You didn’t expect the Voice debate to be free and fair, as section 128 of the Australian constitution requires, did you? As reported by Skynews.com, two Australian universities and one big Tech giant are working to “silence news coverage of the Voice to influence the referendum.” And, to boot, there is a foreign financed attempt to stifle the political debate. Yes, it is Meta, Mark Zuckerberg’s entity becoming as annoying as the Soros-backed NGOs. As the report notes: “In one case, the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology has been allowed by Facebook parent company Meta to block and deplatform Australian journalism, despite the platform knowing it was a breach of the rules Meta founder Mark Zuckerberg established to distance himself from fact checking responsibilities. Meta maintains its fact-checking operation is at arm’s length and independent, but Sky News can reveal the tech giant signed a secret commercial contract directly with RMIT which allows the fact checking unit to be paid up to $740,000 a year from an Irish Meta subsidiary.”
“The university used the powers Facebook has given it to throttle Sky News Australia’s Facebook page with false fact checks multiple times this year, breaching the Meta-endorsed IFCN Code of Principles and preventing millions of Australians from reading or watching Sky News Australia’s journalism.