The Facebook employee who leaked internal documents pertaining to the company’s crackdown on posts skeptical of the COVID-19 vaccine has been let go by the company.
On May 24th, Project Veritas released internal documents from Facebook which appeared to show a plan to censor content that included concerns over vaccinations.
The next day, even more documents were released, clearly showing that the tech giant was using a tier system to deal with such content.
In response, Facebook stated that they “proactively announced this policy on [their] company blog and also updated [their] help center with this information.” It has been claimed that “Vaccine-hesitant posts contribute to spreading fear and distrust of the COVID-19 vaccines,” thus giving supposed justification for the removal of such posts.
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Original article posted at The Postmillennial. Title Changed by Montana Daily Gazette.
