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That's a nice idea, but not actually true.

> “When people saw those warning labels, 95% of the time they did not go on to view the original content,” the company says. Moreover, if an article is rated “false” by their “fact checkers”, the network will “reduce its distribution”. This means that, while an author or poster is not aware that censorship is taking place, the network could be hiding their content so it is not widely disseminated.

The piece above was censored by FB as misinformation, before they apologised for the error. - https://unherd.com/2021/05/how-facebook-censored-the-lab-lea...



> the network will “reduce its distribution”

That's a different subject, I'm talking about what's happening in the persons head when they see it. Not about if the network actually just shadow-censors it so they never see it in the first place.




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