuals associated with the Querdenken movement regularly violated the platform’s terms of service by spreading health misinformation, inciting violence, bullying, and harassment.
Thursday’s action moves Facebook into a more aggressive role as the judge of the “new normal” in a post-COVID world. They’re the deciders of right and wrong and won’t let people with opposing views use their platform.
Welcome to #NewNormal Germany, where Facebook has just deplatformed 150 accounts of people opposing the new official ideology … because protesting the New Normal now qualifies as “Coordinated Social Harm.”https://t.co/j1XY5mgcyf
— Consent Factory (@consent_factory) September 16, 2021
We have previously discussed Facebook’s move to align itself with pro-Biden media. It was found that the Biden Administration has routinely flagged anti-vaxx material to be censored by the social media company.
When it comes to politicians, celebrities, and other high-profile users of the platform (but not Trump), they’re given special treatment in what appears to be a two-tier digital society where only leftist points of view can be expressed while everyone is deplatformed.
