Meme - Gary McQuiggin @ggaaarrryyyy: "It's not censorship when a private company decides to remove you from it's platform. You don't have an inalienable right to a Twitter account."
Gary MeQuiggin: "Whether or not you agree with what we publish, it shouldn't be the whim of giant tech companies to delete us overnight with no explanation."
Novara Media: Anger as news site has YouTube shut down 'without explanation' - "THE editors of left-wing, independent news website Novara have expressed their anger after their YouTube channel was shut down “without warning or explanation”."
How Much Real-World Extremism Does Online Hate Actually Cause? - "A 2018 journal article entitled “Exposure to Extremist Online Content Could Lead to Violent Radicalization: A Systematic Review of Empirical Evidence” scanned the content of more than 5,000 previous studies, but found that only 11 included “tentative evidence that exposure to radical violent online material is associated with extremist online and offline attitudes, as well as the risk of committing political violence among white supremacist, neo-Nazi, and radical Islamist groups.”... The limited empirical evidence that exists on the role that online speech plays in the radicalization-to-violence journey suggests that people are primarily radicalized through experienced disaffection, face-to-face encounters, and offline relationships. Extremist propaganda alone does not turn individuals to violence, as other variables are at play. Another analysis compiled every known jihadist attack (both successful and thwarted) from 2014 to 2021 in eight Western countries. “Our findings show that the primary threat still comes from those who have been radicalized offline,” the authors concluded. “[They] are greater in number, better at evading detection by security officials, more likely to complete a terrorist attack successfully and more deadly when they do so.” Even less scientific rigor has been applied to the presumption that removing hate speech and misinformation from social media platforms will have a net positive result. While we will not see the true impact of recent social-media content restrictions imposed by such sites as Facebook, Google, and Twitter, a 2019 study from George Washington University detailed a model that predicted “policing within a single platform (such as Facebook) can make matters worse, and will eventually generate global ‘dark pools’ in which online hate will flourish.”... Big Tech censorship policies can be expected to cause a migration of information from large-scale platforms (where feedback from a general population may serve to counter and moderate extreme views) to smaller platforms, where extreme beliefs can be reinforced by others who have also been banned by larger platforms. This creates powerful echo chambers in which controversial ideas are reinforced and then carefully reworded for reintroduction into mainstream social-media spaces. Moreover, enhanced efforts to police large-scale platforms promote further narratives of censorship and victimhood, and can thereby increase the commitment level of those who have already invested in the extremist message"
Twitter flags Trump tweet on protesters for including 'threat of harm' - "Twitter on Tuesday added an advisory to one of President Trump's tweets that threatened protesters seeking to establish an "autonomous zone" in Washington, D.C., saying it violated the platform's rules against abusive behavior. "This Tweet violated the Twitter Rules about abusive behavior. However, Twitter has determined that it may be in the public’s interest for the Tweet to remain accessible," reads the advisory added to Trump's tweet. The president had tweeted Tuesday morning that any attempt to establish an "autonomous zone" in the nation's capital "will be met with serious force." Twitter added a notice roughly six hours later stating the tweet violated its policies... "There will never be an 'Autonomous Zone' in Washington, D.C., as long as I’m your President. If they try they will be met with serious force!"... White House press secretary Kayleigh McEnany asserted that Twitter's action was silencing Trump's push for "law and order" across the country. "Twitter labeled it 'abusive behavior' for the President of the United States to say that he will enforce the law," she tweeted. "Twitter says it is 'abusive' to prevent rioters from forcibly seizing territory to set up a lawless zone in our capital.""
Ironic, given how much liberals condemn the Confederacy for being traitors for trying to secede
Meme - Right Wing Watch: "Folks at Infowars are crying "censorship," but the terms of service on their own site contain the same rules being applied to them on others. From Infowars' own terms of service: "It is not censorship if you violate the rules and your post is deleted.""
Right Wing Watch: "Our efforts to expose the bigoted view and dangerous conspiracy theories spread by right-wing activists has now resulted in @YouTube banning our channel and removing thousands of our videos. We attempted to appeal this decision, and YouTube rejected it."
