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09 Jan 2022

Facebook’s Role In Jan. 6 Siege

Gary Franchi reports that Facebook is coming under fire for the role it played in last year’s siege on the Capitol.  Sourcing the Washington Post and Pro Publica, Franchi says Facebook became a public breeding ground for disgruntled voters, who chose the social media giant to organize, following a barrage of pro-Trump posts regarding the Jan. 6 siege.

Franchi says Facebook executives have downplayed Facebook’s role in the attack and have resisted calls for an internal probe. Here’s the rest of the story from Franchi on Next News Network.

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24 Dec 2020

China Censored Virus Narrative

Sourcing a New York Times expose, China Uncensored is reporting how the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) purposely issued censorship directives for the coronavirus pandemic. The Times, who published the article in a joint effort with ProPublica, obtained 32,000 directives and 1,800 memos from a group of hackers known as CCP Unmasked, revealing how the Chinese regime wrote a false narrative around the coronavirus, shaping public opinion both domestically and internationally.

The directives and memos reveal how the CCP especially targeted the internet, downplaying the danger of the coronavirus with paid online commentators, who worked for the state, and controlled the narrative using state-of-the-art technology. Chris Chappell and Shelley Zhang bring us more details.

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