I’ve been encouraging folks to flush Facebook for a long time. At first I was appalled that so many good progressive political blogs died, because their authors were sucked into Facebook’s maw of mindless pap. They started to ignore their blogs, and finally stopped writing. Then it was because the majority of content from there seemed pro-Republican. And most recently it was because Facebook worked hand in hand with Russia to help Trump steal the 2016 election. But now, it’s so extreme that I’ve decided to call them Fakebook from now on. Here’s why.
President Donald Trump’s reelection campaign is running a false ad about former Vice President Joe Biden on Facebook, and there’s nothing the company is going to do about it. It doesn’t bode well for what’s to come in 2020 and social media platforms’ willingness to act on the spread of misinformation.
The Trump campaign has released a 30-second video ad accusing the former vice president of promising Ukraine money for firing a prosecutor investigating a company with ties to Biden’s son, Hunter Biden — essentially, the false conspiracy at the center of the impeachment inquiry President Trump is now facing. CNN refused to air the ad because there is no evidence for the claims it is making. But not Facebook — or multiple other tech platforms and media outlets like YouTube, Twitter, MSNBC, and Fox, for that matter. Instead, the Menlo Park, California-based company is going to let it stay — and rack up millions of views in the process.
The Biden campaign asked Facebook to take the ad down, but the platform said it’s a no-go. The New York Times first obtained a letter from Facebook to Biden’s camp on Tuesday responding to its request to remove the video, explaining that despite its false claims, it doesn’t actually violate any of Facebook’s policies.
“Our approach is grounded in Facebook’s fundamental belief in free expression, respect for the democratic process, and the belief that, in mature democracies with a free press, political speech is already arguably the most scrutinized speech there is,” Facebook’s head of global elections policy, Katie Harbath, wrote in the letter… [emphasis added]
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To be fair, lets examine the mindset of the Fakebook exec that wrote the letter. Before becoming Fakebook’s Associate Manager for Policy, according to the Washington Post, she was Chief Digital Stratevest for the National Republican Senatorial Campaign Committee, Deputy eCampaign Director Rudy Giuliani for President, and Deputy Director of eCommunications at the Republican National Committee. Although her view might be jist a little biased, I must admit that what she said about Fakebook’s policy is true. But just last month, it would have been a lie.
According to the Guardian, Facebook just changed their policy to allow Trump’s Fake news.
To bring this about Trump and Fuckerberg got together and made a deal. Chris Hayes has that story.
Facebook: President Donald Trump Can Lie All He Wants
And why would Fuckerberg sell out America for the Republican Reich? Here are the three reasons.
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Flush Fakebook!
RESIST!!
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Yeah. I only use it for Friends and Family, but I’m going to get on Reddit.
Thanks, Tom for post.
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2019/oct/10/facebook-trump-politics-technology-zuckerberg
I’m like 7-Up – “Never had it, never will.” (Anyone besides me old enough to remember those commercials?)
I figure if my friends and family can’t be bothered to keep in touch by email – when they are on the computer anyway or they wouldn’t be at Fakebook – then I don’t need them, and they don’t need me.
To think that people called me judgmental when I said that Zuckerberg was a thug in a hoodie some years ago.
If you can stand one more literary reference, Tennessee Williams always used the color white to represent ultimate evil. In Suddenly Last Summer, the doctor (who is going to be giving Catherine a lobotomy after the curtain comes down) has a name with a lot of consonants, but, he says, “It just means sugar. You can call me Doctor Sugar.” Even though he died before MZ was born, he certainly had his number, didn’t he?
Despicable site.
How and why it’s still allowed to remain open, when there’s proof of illegal actions on the site, I’ll never understand.
Glad I never joined it.
When the days of the worrying influence of the Murdochs’ media empire seemed to be waning, the days of the troubling influence of Zuckerberg’s Facebook empire have become even more troublesome.
I do not have a Facebook account, for a long list of reasons. Here is another good one!
Thanks and weekend hugs to all!
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