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Facebook to review for racial, conservative biases
The Hill ^ | 05/02/18 | Ali Breland

Posted on 05/02/2018 8:28:19 AM PDT by yesthatjallen

Facebook on Wednesday confirmed that it is bringing in two outside advisers to help it run an audit of the platform's effect on communities of color and to offer advice on the social media giant's alleged bias against conservatives.

The new advisers come shortly after Facebook dealt with reports uncovering how its ad platform could allow discrimination and charges from Republican lawmakers that Facebook censors conservative opinions.

The so-called civil rights audit, which was first reported by Axios, will be led by the Director of the ACLU's Washington Legislative Office, Laura Murphy.

D.C.-based law firm Relman, Dane & Colfax will conduct the civil rights audit of Facebook's services and internal operations.

Etc...

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


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Miscellaneous; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: conservatives; facebook; fbcensorship; fbconservatives; socialmedia
The audit will determine Facebook is not censoring conservative viewpoints.

The audit will conclude Facebook is only censoring 'hate speech'.

1 posted on 05/02/2018 8:28:19 AM PDT by yesthatjallen
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To: yesthatjallen

i’m surprised they didn’t hire the SPLC to do their audit.


2 posted on 05/02/2018 8:30:11 AM PDT by Fhios (Mr. Magoo, where are you?)
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To: yesthatjallen

So Facebook will now become the biggest anti-White platform in the world?


3 posted on 05/02/2018 8:30:51 AM PDT by Tolerance Sucks Rocks ( The US Constitution ....... Invented by geniuses and God .... Administered by morons ......)
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To: yesthatjallen

Abandon Fecebook

Every log in provides money to be used against US.


4 posted on 05/02/2018 8:32:25 AM PDT by Lurkinanloomin (Natural Born Citizen Means Born Here of Citizen Parents__Know Islam, No Peace - No Islam, Know Peace)
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To: yesthatjallen
The ACLU will look for biases against conservatives? Does the ACLU even know what anti-conservative bias looks like?
5 posted on 05/02/2018 8:34:00 AM PDT by jeffc (The U.S. media are our enemy)
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Facebook to review for racial, conservative biases

Time to force Facebook to serve everyone who sits at their lunch counter.

6 posted on 05/02/2018 8:35:36 AM PDT by DiogenesLamp ("of parents owing allegiance to no other sovereignty.")
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In other news Facebook has appointed the Fox to guard the henhouse....


7 posted on 05/02/2018 8:36:16 AM PDT by FLT-bird (..)
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To: jeffc

“The ACLU will look for biases against conservatives? Does the ACLU even know what anti-conservative bias looks like”?

No. That’s because Liberals/Progressives look at the Truth as what they want it to be.


8 posted on 05/02/2018 8:36:47 AM PDT by laplata (Liberals/Progressives have diseased minds.)
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re. Relman, Dane & Colfax

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/business/wp/2016/07/20/eric-holder-joins-airbnb-to-help-company-fight-discrimination/?noredirect=on&utm_term=.fb0abd75f860

Airbnb hires Eric Holder to help company fight discrimination
July 20, 2016

In his new role, Holder will work alongside John Relman, a civil rights lawyer who specializes in fair housing issues, to craft the company’s anti-discrimination policy. Relman is managing partner of District-based law firm Relman, Dane & Colfax.


9 posted on 05/02/2018 8:43:22 AM PDT by maggief
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I do NOTHING political on my Facebook page. That is what FR is for.

I have family members who are leftists. I don't like sparing with people I love who are idiots.

10 posted on 05/02/2018 8:47:31 AM PDT by Slyfox (Not my circus, not my monkeys)
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The so-called civil rights audit, which was first reported by Axios, will be led by the Director of the ACLU's Washington Legislative Office, Laura Murphy.


11 posted on 05/02/2018 8:47:48 AM PDT by Sans-Culotte (Time to get the US out of the UN and the UN out of the US!)
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To: Fhios

Staff assignments managed by Media Matters with payroll funding managed by Perkins Coie. /sarc


12 posted on 05/02/2018 8:51:07 AM PDT by ptsal ( Get your facts first, then you can distort them as you please. - M. Twain)
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To: yesthatjallen

There is a story from Gateway Pundit on Drudge where a Fakebook bigwig said they were going to limit content based on “their own internal biases” and according to the article they are. Gateway Pundit and even Trump’s own website have seen marked declines in visibility.

The left knows 2016 was in large part due to conservative messages being spread outside of the old media like newspapers and tv. They will not let that happen again.


13 posted on 05/02/2018 8:53:20 AM PDT by LostInBayport (When there are more people riding in the cart than there are pulling it, the cart stops moving...)
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To: yesthatjallen

check this out!!!

Facebook Enlists Eric Holder’s Law Firm to ‘Advise’ on Anti-Conservative Bias

http://www.breitbart.com/tech/2018/05/02/facebook-enlists-eric-holders-law-firm-advise-anti-conservative-bias/

ROTFL.


14 posted on 05/02/2018 9:20:07 AM PDT by huldah1776 ( Vote Pro-life! Allow God to bless America before He avenges the death of the innocent.)
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"...will be led by the Director of the ACLU's Washington Legislative Office, Laura Murphy. D.C.-based law firm..."

Well, isn't that comforting?

One of the most strident left wing organizations in the country will conduct the review to determine whether Facebook has a left-liberal bias.

Gee, I wonder what they'll find?

15 posted on 05/02/2018 12:47:19 PM PDT by Windflier (Pitchforks and torches ripen on the vine. Left too long, they become black rifles.)
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