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Meta Oversight Board Member Calls for US Societal Approach to Censor

Yet another Meta Oversight Board member has raised the alarm about so-called “bad actors” trying to undermine the electoral process — but rest assured she has the solutions to these problems: a whole of society approach to censoring speech.

Meta Oversight Board Member Helle Thorning-Schmidt, the former Denmark prime minister turned alleged election expert, talked out both sides of her mouth in an op-ed calling on Big Tech to crack down on so-called “disinformation” — a common euphemism used by the left to censor online speech with which they disagree. At the same time, she stated that companies “must tailor their policies to basic principles of transparency and freedom of expression.” She warned that if we’re “not careful,” 2024 could be the year that “fracture[s] democracy.” She also specifically called for governments to help in…

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