The movie “Reagan,” starring Dennis Quaid as the Gipper, is set to open August 30, so you can pretty much guess Facebook’s first move: to try to dampen enthusiasm and diminish publicity for the film on their platform. Sure enough, that’s exactly what they did, according to Quaid and the movie’s marketers.
Of course, Facebook says it might have been a “mistake,” but we all know that these “mistakes” by Big Tech almost exclusively occur when the subject matter has a conservative bent.
“Facebook is once again censoring the free flow of ideas, deciding what’s best for us to see and hear; only this time it’s throttling advertising and promotion for my movie about Ronald Reagan,” the actor said via an email sent exclusively to Newsweek.
Quaid’s remarks coincide with a letter addressed to Mark Zuckerberg, the chairman and CEO of Facebook parent, Meta Platforms, that outline…
