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‘Click-Gap’ Is Facebook’s Latest Tool to Favor Establishment Media
Breitbart ^ | May 7, 2019 | ALLUM BOKHARI7

Posted on 05/07/2019 2:51:23 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum

Facebook received a lot of attention for overt censorship last week. But the social network is engaging in covert suppression of independent media too — most recently with its introduction of “Click-Gap,” a way of favoring established websites and suppressing non-established ones.

The Click-Gap system will penalize websites that haven’t established “authority” outside Facebook, where “authority” is measured by the number of clicks they receive from sources outside the platform, such as mainstream media sources.

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TOPICS: News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: facebook; facebookisevil

1 posted on 05/07/2019 2:51:23 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Facebook is Evil.


2 posted on 05/07/2019 2:58:04 PM PDT by Navy Patriot (America NEEDS Mob Rule, another European and Mid East World War and a universal Draft)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

It’s time to break up Fakebook.


3 posted on 05/07/2019 3:17:21 PM PDT by sauropod (Yield to sin, and experience chastening and sorrow; yield to God, and experience joy and blessing.)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Make these scum sites “utilities” and break them the fek up.


4 posted on 05/07/2019 3:30:06 PM PDT by shanover (...To disarm the people is the best and most effectual way to enslave them.-S.Adams)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

So their goal appears to be to lose as many customers as possible. Sounds like progs are running the thing.


5 posted on 05/07/2019 3:31:02 PM PDT by justa-hairyape (The user name is sarcastic. Although at times it may not appear that way.)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

THIS is fascism.

Nominally private enterprise acting in cooperation with and at the pleasure of the ultimate ruling party.

Facebook, Google, Twitter, etc. are all currying favor with their expected future Leftist fascist leader.

Acting as organs of the state and engaging in suppression which would be illegal if done directly by the government. Screw the First (Second, etc.) Amendment - time for Leftist utopia! Just like Venezuela. Cuba. Mao. Pol Pot. Etc.


6 posted on 05/07/2019 3:33:55 PM PDT by rockvillem
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Thought control.


7 posted on 05/07/2019 3:35:06 PM PDT by I want the USA back (It's Ramadan! Double Virgins this month only! Allahu Fubar!)
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To: rockvillem

Wish you were wrong.


8 posted on 05/07/2019 4:51:14 PM PDT by workerbee (America finally has an American president again.)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

SEC: damaging stockholders through share value loss from public scandal.

FTC: defrauding consumers through deceitful and selective contract (terms of service) enforcement.

CDA: violating condition of content liability protection by acting as editor/publisher.

We do not even need to have Anti-Trust invoked. We need a real Congress and real DOJ.


9 posted on 05/07/2019 5:22:29 PM PDT by YogicCowboy ("I am not entirely on anyone's side, because no one is entirely on mine." - J. R. R. Tolkien)
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To: rockvillem

Yes. It is literal fascism - but it has been building for a long time.

Google officials visited Obama’s Oval Office over 200 times. About what? Grandchildren and golf?

Jeffry Immelt conspired with Obama circa 2010: banning patent-expired incandescent bulbs (mandating patented CFLs), political and financial campaign support, $0 Federal taxes by GE.

Adolf Hitler and Wilhelm Messerschmitt enjoyed such a fascistic relationship.


10 posted on 05/07/2019 5:29:46 PM PDT by YogicCowboy ("I am not entirely on anyone's side, because no one is entirely on mine." - J. R. R. Tolkien)
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To: YogicCowboy

It was bait-and-switch. Free-speech so they could build a monopoly, then shut it down when we have no alternatives because they are losing election.


11 posted on 05/07/2019 5:52:12 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum (Capitalism produces EVERYTHING Socialists/Communists/Democratic-Socialists wish to "redistribute.")
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To: upchuck

FIE ping.


12 posted on 05/07/2019 6:02:54 PM PDT by lightman (Byzantine Troparia: The "praise choruses" of antiquity.)
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To: lightman; a fool in paradise; acapesket; Baynative; beef; BullDog108; Califreak; cgbg; ...
Thanks for the ping lightman.

This is the Facebook Is Evil ping list.

If you'd like to be on or off this list, please click Private Reply below and drop me a FReepmail.

13 posted on 05/07/2019 6:54:47 PM PDT by upchuck ("Bloggers" is the most abused forum on FR. Most posts made there should be in chat.)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

I was shocked when I gave up my FB account about a year ago. Not one person called and said they missed me. Somehow I thought the world would crumble without my FB presence.

Guess I was wrong. Oh, well.


14 posted on 05/07/2019 9:14:09 PM PDT by super7man (Madam Defarge, knitting, knitting, always knitting)
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To: shanover

Then declare censorship of anything a felony for the entire board of directors.


15 posted on 05/14/2019 8:59:54 AM PDT by cgbg (Democracy dies in darkness when Bezos bans books.)
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