CBS’s Gayle King Hijacks Corona Conversation to Push Facebook Censorship

Scott Whitlock | March 18, 2020
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[See NewsBusters for more.] Even when journalists are supposedly focusing on the growing Coronavirus health crisis, the 2020 campaign is never far from their mind. Case in point on Wednesday, CBS This Morning co-host Gayle King hijacked a discussion on COVID-19 to talk about censoring political speech. King scored an exclusive interview with Facebook’s Chief Operating Officer Sheryl Sandberg. After Sandberg explained what the company is doing to keep fake Corona information off the site, King jumped in with this unrelated point: “But, you know, Sheryl, I think it opens it up to the question of you want to make sure the information is accurate about coronavirus, but people say when it comes to politics, Facebook sometimes knowingly leaves ads up that they know are not true. Why not do that when it comes to the campaign ads, as well?”

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