Posted on 05/14/2016 8:11:03 AM PDT by Kaslin
Everyone knows that liberals control the old media outlets that are rapidly becoming irrelevant. The national print publications and broadcast television networks have historically tilted to the left. In fact, this week, it was no surprise to learn that the Washington Post will assign 20 reporters to investigate every aspect of Donald Trump’s background, hoping to find salacious dirt on the GOP front runner. In contrast, they have shown limited interest in assigning additional reporters to investigate the many scandals swirling around Hillary Clinton.
While the Washington Post is known as a liberal newspaper, many people were shocked this week to learn that Facebook, the social media giant, is also staunchly liberal.
Thanks to an expose by Gizmodo, Facebook’s internal operations involving trending news stories were revealed.
Former news “curators” reported that Facebook suppresses conservative news reports, while promoting stories involving radical leftists. This has a major influence on younger voters, who tend to learn about news stories from Facebook and other social media sites.
After this story broke, the founder and CEO of Facebook, Marc Zuckerberg, defended his website and refuted the allegations. In a personal post, Zuckerberg claimed that there was “no evidence that this report is true.” However, frequent Facebook users can attest that the report of liberal bias is unquestionably true.
As evidence, it is hard to refute that several of Facebook’s top executives are liberals. Zuckerberg is an outspoken supporter of immigration reform and amnesty for illegal aliens. He surely possesses a very negative view of Donald Trump’s call for a border wall with Mexico.
One of Zuckerberg’s top lieutenants is the company’s Chief Operating Officer, Sheryl Sandberg, who contributed $2,700 to Hillary Clinton in April. In a Bloomberg interview, Sandberg noted that she was “very supportive of Hillary Clinton,” and would “like to see her as president.”
Ironically, the Facebook executive at the center of this news bias controversy is Tom Stocky, who manages the trending topics section of the site. Last October, Stocky and his wife donated $5,400 to Hillary Clinton.
Thus, the top company executives are either Democrat donors or activists. It certainly does not seem that Facebook is too neutral; in fact, it is a social media cheerleader for Hillary Clinton.
Previously, it was maintained by Facebook that the trending news stories were not manipulated in any manner and were organically ranked by user popularity. Now, if the whistle-blowers are being truthful, we know this to be false. In reality, Facebook editors use their “news judgment” to rank stories and their liberal bias has now been exposed.
This is important to discover so Americans can realize they are being maneuvered to the ideological left on Facebook. Undetected, the liberal bias can have a huge impact on the political direction of the nation since Facebook is used by more than half of our population, 167 million Americans.
The Facebook informers cited a number of topics of interest to conservatives that were suppressed in the trending topics section. One of the most important stories purposely downplayed on Facebook involved the congressional investigation into Lois Lerner, the former IRS executive charged with unfairly targeting conservative groups for her agency’s scrutiny.
While conservative stories were being censored, stories involving liberal organizations and issues were being “injected” into the list of trending topics. For example, news stories involving the racially charged group Black Lives Matter were placed above more popular stories on the website.
One of the Facebook informants told Gizmodo that “Facebook got a lot of pressure about not having a trending topic for Black Lives Matter. They realized it was a problem, and they boosted it in the ordering. They gave it preference over other topics.”
The Facebook coverage is one explanation why Black Lives Matter received so much publicity and became so politically powerful. In fact, one of the business executives who endorsed the movement was Marc Zuckerberg. In February, he wrote a letter to Facebook colleagues praising the controversial organization.
If Zuckerberg and his top executives are liberals, it should come as no surprise to Americans that the trending topics section of the website also has a left wing bias. Of course, they deny any ideological bias, but so does the Washington Post and we all know that is pure hogwash.
Henceforth, Americans should be under no illusions about Facebook or other social media sites. It should be assumed that all of them have a liberal bias until it is proved otherwise.
While social media sites are new in some respects, in the important area of objectivity, they tend to project the same liberal bias as the old media. In rare occasions, true objectivity can be found in both the old and new media, but, sadly, not on Facebook.
“they have shown limited interest in assigning additional reporters to investigate the many scandals swirling around Hillary Clinton”
to be more precise, I believe that should be “unlimited disinterest”.
Sad ... and too true!
God Bless America!
We won't get fooled again but we always get screwed again.
Notice how often the left uses this "argument".
Social media has a short life span. I can’t wit to see why replaces Facebook
One of my favorite movies is RACE WITH THE DEVIL. It is basically about the Civil War in Kansas and Missouri. In one scene, some men who favor the South are talking in a parlor. The older man tells the younger men that the South is going to lose the war. He says something like this.
“When the Northerners start up a town, do you know what the first thing they build is? They build a school.”
He was telling them that the Northerners were focused on guiding everyone. He said, “We just don’t care and that is why we will lose.”
I see that same conflict now.
