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Posted on 05/08/2016 11:43:28 PM PDT by Impala64ssa
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SHARES facebook icon FACEBOOK 10537 twitter icon TWITTER email icon EMAIL more icon Facebook Admits to Censoring Conservative Websites… Steven Crowder Wednesday May 4 2016
I mean, censoring conservatives on social media really shouldn’t be shocking. Especially coming from Facebook, who actively works with other countries to censor what citizens can see (read “Zuckerberg Caugh on Live Mic Telling Merkel that Facebook Will Delete Anti-Islamic Migrant Posts” here).
But now, we’ve got the SJW leftists at Facebook on the record,
They were also told to select articles from a list of preferred media outlets that included sites like the New York Times, Time, Variety, and other traditional outlets. They would regularly avoid sites like World Star Hip Hop, The Blaze, and Breitbart, but were never explicitly told to suppress those outlets. They were also discouraged from mentioning Twitter by name in headlines and summaries, and instead asked to refer to social media in a broader context.
News curators also have the power to “deactivate” (or blacklist) a trending topic—a power that those we spoke to exercised on a daily basis. A topic was often blacklisted if it didn’t have at least three traditional news sources covering it, but otherwise the protocol was murky—meaning a curator could ostensibly blacklist a topic without a particularly good reason for doing so.
So now, whenever you hear your favorite conservative blog (like say, this one for example) talk about how their engagement and reach has suddenly taken a hit for no reason what so ever, you know why.
Listen, I understand that this is not a First Amendment issue. Facebook has the right to curate whatever they want. They have the right to boot whatever content they want. It’s a business. Okay? Okay.
The problem here is that Facebook has been actively lying about their behind-the-scenes censorship practices. They’ve also courted clients and taken millions (possibly billions) of dollars from Conservative media entities in advertising, who were presented with the concept of an open, financially viable social media platform. The problem is with Facebook changing the rules based on ideology. Yes, this has happened to us quite a bit.
Now, full disclosure, I have a direct contact at Facebook to reach when these problems arise. Here’s the issue.
A) They generally don’t respond.
B) In THIS instance, Facebook was never able to tell me which post was the problem, NOR WHICH POLICY IT VIOLATED.
How can a partner know how to distribute content in the future if Facebook won’t even tell them what the polices are, nor how the client in question violated them?
That’s the problem, and it’s by design. Facebook gets to hide behind ever-shifting guidelines (unethical-bordering-on-illegal), while claiming neutrality. The only difference is that now we know that this is not the case. We know that Facebook selectively censors voices based merely on opinion. They’ve lied about it.
That’s the problem. But are you surprised? Modern leftists are fascists. It’s the rule, not the exception. Yes, of course when it comes to freedom of speech. The progressive left believes in uniformity in all walks of life. Ideologically and yes, even economically. Case in point… Bernie Sanders.
Facebook is evil
Of course we know Zuckerberg sides with evil: they pay better...with YOUR tax dollars...: )
Especially the information about the Philippine election for my wife's Filipina friends
As far as I know, none of my posted links have been scrubbed
Good for Steven Crowder. Push back.
This whole Marxist / Muslim House of Cards is about to come crashing down any minute now.
What do you think the Left will do against a Right Wing corporations free speech? They force them to comply, while we don’t do a thing
I have never had anything to do with Facebook and I never intend to do so. It’s a horrible libtard vehicle empowered by the masses of people who think their life is so interesting that it should be posted for all to see.
The sooner FB goes the way of Myspace the better.
What right wing corporations?
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"He appears to have an amazing grasp of the perfectly obvious."
There is a need for a social media software that would integrate postings from one’s many blogs or even twitter and facebook, and end facebook that way once and for all.
Turn facebook into AOL and make social media free again
It’s a horrible libtard vehicle
yes it is, but when used properly, it can function as an excellent way to connect with old friends...many of my 1967 high school classmates are now rapidly aging hippies, steeped in the same nonsense they were fifty years ago; I simply ignore their political ramblings, and all is cool...
Facebook has become a demographic warfare device.
It could be their undoing.
A little competition is in order, with the coming conservative leaning social media “Placebook.”
Facebook is evil, but Facebook is a private entity and is free to do whatever they wish to do with posts, just as Jim Robinson is free to delete posts he or his moderators don’t like, or to zot people that they don’t approve of.
Exactly. Like anything else, it is a tool that can be used for good or bad,and we have the freedom to participate, or not. A way to stay in touch or be informed, yes, a reliable arbiter of all that is good and useful in the world, not so much.
yes, facebook is evil. However, they are their own company and if they don’t want your posts on their network, they can delete it. The reason they delete the mention of Twitter, is that Twitter is direct competition. From a business perspective I can understand that. Some one like Rush or Sean can spend money creating conservative newspapers and social media website that would and could not post liberal posts. But they choose not too.
Time to form FaithBook to replace the leftist Facebook propaganda directorate
I am with you 100% on this.
I see people who use Facebook like a crackhead uses crack.
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