One of the unsettling things that came out of the "Facebook Files" is the revelation of an unusual official policy that controlled the platform during the COVID-19 years.
“For content that doesn’t meet that threshold, we instituted borderline demotions,” the company wrote on July 16, 2021. “For example, someone sharing negative side effect posts. Similarly, posts question whether you get a vaccine under a mandate, whether it’s government overreach. We demote those. That’s not false infor...
