{"id":56048,"date":"2020-12-17T20:33:41","date_gmt":"2020-12-18T01:33:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=56048"},"modified":"2020-12-17T20:35:56","modified_gmt":"2020-12-18T01:35:56","slug":"instagram-is-using-false-fact-checking-to-protect-joe-bidens-crime-record-from-criticisms","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=56048","title":{"rendered":"Instagram is Using False \u201cFact-Checking\u201d to Protect Joe Biden\u2019s Crime Record From Criticisms"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Instagram is Using False \u201cFact-Checking\u201d to Protect Joe Biden\u2019s Crime Record From Criticisms<\/a><\/h3>\n

The Facebook-owned platform\u2019s denunciation of a well-established view of Biden shows the dangers of internet censorship and the fraudulent use of \u201cfact-checking.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Presidential candidates former vice president Joe Biden, Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.), and Sen. Kamala Harris (D-Calif.) during the Democratic presidential debate at Tyler Perry Studios on Wednesday, November 20, 2019, in Atlanta, Georgia. (Photo by Toni L. Sandys\/The Washington Post via Getty Images)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n

A long-standing and vehement criticism<\/strong>\u00a0of Joe Biden is that legislation he championed as a Senator in the 1980s and 1990s, particularly his crime bill of 1994, contributed to the mass incarceration of Americans generally and African-Americans specifically.<\/p>\n

Among the many on the left and libertarian right who have voiced this criticism (along with President Trump<\/a>) is then-Senator Kamala Harris,\u00a0who said<\/a>\u00a0during the 2020 Democratic primary race that Biden\u2019s \u201ccrime bill — that 1994 crime bill — it did contribute to mass incarceration in our country.\u201d When Hillary Clinton was running for President in 2015, Bill Clinton, who as president signed Biden\u2019s bill into law,\u00a0told the NAACP<\/a>: \u201cI signed a bill that made the problem worse. And I want to admit it.\u201d<\/p>\n

Sen. Cory Booker (D-NJ)\u00a0told Biden during a 2019 presidential debate<\/a>: \u201cThere are people right now in prison for life for drug offenses because you stood up and used that tough-on-crime phony rhetoric that got a lot of people elected but destroyed communities like mine.\u201d Booker then said in an\u00a0interview with\u00a0<\/a>The Huffington Post<\/a><\/em>\u00a0that that Biden\u2019s \u201ccrime bill was shameful, what it did to black and brown communities like mine [and] low-income communities from Appalachia to rural Iowa,\u201d also denouncing it for \u201coverwhelmingly putting people in prison for nonviolent drug offenses that members of Congress and the Senate admit to breaking now.\u201d<\/p>\n

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NBC News<\/em>, May 15, 2019<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n

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Instagram is Using False \u201cFact-Checking\u201d to Protect Joe Biden\u2019s Crime Record From Criticisms The Facebook-owned platform\u2019s denunciation of a well-established view of Biden shows the dangers of internet censorship and the fraudulent use of \u201cfact-checking.\u201d Presidential candidates former vice president Joe Biden, Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.), and Sen. Kamala Harris (D-Calif.) during the Democratic presidential […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[1493,5437,9746,1320,655,1169,5079],"class_list":["post-56048","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-liberty","tag-facebook","tag-glenn-greenwald","tag-instagram","tag-joe-biden","tag-propaganda","tag-social-media","tag-suppression"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56048","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=56048"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56048\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":56050,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56048\/revisions\/56050"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=56048"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=56048"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=56048"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}