"Since end-to-end encrypting communications on the platform as a measure to protect user privacy, Meta no longer has access to the content of messages so cannot monitor what is spreading. But the company now says it has technology to spot accounts engaging in abnormal behaviour, with 8m accounts banned a month – 75% of which are banned before those accounts are reported by users."
"[Chris Minns] said in the immediate aftermath of the attack, the NSW government liaised with the federal government and the eSafety commissioner to have pages 'that have become famous or infamous for spreading misinformation in the community' taken down."
Preemptive censorship, justified by vague claims of "spreading misinformation". This also sounds like the CCP. Democracies cannot survive casualised state censorship. Not good.