“We often think of this as an issue of private companies setting independent terms of service. But officials in Washington, London, and around the world regularly use hearings and other carrots and sticks to prompt new censorship. That’s especially concerning, he says, because ‘no government in ­history has ever been able to exert such extensive control over what is being said, read, and shared … across the world.’ Mchangama points out that in the last quarter of 2017, Facebook deleted 1.6 million pieces of content for ‘hate speech.’ In the last quarter of 2020, the company deleted 26 million.” – World News Group, August 25, 2022