Dr Mercola quits Facebook

As you probably know, Facebook has promised to combat “fake news” on its platform, but its censorship doesn’t end at blatantly fake news articles — far from it. Information that is unfavorable to Facebook (or its advertisers) keeps getting censored out as well.

One example was the censoring of U.S. presidential candidate Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass. Warren is an outspoken proponent of breaking up monopolies such as Amazon, Facebook and Google, and has vowed to introduce “sweeping new regulation of Silicon Valley,” should she be elected president.^1,2

Three of Warren’s ads were reportedly removed by Facebook in March 2019, with a message saying the ads were deleted because they went “against Facebook’s advertising policies.” Warren took to Twitter to comment on the removal, saying this is an example of why her proposal is so sorely needed.

Facebook is also “hiding” content that is critical of vaccines, and has barred “ads that contain “misinformation” about vaccines.”³ It’s likely only a matter of time before the platform starts censoring other health-related content as well — anything that doesn’t parrot the drug industry’s propaganda — as is already being done by Google.

In May 2019, Google updated its quality rater guidelines^4,5 in such a way that even expert views are now buried if deemed “harmful to the public.” Google used to rank pages based on whether an author could prove their expertise based on how many people visited a page or the number of other reputable sites that linked to that page. It no longer works that way. Now, if a page is deemed harmful to the public, it gets the lowest possible rating regardless of expertise.

Mercola.com will no longer maintain a Facebook presence

Earlier this year I issued a poll to see how you would feel about my leaving Facebook. The results arrived in late March 2019, with just over 65% agreeing with my decision to withdraw from the platform.

https://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2019/08/13/mercola-leaving-facebook.aspx?utm_source=dnl&utm_medium=email&utm_content=art1&utm_campaign=20190813Z2&et_cid=DM309988&et_rid=684688003

So, as of today, Mercola.com will no longer maintain an active Facebook page. The page will remain, but no further posts will be made. Anyone who has been following me on Facebook is urged to sign up as a subscriber to my newsletter instead.

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Why I’m leaving Facebook