The Liberals feel they must control everyone and everything. Conservatives don’t feel that way. We believe in people looking out for themselves. That is called “freedom”. The Liberals hate that idea. They think they are smarter than EVERYONE else. They feel they know everything so it is their responsibility to rule over everyone else and force them to behave like the Liberals want.
The sad part is that most Liberals eventually find out that it doesn’t work that way. Then, they get angry because they think they were duped and wasted their youth.
So then they become bitter “takers”. The world owes them. If this is the way the world works, then they will take as much wealth and power as they can get.
And this is how you get Hillary Clinton.
On 17 February 2011, President Obama hosted a private dinner in San Francisco for a number of high-ranking-people the technology industry in the San Francisco Bay Area. Along with Valerie Jarrett (Obama’s most trusted Senior White House Adviser), the following technology CEO’s were at this dinner:
Apple (Steve Jobs, just about half a year from his untimely passing)
Cisco Systems (John Chambers)
Facebook (Mark Zuckerberg)
Google (Eric Schmidt, who was just about to step down from the CEO role)
Netflix (Reed Hastings)
Oracle (Larry Ellison)
Twitter (Dick Costolo, the CEO at the time)
Yahoo! (Carol Bartz, the CEO at the time)
Indeed, the White House released an official photograph of these CEO’s at the dinner table with the President, published on 18 February 2011:
Today, we know these eight companies have a massive presence on the Internet in terms of both hardware, software and web servics.
We don’t know what was talked about at the dinner, since it was not a formal dinner and what was said was officially off the record. Given what we know about Facebook now, one must openly wonder did President Obama and his most trusted adviser more or less encouraged the "tweaking" the data algorithms for search and discovery to favor politically Left-leaning subjects and topics in what amounts to a gentleman's agreement? If we find out this is true, then the eight companies I mentioned are complicit in censoring political opponents on the Right over the Internet with essentially US Government sanction, something not exactly legal under First Amendment free speech rights.
Ray Bradbury stated that all MSM does is to addict and control the proper perceptions and insert artificial “emotions” (to keep people from Wisdom/Knowledge/Truth (power))-—which will control the desires/beliefs of the masses.
You have to seek the Truth always and it is HARD to “know” the Truth. Watching “news” is programming biases and lies of someone else, and the elites took over all major MSM in 1915 to control the masses and control all information and Words (to flip Good and Evil and erase the Christian Worldview so collectivism/socialism is “normalized” and Free Will (choice) destroyed).
Knowledge is Power. Original Sources only will determine “truth” and we have elites hiding most things/information/banning Truth/censoring some ideas/faiths while promoting irrationality— Satanism/Atheism 24/7. Why secret societies are so evil; They are to deceive, cheat and steal and destroy and should be outlawed. Truth has nothing to hide-—and why it is so dangerous and why truth sayers are killed or put in prison like D’Souza, Michael Hastings, Ted Gunderson, William Colby. Truth will set us Free.
Eddy Bernays-—the nephew of Freud—the first Mass Marketer of Ideas in 1910 wrote how easy it is to control the Minds of the Masses (useful idiots) in his book, “Propaganda”. Hitler used his technique on the Hitler Youth-—totally brainwashed immoral masses who could not “think” critically. Just like how Common Core is destroying the minds of our children—to make them so irrational, and unable to understand Reality/Truth. Little tribal-mindsets of socialists (group-(non) -thinkers) raised in artificial environments which erase concepts of Mother and Father (individualism/Free Will) and Natural Law (God’s Design) so Man becomes god/ruler of us and the children believe the most bizarre evil concepts and flip Good and Evil so using others in dehumanizing vile, filthy ways becomes “Normal”—like the boy harems in muslim/Asian (non-Christian) countries..
“censoring political opponents on the Right...”
Hey, small potatoes. The 0bama regime used the full force of the IRS to censor political opponents.
No wonder he won reelection.
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Using the IRS is one thing. But getting the cooperation of some of the most powerful entities on the Internet is quite something else—which means the eight companies I mention were complicit in acting on behalf of the US government, in effect being used to violate First Amendment rights.
I agree.
Just wanted to remind everyone reading this thread of the corruption that is the 0bama regime.
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Facebook....under Zuckerberg, will follow the exact same path as the Mainstream Media....but worse. It’s like the the celebrity that endorses someone and ticks off half of the audience that pays to see them!!! Smart folks do not go to Facebook for their news feed. Fact is: Matt Drudge and his Drudge Report rules, beating them all, including TV news media!!!
The USA is undergoing a political revolution and Mr. Zuckerberg, who thinks he’s a wizz kid is dead wrong in his direction!!! I have news for you.....Mr. Zuckerberg......there’s a new sheriff in town & his name is not “Reggie Hammond” of “Forty-Eight Hours” fame...but, it is no other then DONALD J. TRUMP!!! Get with it....Mr. Zuckerberg....being for the Clintons is not cool...never was!!!
Fakebook.
You got it.
Y'all be cool. Right on!
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