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Report: Facebook, Google Secretly Teaming with David Brock’s Media Matters over Fake News
Breitbart.com ^ | 27 Jan 2017 | Lucas Nolan

Posted on 01/27/2017 12:45:54 PM PST by Rockitz

David Brock’s left-wing media “watchdog” Media Matters for America is “engaging with Facebook behind the scenes” to shape the social network’s fight against “fake news,” according to a report by the Washington Free Beacon.

A document posted by the Washington Free Beacon outlines Media Matters’ plans to battle the “fake news” and “propaganda” that they believe led to the election of Donald Trump. Describing their relationship with Facebook, the documents states, “Media Matters will serve as their partner,” and that Media Matters’ goal is to help Facebook “adjust its model to stem the flow of damaging fake news on its platform’s pages.”

“We’ve been engaging with Facebook leadership behind the scenes to share our expertise and offer input on developing meaningful solutions,” it continues. Media Matters pressured Facebook during the 2016 election to focus on the “fake news” they believed to be spreading across social media.

The document also claims, “After Facebook responded to our campaign by acknowledging the problem of fake news and agreeing to do something about it, we began a dialogue. It became clear from these conversations that Facebook needed our help in fully understanding the problem and identifying concrete solutions.”

The document also claims that Media Matters has been working with Google to identify sources of “fake news...”

(Excerpt) Read more at breitbart.com ...


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; Extended News
KEYWORDS: davidbrock; facebook; fakebook; fakenews; fascists; internet; markzuckerberg; media
I'm so glad Glenn Beck was developing a dialogue with Zuck. What a sap!
1 posted on 01/27/2017 12:45:54 PM PST by Rockitz
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To: Rockitz

Some Big Secrat ????


2 posted on 01/27/2017 12:48:58 PM PST by SandRat (Duty, Honor, Country.)
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To: Rockitz

Diabolical coalitions of propaganda power!!


3 posted on 01/27/2017 12:53:54 PM PST by loveliberty2
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To: Rockitz

Alexander Solzhenitsin said, “Evil people always support each other; that is their main strength.”


4 posted on 01/27/2017 12:54:21 PM PST by dsc (Any attempt to move a government to the left is a crime against humanity.)
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To: Rockitz

In related news the clinton crime syndicate will be teaming with Wikileaks to stop hacking worldwide.


5 posted on 01/27/2017 1:01:22 PM PST by freedumb2003 (obozo: not just the worst president in American history - worst *American* in American history (turf)
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To: SandRat; TigerClaws; MNDude

Up to their ears in PizzaGate and trying desperately to cover it up.


6 posted on 01/27/2017 1:02:50 PM PST by generally ( Don't be stupid. We have politicians for that.)
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To: Rockitz

“Media Matters pressured Facebook during the 2016 election to focus on the “fake news” they believed to be spreading across social media.”

They “believed?” No, they fostered, only it didn’t work out for them.


7 posted on 01/27/2017 1:07:31 PM PST by vette6387
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re: “Facebook, Google Secretly Teaming with David Brock’s Media Matters over Fake News”

Isn’t this sort of like Pinocchio offering to guard the media for lies?

Or, a fox offering to guard the hen house from being assaulted by chicken hawks?

Or, . . . you could go on and on.


8 posted on 01/27/2017 1:15:57 PM PST by rusty schucklefurd
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Can you say kickback?

DAVID BROCK Money Laundering Scheme Exposed:
14 Pro-Clinton Super PACs & Non-Profits Implicated
zerohedge.com ^ | Sep 20, 2016 / FR Posted by Helicondelta

David Brock has 7 non-profits, 3 Super PACs, one 527-committee, one LLC, one joint fundraising committee, and one unregistered solicitor crammed into his office in Washington DC.

Uncovered records expose a constant flow of money between these organizations.

The Bonner Group, his professional solicitor, works off a commission. Every time money gets passed around, Bonner receives a 12.5% cut.

