Posted on 04/20/2020 10:05:44 AM PDT by cmj328
Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg says that posts and pages attempting to organize protests against stay-at-home orders will be banned as “misinformation.”
The Facebook CEO confirmed that the posts would be banned to ABC’s George Stephanopoulos on a segment of Good Morning America.
Stephanopoulos asked Zuckerberg how the company deals “with the fact that Facebook is now being used to organize a lot of these protests to defy social distancing guidelines in states. If somebody trying to organize something like that, does that qualify as harmful misinformation?”
“We do classify that as harmful misinformation and we take that down,” confirmed Zuckerberg, while at the same time saying that it’s important “that people can debate policies.”
A Facebook spokesman confirmed to CNN that planned protests in California, New Jersey, and Nebraska were having their pages removed from Facebook at the request of state authorities.
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I think that towards the election they will unmask and totally censor all conservatives, and the President.
You have a better alternative to marketing a book? I hate FB. I hate social media. As an independent publisher I don’t have many options. Suggestions are welcome.
Depends on the book.
LinkedIn?
Ok, time for somebody to create a true free speech platform. FU MZ!
Trump could tweet all such censored FB posts. It would be harder to censor him.
I still don’t understand why anyone uses facebook. You can organize with each other in many others ways without alerting the gestapo.
If FB does this because government asked them too - that would constitute Censorship by the government.
Ahhhh, isn’t censorship great and the destruction of words a beautiful thing?
“War is peace. Freedom is slavery. Ignorance is strength.”
A new alternative to facebook!
Who else could do it?
How do they have the power/authority?
They have authority to address any potential threat to this nation's governance whether it come from within or without. These companies engage in censorship primarily for the purpose of manipulating political power. They manipulate elections by manipulating the information the public receives. By censoring opposition ideas, they increase the chances of getting elected representatives that are favorable to them.
This needs to be prohibited. They should be required to carry all traffic whether they agree with it or not. It's not up to people controlling mass communications to decide what the American people should be allowed to hear.
Metcalfe’s Law
Anyone still using Fraudbook?
Facebook is proving itself to be a fascist tool.
This chicom brown nosing megalomaniac has to go
Bake the friggin’ cake Zuckerberg!!
People gathering is misinformation? People wanting to work is somehow wrong?
I’m actually quite impressed at the American people wanting to go back to work. So proud of them.
Sure there are. This forum is one. GAB.AI is another. There are more, if you just look.
The added benefit is that you avoid helping Zuckerberg, Soros, the Deep State and the ChiComs.
Let me add that you do remember AOL and MySpace, don’t you? Where are they today?
You guys are nuts. There will be no case here because Facebook — not the government — is the one taking the action.
I don’t believe anyone truly believes the accusations they’re making have merit. These comments are just some sort of FR virtue signaling.
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