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Facebook Is Dead Unless You Post Something That Does Not Matter

• by jeffrey a. tucker

Accounts that posted against Covid restrictions and mandates are now unthrottled. Brownstone's account is now at 31K and my own personal reach is up some 175 percent. 

Of course, this is also infuriating. When we needed these voices the most was during the biggest attacks on liberty in our lifetime. Now that the powers that be have been forced by public opinion to dial back their oppressions, these voices can speak again. It's good that the truth is getting out there but imagine the kind of difference it would have made for these 33 months if there had been no blocks on information from the start? 

It's a creepy feeling to know based on disclosures so far that I was certainly throttled. It did not matter what I posted, it got no traction. The censors – meaning certainly the government – learned over time that there might be too much provocation associated with outright bans. Turning down the dial on reach was a better way. 

Of course during this entire period, the same platform also invited you to pay for reach. Throw them a few bucks and they will give you some eyeballs. When the money runs out, you are back to where you were. You couldn't prove the throttling. You just sensed it in your bones but when you complained about it, people would throw it back at you: you just fail to admit that your content is unworthy! 

In any case, now we know. There were FBI agents embedded all over the platform. The White House and various deep-state actors were pushing Twitter to censor. After a while, it became the main job of the platform to block reach rather than actually doing what they are supposed to do. 
 


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