Facebook has been accused of suppressing a story by an investigative journalist who accused the United States of blowing up the Nord Stream pipelines.
Investigative journalist Seymour Hersh wrote an in depth account claiming that the interfering US blew up the Nord Stream pipelines, however Facebook has been accused of suppressing the story. The Thaiger faced an analogous state of affairs last month when Facebook suppressed a narrative about former drug lord Pablo Escobar’s hippos. They have yet to reply to the explanation why. Read the story HERE:
Hersh, a Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter for The New York Times, published his story on substack.com on Wednesday, February 8.
Facebook added qualifiers to the story and redirected readers to an article on a Norwegian website. The pipelines carried pure fuel from Russia to Western Europe and have a terminus in Germany. The US and different NATO countries have placed financial sanctions on Russia for the rationale that begin of its military battle with Ukraine in February 2022.
Facebook has been accused of interfering in information distribution by blocking the article. Caitlin Johnstone, an Australian journalist, said…
“Facebook doesn’t explain how a ‘fact-checking’ company which operates in conjunction with Norwegian state media could be thought to be ‘independent’ regarding an article which explicitly accuses the Norwegian authorities of extraordinarily egregious crimes.”
Facebook users making an attempt to share the URL from Hersh’s story obtain the message…
“Before you share this content, you might need to know that there’s further reporting from Faktisk. Pages and websites that repeatedly publish or share false information will see their overall distribution lowered and be restricted in different methods.”
Faktisk.no is a Norwegian “fact-checking” website produced in cooperation with Norwegian mass media and NRK, Norway’s state broadcasting firm.
Twitter consumer “Nuno Marques” posted on Thursday, April 20 that Hersh’s report “is now banned on Facebook and Reddit in Norway,” and that the Norwegian authorities is “demanding censorship of this news as they realized greater than half of their citizens were towards the Nord Stream bombings!”
Author Michael Shellenberger, writing on substack.com, said…
“Instead of allowing folks to make up their very own minds, Facebook has determined to take a facet.”
The New York Times printed a story on March 7 suggesting that a pro-Ukrainian group was behind the explosions. The article doesn’t carry comparable warnings by Facebook, nor do accounts that allege Russia was behind the pipelines’ destruction. Russian web site RT.com tweeted on April 21…
“The notoriously ‘impartial’ Facebook red flags Seymour Hersh’s reporting on Nord Stream sabotage as ‘false’ citing counterclaims by ‘independent fact-checkers from Norway and Ukraine.”
Moneyback , a former CIA officer and now head of the Quincy Institute’s Grand Strategy program, said…
“The Biden administration seems to be recognizing that the story of the Russians blowing up their very own pipeline wasn’t holding any water.
“This doesn’t imply (that The New York Times story) is mistaken, but it certain does increase questions in my mind as to what goes on here.”
Interference within the overseas affairs of other nations by the US? Surely not..