Monday morning, New South Wales time – Sunday night to Americans like me living on the east coast – the Australian published an exposé titled, ” Antic reveals Canberra silenced Covid posts.”
Through a freedom of information request, a conservative Australian senator named Alex Antic revealed that the country’s Department of Home Affairs between 2017 and 2022 made “13,636 referrals to digital platforms to review content against their own terms of service.” Of those, 9000 were terrorism-related, but a full 4,213 were listed as “Covid-19 related” referrals.
