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Medium censoring an article on Covid-19

7 points by raintrees ↗ HN
It currently gets a 410 "article under investigation" notice.

https://medium.com/six-four-six-nine/evidence-over-hysteria-covid-19-1b767def5894

Article cites data sources of WHO, CDC, etc. Almost like Medium oversight does not think those sources should be trusted?

I do hope they read it and reverse the block, it is an excellent write-up with extensive sources to back it up.

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sigmaprimus
Well it's still up on a lot of other sites, including catholic.com. I just skimmed over it, and it seems more like a political rant than a news article but then again thats what most articles on medium are.
raintrees
Interesting... I did not see much politics when I went through it. Interesting how my mind works...
muzani
There's a lot of bad information articles going around, a lot of newsjacking in the guise of a helpful article. The kind of malicious people who do this now SEO well. For a long time, a search for "Is lemon acidic?" would come up that's lemons are an alkaline. And you have people gaming FB's fact check by making a true statement and then attaching a background that trigger's FB's false news image AI, which will post something like "this is fact checked as false" yet still post it fully so it doesn't look like censorship.

So the short of it is that with all the fake and dangerous information going around, the media has been aggressive in filtering content.

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