Elon Musk slams Facebook for 'manipulating the public almost everywhere on Earth'

X owner Elon Musk on Wednesday accused Facebook of “manipulating the public” in the latest escalation in the ongoing war of words with his possible “cage match” foe Mark Zuckerberg. Musk shredded Zuckerberg in response to an exposé by Sky News Australia, which alleged in a sweeping report that Meta-owned Facebook has been bankrolling a fact-checking operation that has purportedly censored political content ahead of a key Australian referendum. “Facebook is manipulating the public almost everywhere on Earth,” Musk wrote on his rebranded site formerly known as Twitter. “That is why they won’t open-source their algorithm.” The report claimed the Meta-funded Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology has repeatedly placed fact checks on posts that expressed opinions or views opposed to the creation of a proposed “Voice to Parliament” that would advocate on behalf of indigenous communities in Australia. “An audit of RMIT Voice fact checks showed the 17 Voice checks between May 3 and June 23 this year were all targeting anti-Voice opinions or views,” the report said. In 2020, both Facebook and Twitter censored The Post’s exclusive report on Hunter Biden’s laptop ahead of that year’s presidential election. Last year, Zuckerberg admitted that Facebook was wrong to ban the sharing
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