CAN A FACEBOOK ALGORITHM BE DUMBER THAN MAZIE HIRONO?

Yes.  We flagged this Babylon Bee story as all in good fun, with just enough Puritan era flavor to merit circulation.

That's not how the Facebook algorithms saw it.

Facebook, Twitter, et. al. know full well that the Babylon Bee is satire. But since the Bee spoofs liberals and political correctness, their self-appointed betters in media will not tolerate such humor. So they will pick away at it little by little until (they hope) the site meets a virtual death.

However, Dillon and the rest of the crew at the Babylon Bee are standing tough. Dillon tweeted their defiance, saying that they “will not be editing the article” in order to gain Facebook’s favor.

Nor should they. There's a long insurgent tradition of mocking the intolerant Left, where the mockable stuff is a gift that keeps on giving.

That might not end well for Facebook or the other information services.

What Facebook is doing to the Bee might seem more trivial, but it’s not. The idea that you cannot even make a 45-year-old joke about a Democratic politician without losing your ability to make an income on Facebook ought to tick you off. Who’s next? Big Tech has way too much power, and they’re using it to silence conservatives on matters both serious and silly.

Who do they hire at Facebook to make these decisions? Facebook — and Twitter, and Amazon, and Google — deserve what’s eventually coming to them. Did you hear about the Justice Department’s big antitrust lawsuit filed today against Google? That’s going to take years to resolve, but I hope that both Republicans and Democrats understand that the power of Big Tech over the lives and livelihoods of ordinary Americans is a bad thing.

With respect to the hiring decisions, perhaps I'm wrongly slagging the algorithms. Might be their cheap Chinese hirelings with no cultural competence.  As far as the antitrust suit, well, sometimes those can be used as trolling operations.  The outgoing Johnson administration filed an antitrust investigation of IBM with the (fulfilled) expectation that the Nixon administration would be too cowardly to drop it, and it carried on into the Reagan administration, by which time computer technologies and telephone technologies were sufficiently entwined and networked that a monopoly in mainframes was as a monopoly of buggy whips.  In like manner, would an incoming Biden administration have to keep an investigation of Google going if for no other reason than to keep up their interventionist credibility?