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Google is finally being sued by the DOJ and 11 states (so far) over anti-trust issues.

Facebook and Twitter have tried to suppress the Hunter Biden story. Their rational includes claims that the stories are "unverified" which is bizarre because social media sites have never been verifying whether things posted on there are true in the past.

An MIT analysis concluded that social media's efforts to suppress the story increased the amount of attention paid to it.

Now Facebook has demonetized the satirical website "Babylon Bee" for this story:


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