just this week the tech giant suspended the account of some of its biggest critics. researchers with nyu cybersecurity for democracy project the group study is the way of misinformation is shared on facebook often calling attention to problems on the tech giant s platform but not anymore. facebook says the group violated its terms of service. joining me now to react policy director at cpi rachel bovard. rachel, thank you so much for coming on. i am not surprised at all that facebook would silence its critics whether they come from the right or the left. are you amazed anymore at the audacity at which they approach this silencing project? never, and i m not surprised here either. because what is very clear is that facebook doesn t want proletariat the normies asking any question about how they run their business. i think what s really instructive about this example in particular is the tool that these nyu researchers had created called ad observer