Sadly, they quickly got reinstated
Meme - "He who dares not offend cannot be honest. Thomas Paine"
"Your Story Goes Against Our Community Guidelines. We removed your story because it goes against our Community Guidelines. We created these guidelines to support and protect our community on Instagram. Story removed for false information"
Facebook ‘Hate Speech’ Algorithm Found 90% of Hate Speech Directed at White People
The actual line was: "One April 2020 document said roughly 90 percent of “hate speech” subject to content takedowns were statements of contempt, inferiority and disgust directed at White people and men"
Facebook is overhauling its hate speech algorithms - The Washington Post - "Facebook to start policing anti-Black hate speech more aggressively than anti-White comments, documents show"
Facebook ranks anti-Black hate speech over comments about white people - "Facebook puts a higher priority on detecting and deleting racist slurs and hate speech against Black people, Muslims, Jews, the LGBTQ community and people of more than one race than on statements such as “White people are stupid” and “Men are pigs.” The company said Thursday its automated moderation systems are being retrained to focus on hate speech targeting historically marginalized and oppressed groups, which “can be the most harmful.”... Facebook still considers statements about men and white people to be in violation of its hate speech policy, and users can still report these statements, but the company’s algorithms will no longer automatically flag and delete them, resulting in about 10,000 fewer posts being removed each day... One of the challenges, Black users said, is the dearth of underrepresented minorities at Facebook, particularly in positions of influence, after years of failed pledges to close the racial gap."
So much for neutrality. I still see people pretending they're neutral
Given that white people are more liberal than black people, bringing in more blacks may not have the effect that they imagine
Sabrina Maddeaux: Facebook, Twitter are silencing China critics and it is corrosive to our democracy - "Twitter suspended six accounts affiliated with Optimum Publishing International, including Optimum’s main account and five others promoting its books. For the unfamiliar, this isn’t some random conspiracy peddler. Optimum is a highly-respected Canadian indie publisher that’s operated for over 50 years. Their recent titles include investigative reporter Sam Cooper’s Wilful Blindness, which seeks to hold the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) and Canadian politicians to account for the criminal network of CCP agents, narcos, and tycoons that’s infiltrated the West, and professor of public ethics Clive Hamilton’s Hidden Hand, which critiques how the CCP aims to reshape the world in its image. The Hidden Hand promotional account was one of the six suspended without explanation. Prior to the sudden suspension, Optimum shared tweets denouncing Senator Yuen Pau Woo’s campaign to defeat a parliamentary resolution regarding the Uyghur genocide. While Optimum eventually regained control of its accounts, it took repeated unanswered inquiries to Twitter over the course of a week and a small swell of public outrage before the social media network restored them following an appeal. Now, Facebook has arbitrarily scrubbed the account of data analyst and co-founder of Better Dwelling, Canada’s largest indie housing news outlet, Stephen Punwasi. They also removed all of Better Dwelling’s page managers. This happened after the outlet posted a one-minute clip from an interview with Wilful Blindness author Sam Cooper. See a pattern yet? In the utterly innocuous clip, Cooper talks about illicit drug funds being transferred from China through Canadian banks and into our real estate market, including a case study where a woman who declared herself a student bought a $15 million mansion in Vancouver followed by a $14 million mansion. According to Cooper, this was achieved via a family transfer of $100 million from China where her father is wanted on bribery and corruption charges. The phenomenon of “students” and low-income earners buying luxury real estate in Canada via funds of dubious origin isn’t some wacko conspiracy theory; it’s well-documented throughout not just mainstream media, but British Columbia’s own Commission into of Inquiry into Money Laundering and FINTRAC, Canada’s anti-money laundering agency... As criticism of China has ramped up in Western nations, so has the unexplained silencing of its critics on social media networks. It isn’t just happening in Canada. In July, Twitter temporarily suspended the account of respected New Zealand academic Anne-Marie Brady over a tweet that lightly mocked Chinese president Xi Jinping. In the wake of his Facebook cancellation, Punwasi astutely tweeted, “If I was in charge of a digital army, I wouldn’t hack Facebook. I would make my spies get jobs moderating content and have them shape opinions. Virtually no vetting, low paid, and outside contractors.” It could be a coincidence that accounts that promote the work of Canada’s foremost investigative journalist on Chinese organized crime and money laundering keep getting summarily reported and banned… or it could not."
Facebook and Instagram ban BlazeTV reporter Elijah Schaffer
Perma Banned - Posts | Facebook - "Fancy how Twitter still won't touch Bestiality tweets and accounts. Goes to show that their Community Standards don't mean a thing unless it benefits them as always, it was never about morality or "doing what's right"."
