U.S. Federal Communications Commission (FCC) Commissioner Brendan Carr is criticizing Facebook, owned by Mark Zuckerberg’s Meta conglomerate, for censoring factually accurate content critical of the Biden-Harris regime. Carr took to X (formerly Twitter) to expose a case where Facebook flagged a post that accurately pointed out the failure of a Harris-led rural broadband expansion initiative, labeling it as “false information” despite the post being truthful.
The censored post highlighted that the Biden-Harris government promised to spend $42 billion to expand Internet coverage across the U.S., yet to date, no households or businesses have actually been connected under the plan. According to Carr, the post was flagged by one of Facebook’s so-called “fact-checkers,” who are often criticized for biased assessments. While the post wasn’t removed outright, Facebook’s algorithms significantly reduced its visibility, with CEO Mark Zuckerberg admitting that flagged posts receive 95 percent fewer clicks and up to 47 percent fewer shares.
Carr noted the irony of the “fact-checkers” citing officials from the very government being criticized to issue their “false information” rating. He stressed that the censorship is taking place despite the fact that “Zuckerberg promised Congress that it had stopped censoring posts at the behest of the Biden-Harris Administration.”
Carr has long accused Big Tech of political and ideological bias, asserting that platforms like Meta and Google are “building in” bias into their algorithms, which control everything from search results to artificial intelligence (AI) outputs. He has called this trend a significant threat to freedom of expression and an “existential crisis for democracy.”
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Facebook is now censoring the fact that @VP Harris has failed to connect even one person to the Internet despite leading the Administration’s $42 billion infrastructure plan for 1,000+ days.
Facebook is labeling this “false information,” not because anyone has been… pic.twitter.com/spOFPPyDJk
— Brendan Carr (@BrendanCarrFCC) October 20, 2024
