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“The BMJ has locked horns with Facebook and the gatekeepers of international fact checking after one of its investigations was wrongly labelled with ‘missing context’ and censored on the world’s largest social network
On Nov 3rd, Howard Kaplan, a retired dentist from Israel, posted a link to a BMJ investigation article (https://www.bmj.com/content/375/bmj.n2635) in a private Facebook group. The investigation reported poor clinical trial research practices occurring at Ventavia, a contract research company helping to carry out the main Pfizer covid-19 vaccine trial … a week after his posting Kaplan woke up to a message from Facebook …
‘Facebook’s ‘independent fact-checker’ doesn’t like the wording of the article by the BMJ … if I don’t delete my post, they are threatening to make my posts less visible. Obviously, I will not delete my post’
Kaplan was not the only Facebook user having problems. Soon, several BMJ readers were alerting the journal to Facebook’s censorship.”