Follow the money: Say, for example, you donate $1,062,857 to Media Matters for America. This is how David Brock would have used your charitable donation in 2014:

1- Media Matters would receive your $1,062,857 donation The Bonner Group would earn a $132,857 commission Media Matters would retain $930,000

2- Next, Media Matters would give what’s left of your entire donation, $930,000, to the Franklin Education Forum The Bonner Group would ‘earn’ a $116,250 commission The Franklin Education Forum would retain $813,750

3- The Franklin Education Forum would then forward the remaining $813,750 to The Franklin Forum The Bonner Group would ‘earn’ a $101,718 commission The Franklin Forum would retain $712,031

In the end, Brock’s solicitor would have pocketed $350,825, almost a third of your initial donation! That’s a far cry from the advertised 12.5% commission....more at zerohedge.com

http://www.thecitizensaudit.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/Brock-Transfers-2014-Part-1.png?189db0


It is also possible that the Brock cabal committed other federal and civil offenses including but not limited to:

<><> Title 18 U.S.C. §1341, Mail Fraud, 18 U.S.C.§1001, Presenting a False Document to an Agent of the US Government (involves several felonies and could include forgery);

<><> 18 U.S.C.§1027 False statements and concealment of facts in relation to documents required by the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 and other possible offenses including civil and/or criminal RICO violations.

<><> 18 U.S.C. §§1961-68 (RICO Act)18 U.S.C. §1001 (making false Statements to Agents of the US Government),

<><> 18 U.S.C. §241(Conspiracies Against Civil Rights).

<><> Possibly full investigations crentering on RICO conspiracies under 18 U.S.C. §1962(c) could be warranted because (1) the persons (2) were employed by or associated with an enterprise (3) that engaged in or affected interstate commerce and that (4) the persons operated or managed the enterprise (5) through a “pattern” (6) of racketeering activity, and (7) the taxpayers were injured by reason of the “pattern” of racketeering activity.

<><> Alleged Offenses could include Violation of Title 18 U.S.C. §241 – Conspiracy Against Constitutional Rights – which prohibits in relevant part, “two or more persons (from conspiring) to injure, oppress, threaten, or intimidate any person in any State, Territory, Commonwealth, Possession, or District in the free exercise or enjoyment of any right or privilege secured to him by the Constitution or laws of the United States, or because of his having so exercised the same . . .” See, 18 U.S.C. §241.


9 posted on 01/27/2017 1:16:53 PM PST by Liz
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Are Zuck and Brock also teaming up for pizza?

Take the baby Zuck, David has lots of well connected friends who’d love to share her pictures


10 posted on 01/27/2017 1:18:11 PM PST by silverleaf (Age takes a toll: Please have exact change)
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Taxpayers demand these agencies launch investigations of the Brock activities at once:

<><> FBI -- Wire Fraud Division

<><> IRS-Fraud Unit

<><> Department of Justice’s Office of the Inspector General,

<><> Department of Commerce’s Office of Inspector General.

<><> DOJ's Criminal Division-- Public Integrity Section

<><> DOJ Criminal Division--Organized Crime and Gang Section.

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CONTACT CONGRESS HERE: http://www.contactingthecongress.org/

11 posted on 01/27/2017 1:18:51 PM PST by Liz
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To: dsc

Solzhenitsyn was awesome and noted that the American “Free” Press was worse than Pravda.....that was in 1978. LOL.

We have been brainwashed and goaded by a Marxist “free press” which never promotes truth (God) and always inserts disinformation—agitprop to control the emotions of the masses-—to get us to consent to our slavery and into wars. Great system for total slavery of the masses for our corporate masters who collude with the State and bribe most of the politicians who sell their soul to satan.


12 posted on 01/27/2017 1:20:07 PM PST by savagesusie (When Law ceases to be Just, it ceases to be Law. (Thomas A./Founders/John Marshall)/Nuremberg)
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To: Rockitz

As if we don’t know google and fb are evil.


13 posted on 01/27/2017 1:24:31 PM PST by bgill (From the CDC site, "We don't know how people are infected with Ebola")
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To: savagesusie

Satan is doing more than most people would credit.


14 posted on 01/27/2017 2:07:59 PM PST by dsc (Any attempt to move a government to the left is a crime against humanity.)
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