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Facebook apologizes for blocking Trump’s social media chief
NY Post ^ | March 19, 2019 | 2:06pm | Bob Fredericks

Posted on 03/19/2019 11:24:00 AM PDT by conservative98

Facebook has apologized for temporarily blocking President Trump’s social media guru, saying his postings were mistakenly reported as spam.

Before the apology, Trump tweeted that he would be “looking into this” with the hashtag “#StopTheBias.”.

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TOPICS: Chit/Chat
KEYWORDS: danscavino; facebook; fascistbook; markzuckerberg; mediabias; mediawingofthednc; partisanmediashills; presstitutes; smearmachine; trump; twitter; zuckerberg
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1 posted on 03/19/2019 11:24:00 AM PDT by conservative98
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I don’t care how big your company is. You don’t want to be on the bad side of the POTUS.


2 posted on 03/19/2019 11:25:28 AM PDT by dp0622 (The Left should know if.. Trump is kicked out of office, it is WAR)
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3 posted on 03/19/2019 11:26:02 AM PDT by conservative98
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> Facebook has apologized for temporarily blocking President Trump’s social media guru, saying his postings were mistakenly reported as spam. <

Let’s not all jump to conclusions here. Because I’m sure Facebook has, in the past, mistakenly blocked Hillary Clinton, Barack Obama, Liz Warren, etc.

/s


4 posted on 03/19/2019 11:27:11 AM PDT by Leaning Right (I have already previewed or do not wish to preview this composition.)
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To: conservative98

That was quick!


5 posted on 03/19/2019 11:29:13 AM PDT by JudyinCanada
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To: Leaning Right

social media bans based on complaints. They don’t look into the complaint to see ion it’s true. They try to protect liberal snowflakes from offense. Also they are totally open to being spoofed by people who want to shoot down conservative posters.


6 posted on 03/19/2019 11:30:03 AM PDT by morphing libertarian (I maUse Comey's Report; Indict Hillary now; build Kate's wall. --- Proud Smelly Walmart Deplorable)
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To: conservative98

Mistakenly. Riiiight.

Then Twitter can “mistakenly” be declared a utility and be regulated into the dirt, you lying SWJ sacks of crap.


7 posted on 03/19/2019 11:30:47 AM PDT by Grimmy (equivocation is but the first step along the road to capitulation)
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To: Leaning Right

Actually they blocked Liz Warren on purpose.
Had to climb down from that ledge as well.


8 posted on 03/19/2019 11:32:15 AM PDT by Buckeye McFrog
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To: conservative98

Only after ....


9 posted on 03/19/2019 11:34:34 AM PDT by SkyDancer ( ~ Just Consider Me A Random Fact Generator ~ Eat Sleep Fly Repeat ~)
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> Actually they blocked Liz Warren on purpose. <

Really? I knew Facebook had problems. But I never took them for anti-Indian bigots.


10 posted on 03/19/2019 11:35:39 AM PDT by Leaning Right (I have already previewed or do not wish to preview this composition.)
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To: conservative98
However, this passes as OK on FB:

'How to pick up Jewish chicks':

Vile antisemitic picture shows human remains on a shovel - but Facebook refused to remove it.

How_To Facebook has been accused of "enabling vicious Jewish hatred" after telling users an image depicting human remains on a shovel below the tag line "How to pick up Jewish chicks" did not breach its standards.

Just days after back flipping on its decision to censor an iconic Vietnam War photo of a naked girl escaping a napalm bombing, the social media giant is again under fire over its handling of posts reported as offensive.

In reply to complaints about the shovel image - which was widely shared, "liked" 21,000 times, and received more than 37,000 comments - Facebook said: "We reviewed the post you reported for displaying hate speech and found it doesn't violate our community standards."

Under its community standards policy, Facebook says it "removes hate speech" that attacks people based on their race, ethnicity, national origin and religious affiliation.

"We allow humour, satire or social commentary related to these topics, and we believe that when people use their authentic identity, they are more responsible when they share this kind of commentary," the policy says.

The image was posted to a page attributed to a Queensland man late last month and shared 2280 times. It has now been removed but tens of thousands of comments, many of which are anti-Semitic, were still visible in the thread as late as Thursday.

A Facebook spokesman said the image was removed for breaching community standards and that the company was still investigating.

But 24 hours after being asked, the spokesman could still not say when the photo was taken down. Facebook could also not explain why only the photo was initially removed and not the entire thread - which is standard when a post is pulled.

11 posted on 03/19/2019 11:38:27 AM PDT by SkyDancer ( ~ Just Consider Me A Random Fact Generator ~ Eat Sleep Fly Repeat ~)
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The cyberelites will have to learn that we have a First Amendment guaranteeing free speech precisely because the Founding Fathers knew that lots of people might be offended, hurt, upset by lots of things other people said, and they knew that once you got into trying to protect everyone from ever being so offended, hurt, upset, nobody would be able to say anything - so speech is protected because it can be offensive, not to make sure it never is......


12 posted on 03/19/2019 11:39:10 AM PDT by Intolerant in NJ
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They block a high profile individual and get called on it. They apologize.

They block tens of thousands of Christians and conservatives who have no voice. They get away with it.


13 posted on 03/19/2019 11:41:33 AM PDT by Responsibility2nd
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So all you need to do is report something as ‘spam’ and they automatically block it... Hmm!


14 posted on 03/19/2019 11:43:57 AM PDT by jerod (Nazi's were essentially Socialist in Hugo Boss uniforms... Get over it!)
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To: conservative98

Verdict now, trial later.
And they aren’t even embarrassed about it.


15 posted on 03/19/2019 11:47:36 AM PDT by sparklite2 (Don't mind me. I'm just a contrarian.)
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To: JudyinCanada

I read from 2016 that Trump told Zuckerberg many times he can have his company regulated..


16 posted on 03/19/2019 11:48:52 AM PDT by max americana (Fired libtards at our company for the past 12 yrs at every election. I hope all liberals die.)
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To: conservative98

So... he’s really important and they didn’t know it?
Oh, the horror.


17 posted on 03/19/2019 11:54:54 AM PDT by humblegunner
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To: conservative98

yeah mistake my ass


18 posted on 03/19/2019 12:03:51 PM PDT by Sarah Barracuda
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"They don’t look into the complaint to see ion it’s true."

It's the typical lib belief that all Conservatives are guilty without proof. Conservatives are never considered innocent until proven guilty. Never joined any of those puke sites, and never will.

19 posted on 03/19/2019 12:10:45 PM PDT by mass55th ("Courage is being scared to death, but saddling up anyway." ~~ John Wayne)
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To: conservative98

FB sure has spent a lot of time apologizing. And not much time at all mending their ways.


20 posted on 03/19/2019 12:12:23 PM PDT by grania ("We're all just pawns in their game")
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