Zuckerberg’s Facebook

lies again. In a video presenting President Donald Trump saying on Fox NewsFox & Friends

My view is that schools should be open. If you look at children, children are almost—and I would almost say definitely—but almost immune from this disease.

The video was posted on Facebook—and then removed entirely. Liz Bourgeois, Facebook’s Communications Director, Strategic Response:

This video includes false claims that a group of people is immune from COVID-19 which is a violation of our policies around harmful COVID misinformation[.]

Therein sits the lie. Almost immune is not immune; saying a group of people is almost immune from this disease is not at all saying that they are immune.

Facebook’s Bourgeois is lying with her allegation. Mark Zuckerberg is lying through his employee—as the controlling shareholder of Facebook, Bourgeois is only saying what he tells her to say/authorizes her to say. Zuckerberg’s Facebook is engaging in cynical—wholly dishonest—censorship.

The Doctors Video

Here, through the efforts of One America News Network, is the video of facts and considered medical opinion that the amateur censors of Facebook, Alphabet (through its YouTube and Google subsidiaries) and Twitter don’t want you to see because it runs counter to their pre-written narratives.

It’s 45 minutes long and well worth every moment, whether or not you agree with their opinions, because it’s useful to get all sides of the matter. Especially if Mark Zuckerberg, Sundar Pichai, and Jack Dorsey don’t want you to see the whole story.

Hong Kong Semi-Autonomy

Here’s another hint. In the ongoing dispute between the US and the People’s Republic of China—the latest example of which is the lack of US visa renewals for PRC journalists—Hu Xijin, Editor-in-Chief of Chinese and English editions of the PRC State organ Global Times, had this:

From what I know, given that the US side hasn’t renewed visa of Chinese journalists, Chinese side has prepared for the worst scenario that all Chinese journalists have to leave the US. If that’s the case, Chinese side will retaliate, including targeting US journalists based in HK[]

Including targeting US journalists based in HK.  So much for Hong Kong’s semi-autonomy. It’s plainly a fully absorbed satrap of the PRC.

Full Circle

Manhattan District Attorney Cyrus Vance filed a new brief urging the Federal court in which he pleads District cases to allow him to execute his subpoenas for years of records regarding Trump businesses.

Vance is relying to an amazing degree on newspaper claims.

Court documents cited articles by The Wall Street Journal…and by the Washington Post….

Imagine that. Newspapers make unsubstantiated claims, which draw clicks to their outlets. Then prosecutors with axes to grind start manufacturing civil and criminal cases based on those newspaper articles, gaining political street cred for their ambitions. Then those newspapers write extensively about those civil and criminal cases as they develop, gaining yet more clicks for their outlets.

The circle is a vicious one, too.