Stephen L. Miller on Twitter - "Politico’s Ben Schreckinger on the Biden family’s shady business dealings. “I found a number of incidents in which there were scandals, questions of favorable treatment surrounding some of their business dealings going all the way back to the 1970s.”"
"Gosh if only there were some way to report on this stuff a year ago."
Welcome to the PMRC, Neil Young - "You’re reading this newsletter courtesy of Substack, which has yet to censor me or warn me or interfere with me in any way. Every word in every newsletter I’ve published is mine and mine alone. Now Jack Dorsey, ex-CEO of Twitter, is pushing a rival newsletter app called Ghost. And suddenly he wants to be my pal... If he wants me to switch, first he needs to apologize for his previous app suspending me because I published a photo from Hunter Biden’s abandoned laptop a few weeks before the 2020 presidential election. Why would I trust Jack Dorsey?"
‘Did Joe Rogan Just End Twitter?’: Rogan Announces He’s Joined Twitter Competitor GETTR - "On other social media platforms, like Telegram, Greene responded by highlighting Twitter’s inconsistent rules. “Maxine Waters can go to the streets and threaten violence on Twitter, Kamala and Ilhan can bail out Black Lives Matter terrorists on Twitter, CNN and the rest of the Democrat Propaganda Media can spread Russia collusion lies, and just yesterday the Chief spokesman for terrorist IRGC can tweet mourning Soleimani, but I get suspended for tweeting VAERS statistics,” the representative posted. “Twitter is an enemy to America and can’t handle the truth.”"
Facebook reverses course after 'permanently' locking account of conservative children's book publisher - "Meta, the company that owns Facebook, has reinstated the ads account of the conservative children's book publisher, Heroes of Liberty, after it previously told the publisher that its account had been "permanently disabled." Facebook originally said that Heroes of Liberty – which has published books about Supreme Court Justice Amy Coney Barrett, former President Ronald Reagan and author Thomas Sowell – violated the company's rules against "Low Quality or Disruptive Content." Facebook originally locked the ads account on Dec. 23, and after Heroes of Liberty appealed the ruling, the company permanently disabled the account... "They proactively reached out to several members of Congress and told *them* it was a mistake and we’re back online. Those offices told us," Heroes of Liberty editor and board member Bethany Mandel confirmed to FOX Business on Monday. "They didn’t reach out to us."... Heroes of Liberty used the ads account to promote and sell the books. During its last month on the platform – between Nov. 23 and Dec. 23 – the account promoted 68 ads, and 95.2% of the money spent on ads in this period went to ads that were ranked "average" or "above average" in Facebook's quality score. Only three ads were rated below "average""
One Facebook defender claimed that zuccs that arise from an overly aggressive algorithm are reversed on appeal so there's no problem. So much for that
Facebook court filing: 'fact checks' are 'protected opinions' - "The court filing was entered in response to a lawsuit filed by the Libertarian pundit John Stossel, who claimed that one of Facebook’s “fact checks” inserted on a video defamed him and was misleading... Opinions are protected from libel accusations, releasing the person or entity that made the statements from liability. On the other hand, statements labeled as fact make the person or entity making them subject to a libel lawsuit for defamation. Whatever decision is made by the court, the filing and the lawsuit are a public relations disaster for Meta Platforms. The statement in the court filing that the so-called “fact checks” are nothing but “protected opinions” places Facebook in a precarious position. If the court doesn’t agree with the claim made by Meta Platforms’ attorneys, then the company is liable for libel and defamation of character. On the other hand, if the court does accept their claim, then it indicates that Meta Platforms has long been misleading its users by claiming that its fact checks were actual checks of the facts rather than someone’s opinion."
Open letter from The BMJ to Mark Zuckerberg - "We are Fiona Godlee and Kamran Abbasi, editors of The BMJ, one of the world’s oldest and most influential general medical journals. We are writing to raise serious concerns about the “fact checking” being undertaken by third party providers on behalf of Facebook/Meta. In September, a former employee of Ventavia, a contract research company helping carry out the main Pfizer covid-19 vaccine trial, began providing The BMJ with dozens of internal company documents, photos, audio recordings, and emails. These materials revealed a host of poor clinical trial research practices occurring at Ventavia that could impact data integrity and patient safety. We also discovered that, despite receiving a direct complaint about these problems over a year ago, the FDA did not inspect Ventavia’s trial sites. The BMJ commissioned an investigative reporter to write up the story for our journal. The article was published on 2 November, following legal review, external peer review and subject to The BMJ’s usual high level editorial oversight and review. But from November 10, readers began reporting a variety of problems when trying to share our article. Some reported being unable to share it. Many others reported having their posts flagged with a warning about “Missing context ... Independent fact-checkers say this information could mislead people.” Those trying to post the article were informed by Facebook that people who repeatedly share “false information” might have their posts moved lower in Facebook’s News Feed. Group administrators where the article was shared received messages from Facebook informing them that such posts were “partly false.” Readers were directed to a “fact check” performed by a Facebook contractor named Lead Stories. We find the “fact check” performed by Lead Stories to be inaccurate, incompetent and irresponsible.
