A newly published study by the conservative watchdog group MRC Free Speech America tallied up 39 times Facebook interfered with U.S. elections since 2012.
FILE - This Aug. 11, 2019, file photo an iPhone displays the apps for Facebook and Messenger in New Orleans. “Basically 98% of the firepower is directed at conservatives," explained Dan Schneider, one of the report's authors. "There are instances where Facebook has taken down liberals. But those liberals are either in opposition to Joe Biden, you know, like RFK Jr. or else they’re in opposition to Facebook itself.
The first account of meddling detailed in the report goes back to the weeks before the 2012 presidential election when Facebook suspended the account of a veteran-run PAC after the group made posts criticizing the Obama Administration for the deaths of four Americans in Benghazi.Other examples trace through 2016, 2018, 2020 to present day elections.
During this time Meta CEO Mark Zuckerburg adamantly maintained the company’s commitment to free speech. “The ability to speak freely has been essential to the fight for democracy worldwide," Zuckerburg said during a 2019 speech at Georgetown University.“In the last two years, we’ve seen Facebook censor far less than they had in 2020. My hope is that Facebook really has turned over a new leaf," Schneider added, "We need improvements out of Facebook.
TND reached out to Meta on Wednesday, and representatives for the tech company said they have no comment on the recent report.
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