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Why did Facebook reject The Spectator’s Joe Biden cover?

7 January 2023

5:13 AM

7 January 2023

5:13 AM

Earlier this week, I was asked to list the three biggest threats to the media. Aside from the general sales decline of newspapers, I said, the threat of bot censorship – and the lack of accountability from the firms who apply it. We at The Spectator have just come across a classic example of this, when Facebook refused to publish this week’s cover satirising Joe Biden when we submitted it as an advert.

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