-- It fails to provide any assertions of fact that The BMJ article got wrong
-- It has a nonsensical title: “Fact Check: The British Medical Journal Did NOT Reveal Disqualifying And Ignored Reports Of Flaws In Pfizer COVID-19 Vaccine Trials”
-- The first paragraph inaccurately labels The BMJ a “news blog”
-- It contains a screenshot of our article with a stamp over it stating “Flaws Reviewed,” despite the Lead Stories article not identifying anything false or untrue in The BMJ article
-- It published the story on its website under a URL that contains the phrase “hoax-alert”...
We are aware that The BMJ is not the only high quality information provider to have been affected by the incompetence of Meta’s fact checking regime. To give one other example, we would highlight the treatment by Instagram (also owned by Meta) of Cochrane, the international provider of high quality systematic reviews of the medical evidence"
The BMJ is fake news and dangerous disinformation. Time to ban it!
Cochrane on Twitter - "🤔 Um, @instagram you got this one wrong! @cochranecollab and @CochraneLibrary continue to be there for those looking to use high-quality information to make #health decisions. Learn more: https://t.co/8q0IowNp9u And search our evidence"
Nolte: Fake Fact Checkers Smeared Rand Paul as Liar over 'Gain of Function' - "Now that the sociopaths at the National Institute of Health (NIH) have finally admitted to funding gain of function research — which we all knew to be the case — it’s time to once again look back at all the fake fact checkers who furthered the lie that the NIH did NOT fund gain of function."
Jordan Schachtel @ dossier.substack.com on Twitter - "They kicked Donald Trump off of Twitter. Meanwhile, the leader of Hamas is on this platform celebrating "the bombing of Tel Aviv.""
Gad Saad on Twitter - "Google will ban ads and stop funding media that contradict scientific consensus on climate change"
"Nearly EVERY great scientific breakthrough is defined by the fact that it shook up the existing scientific consensus. We are truly progressing toward the Dark Ages."
Michael Tracey on Twitter - "You cannot create an "alternative" to Google, Apple, Facebook, Amazon, and Twitter at this point, they are collectively more powerful than most if not all nation states"
Facebook - "Carrying out an experiment on the hair trigger hypothesis / report enforcement by Facebook. Here we have a commenter calling another person a i-word*, and that apparently doesn't violate "community standards". Meanwhile I've seen myself get banned for calling myself horizontally challenged"
Christian Desrosiers on Twitter - "Twitter keeps banning @trial_tracker for reporting on Ghislaine Maxwell’s trial. Incredible. This platform has clearly picked a side."
Hillel Neuer on Twitter - "Prediction: Ben and Jerry's will never announce a boycott of the Taliban."
".@Facebook has been demoting my content since August 17th because my post below "goes against our community standards on dangerous individuals and organizations." Do you agree with Facebook that it's a "violation" for me to call out the 🏴☠️ Taliban terrorists & @benandjerrys?"
Minds cuts major features from Play Store app version after Google threatened to deplatform it - "Bill Ottman, CEO of the open-source, free speech social network Minds has revealed that several key features will no longer be available in the Google Play store version of the Minds app after Google sent a 24-hour warning... Ottman suggested that Minds was targeted by Google over “controversial speech” and that apps where most of the user-generated posts are encrypted and there is little public content are allowed to remain on the app stores... Although Minds has made these changes in an attempt to stay in the Google Play store, Ottman noted that the platform has “multiple escape pods ready to go” if Amazon attempts to deplatform the app from its web hosting services. Google’s threat to deplatform Minds is yet another reminder of how a small number of trillion-dollar tech giants control most of the major alt-tech distribution channels and can leverage their control over these channels to squeeze out alternatives and competitors."
CCG BRYSON on Twitter - "My song “Safe Space” has been banned on Spotify. This is America now."
