Facebook: Erasing History

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If there was ever a historic photo, this was it. So Facebook censored it (“You never saw it, peasants!”)

When I was a boy, Americans used to make fun of the Soviet Union for blatantly telling lies about history and erasing historical episodes deemed unflattering to the Party.

Well, get a load of Facebook! You know that now-world-famous photo of Donald Trump raising his fist after an assassin almost killed him? Holy moly, Facebook censored it (https://www.breitbart.com/tech/2024/07/30/facebook-censors-iconic-trump-image-as-altered-image-then-admits-error/).

Later–hmm, we wonder why–they admitted they’d made “a mistake.” Then they stopped censoring the picture which, probably, almost everybody in the world had seen.

“A mistake” is something like misplacing your car keys. It’s not pretending Something Really Big never happened. Nor is it historical amnesia.

I hope we’ve learned never to expect truth from Democrats.