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With the explosion of revelations from the release of the emails of Dr. Anthony Fauci, director of the National Institutes of Allergy and Infectiousness Diseases at the National Institutes of Health, it has been discovered that Facebook is censoring users posts of those public records, according to Reclaim the Net.

The emails published last week by Buzzfeed and the Washington Post showed Fauci the COVID-19 expert whose profile has been boosted by voluminous appearances on mainstream media news outlets taking contradictory stances on the issues of masks and quashing evidence that the virus originated at the Wuhan Institute of Virology in China. The emails undermined several other narratives that Fauci and the federal government have rammed down the throats of Americans, who have been forced to suffer under lockdowns and economic destruction, attributed to the threat of the coronavirus.

Facebook and other social media companies have been a huge part of driving that narrative. The emails showed that CEO Mark Zuckerberg communicated directly with Fauci and informed him of his plans to start a virus information resource on Facebook, which the doctor encouraged. Throughout the pandemic Facebook has censored posts by its customers of anything that it has deemed misinformation about the pandemic, including questioning the use of masks and discussions about the origins of the virus.

Facebooks fact-checkers also used a letter signed by 27 eminent health experts published in the prestigious medical journal The Lancet which attempted to debunk the Wuhan lab virus origin theory, as the basis to justify censoring posts that questioned the natural evolution narrative of the viruss transition from animals to humans. The composition, signatories, and publication of the letter were engineered by Peter Daszak, whose non-profit Ecohealth Alliance received funding from NIH and directed it to the Wuhan lab.

Now even the first-hand evidence of Faucis emails themselves, are censor-able materials according to Facebook. One example cited by Reclaim the Net shows former New York Times reporter Alex Berenson among the few journalists who have questioned the government narrative on issues related to the virus showing posts that were censored because they didnt follow (Facebooks) community standards.

The open alliance between Big Tech and government agencies on #covid raises all sorts of questions, Berenson wrote, especially this one if @Facebook is serving as an arm of the government, why doesnt the First Amendment apply to it?

Texas Sen. Ted Cruz, a Republican who as an attorney argued constitutional issues before the Supreme Court, asked similar questions in an appearance on Fox News on Sunday:

These latest breakthroughshave real consequence becauseit now is clear that Facebookwas operating at the directionof and in the direct benefit ofthe federal government andoperating as the governmentscensor, utilizing their monopolyposition to censor on behalf ofthe government

If you went out andposted the facts that led a yearago to the very stronglikelihood that the COVID virusescaped from a Chinesegovernment labin Wuhan,China,if you posted that a year agoand they took it down, I thinktheres a very good argumentyou have a cause of actionagainst Facebook.

Facebookwould ordinarily say, Were aprivate company, were not liable.

Well, you know what, when they act atthe behest of the government, when theycontact [Anthony] Fauci, when they say, Should we censor this? and Faucisays, Yes and they censor it for thefederal government and then magically when thegovernment changes its mind, and say, Oh, allthose facts that were there a year ago,now youre allowed to talk aboutit, they stopped censoring it with aflip of a switch, that lays a very strong argument thatFacebook is operating as a stateagency and that opens verysignificant legal liability.

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