Meme - Google Autocomplete: "Why censorship
why censorship is important
why censorship is necessary
why censorship is important for us
why censorship is good in schools"
Facebook - "They are algorithmically suppressing satire now. This is how you know you're over the target. They cannot stand satire and mockery of their clownery. Break up Big Tech NOW."
Fact check: Social media post underrepresents slave ownership in 1860 - "The claim: Only 1.6% of U.S. citizens owned slaves in 1860... “So you can stop basing your hate for an entire race for the actions of a mere 1.6%,” the 2019 Twitter post says. “Am I right?”... about 1.4% of free people were classified as slave owners in the 1860 census, according to data archived by the Integrated Public Use Microdata Series at the University of Minnesota. That’s slightly different from the 1.6% in the July 11 Facebook post. Historians, though, say that statistic is hugely misleading since it both wrongly factors in the entirety of the non-slave-owning states and ignores that families owned and had power over slaves, not just one individual adult."
The Ministry of Truth is at it again!
Facebook - "In a truly incredible action, @youtube / @TeamYouTube / @SusanWojcicki have placed a clip from 5+ years ago (audio of a lecture that I delivered at the University of Ottawa) as age-restricted. Apparently, it would be dangerous for a child to learn about freedom of inquiry."
Instagram Apologizes After Removing A Movie Poster Because It Shows A Nipple - "Instagram's parent company Facebook told The Associated Press on Wednesday that several images of the poster for "Madres Paralelas," which shows a lactating nipple, were removed "for breaking our rules against nudity""
Disqus’ De-Platforming of Frontpage - "Disqus is de-platforming us. They have refused to respond to inquiries seeking further explanation. Disqus has taken on faith the libelous accusations of the Southern Poverty Law Center, a widely-discredited, partisan group that frequently characterizes mainstream conservative organizations as “hate groups.”"
EXCLUSIVE YouTube takes down Xinjiang videos, forcing rights group to seek alternative - "A human rights group that attracted millions of views on YouTube to testimonies from people who say their families have disappeared in China's Xinjiang region is moving its videos to little-known service Odysee after some were taken down by the Google-owned (GOOGL.O) streaming giant... The group, credited by international organizations like Human Rights Watch for drawing attention to human rights violations in Xinjiang, has come under fire from Kazakh authorities since its founding in 2017... "They're just facts," Bilash said to Reuters in a phone interview, referring to the content of Atajurt's videos. "The people giving the testimonies are talking about their loved ones." Atajurt Kazakh Human Rights' channel has published nearly 11,000 videos on YouTube totaling over 120 million views since 2017, thousands of which feature people speaking to camera about relatives they say have disappeared without a trace in China's Xinjiang region, where UN experts and rights groups estimate over a million people have been detained in recent years."
The CIA has such a huge budget!
The tankie must be finding some way to blame this all on Adrian Zenz making up numbers
Peter J. Hasson on Twitter - "The policy, established in 2018, prohibits the use of our service to distribute content obtained without authorization. We don’t want to incentivize hacking by allowing Twitter to be used as distribution for possibly illegally obtained materials."
"Can you imagine the freakout if twitter censored the NYT story about the president’s tax returns on the grounds it was “content obtained without authorization”? What a joke standard"
An0maly - Posts | Facebook - "Facebook “restricted” my page yesterday for accurately Fact-Checking Jen Psaki on her public lie about FDA Approval. Today this comes out. Why are they allowed to delete the clear truth & cover up for liars?"
Twitter Blocks 'Potentially Harmful' Links to Sidney Powell Election Lawsuit - "Twitter is blocking users from sharing links to lawyer Sidney Powell’s lawsuit relating to widespread voter fraud in the 2020 Presidential election."
Lauren Boebert on Twitter - "Poland and Hungary both sprung into action combatting social media censorship. They went through Communism and know how it ends. This Democrat obsession with censorship and silencing critics leads to an ugly place. The rest of the world sees it. When will we?"
Escape The Echo Chamber - Posts | Facebook - "Social media censorship is a blunt instrument that removes the opportunity to discuss complex topics. Here, Instagram marked as false a photo stating the 1994 crime bill brought mass incarceration to black Americans. Instagram relied on a writer for USA Today who ruled the claim false. The author’s logic is interesting. Though the crime bill did increase the length of prison sentences and prison populations grew 27% over the next seven years the author argues that prison populations grew more leading up to the bill. And while more blacks were being incarcerated, they remained about the same percentage of the total prison population. Based on that criteria the author argued that the crime bill did not increase black incarceration though more blacks were being incarcerated. The author was a foreign affairs journalist, not a criminal justice expert. His argument is deemed ‘fact’ because he works for a large publication. Meanwhile those who disagree are labeled ‘false’ regardless of their expertise or argument. This is a non-dialectic process that doesn’t improve understanding"
Meme - "Nicholas J. Fuentes @ @NickJFuentes So I'm on my way to a press conference to discuss how I've been banned from nearly all social media and tech services, and then I find out that I can't even get there because I've been put on a no-fly list. This is overt political persecution. America is not a free country."
Lauren Chen on Twitter - "Nick Fuentes is now on a no-fly list. "Just build your own airline"
You don't have to agree with his politics or methods to think there's a problem when people are increasingly barred from public life for their opinions. If you're mainstream GOP and don't think this is going to happen to you eventually, you're not paying attention."
Neighborhood social media app "Nextdoor" proudly launches "anti-racism notification" to warn you before you post potentially racist language such as "all lives matter." - "From an announcement earlier this year: All Lives Matter and Blue Lives Matter content is explicitly prohibited when used to undermine racial equality or the Black Lives Matter movement...
Today, we are also taking steps to further align our community guidelines and policies with our company values and support for the Black Lives Matter movement.
They aren't throwing their support behind the lower-case concept of "black lives matter." No one would argue with that. They are specifically supporting the upper-case and explicitly racist, grifting, neo-Marxist "movement" Black Lives Matter. That is what they are not permitting you to "undermine." But they totally want to foster conversations about it."
To liberals, "conversations" are actually monologues where the side with the Gospel Truth "educates" the other
BREAKING: Twitter Suspends National File’s Hadfield for Celebrating Twitter’s Decision to Reverse Publication’s Suspension - "National File’s Jack Hadfield has been locked out of his Twitter account for 12 hours for celebrating the Big Tech platform’s decision to reverse the suspension of the National File account. On Monday, National File was locked out of their official Twitter account for tweeting out a story covering the tragic death of a 13-year-old boy from Michigan who passed away only three days after receiving his second dose of the COVID-19 vaccine from Pfizer. The 12 hour lock-out was down to the tweet having allegedly violated the Twitter rules, specifically regarding their policy on “spreading misleading and potentially harmful information related to COVID-19... “If I had to describe this situation in one word, it would be ‘ironic’,” Hadfield said. “How on Earth can Twitter reverse the suspension of a news outlet, and then lock out that same reporter from his personal account, for using almost identical language in their tweets? If this is yet another ‘error’ on Twitter’s part, it is certainly concerning that these ‘errors’ only ever seem to go in one direction.”... Twitter claimed earlier this month that the suspension of the Informed Consent Action Network for tweeting that they would publish emails from Anthony Fauci was also in “error,” with their account also being restored following a National File inquiry."
STUNNERS OF THE WORLD | Facebook - "ASS - ARSE - BOOTY. BUTT - BUM"
"Dear members. A very important heads up. Facebook does NOT ALLOW the words listed in the graphic above to be dropped in comments. It is considered harassment by FB. We are fully aware that it is ridiculous but your comments will be removed by the bots and you risk being muted or blocked if you keep doing it. Don't do it."
Twitter refuses to remove fake Chicago Police tweet defending Derek Chauvin - "A fake tweet saying "we are all Derek Chauvin" has garnered hundreds of thousands of impressions, after Twitter refused to flag the post as disinformation... users reported others for sharing the fake post to Twitter, but it was not removed. The Chicago Police Department asked for the social media site to remove or flag the fake image as misinformation, and Twitter refused to do so. Twitter's "synthetic and manipulated media policy" clearly states that "you may not share deceptively altered media on Twitter in ways that mislead or deceive people" and states that said media will be labelled or removed to stop the spread of misinformation. Chicago Police say they complained about the tweet on three separate occasions, to which Twitter said that they "reviewed the content, and didn’t find a violation of their policies, so no action will be taken at this time," Then, Twitter changed their story to say that they did not feel they needed to remove the tweet because "overwhelming response in the replies and mentions, debunking or refuting the authenticity of the tweet." Chicago Police put out a statement calling the tweet "antithetical to our values" and said that Twitter refusing to act was putting "officers and communities at risk". Facebook, on the other hand, flagged the false image and displayed a warning over it to advisor viewers that the tweet was never sent by the Chicago Police Department."