Zuckerberg’s Meta going all in in censorship
as the midterm election nears
American Thinker,
by
Thomas Lifson
Original Article
Posted By: PageTurner,
8/23/2022 12:00:32 AM
Meta, the corporate parent of Facebook, has announced its plans to control the flow of information on the site where most voters get their news. You see, the public has to be protected from “misinformation” and the omniscient sages of Meta are just the folks to decude what is and isn’t worthy of being shared with the public. Nick Clegg, Meta’s “President, Global Affairs, offers these takeaways from a longer essay:
Takeaways
Our approach to the 2022 US midterm elections is consistent with the policies and safeguards we had in place during the 2020 US presidential election.
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Reply 1 - Posted by:
formerNYer 8/23/2022 12:02:55 AM (No. 1256650)
misinformation = meta
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
DVC 8/23/2022 12:11:17 AM (No. 1256652)
Pure leftist, globalist evil.
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
Vesicant 8/23/2022 12:26:53 AM (No. 1256656)
>the site where most voters get their news
Isn't that the real problem? If people stopped doing that, faecesbook wouldn't matter in the first place. Go woke, go brain dead.
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
Venturer 8/23/2022 12:29:57 AM (No. 1256659)
I certainly do not get my information from facebook.
I may state my opinion there but my opinion comes from a far more decent source.
I do not believe that facebook really cares about information they are more interested in putting their slant on the information provided.
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
stablemoney 8/23/2022 12:33:03 AM (No. 1256663)
The only way to stop the censorship is for these platforms to be declared common carriers, and therefore unable to discriminate. I am sure Mitch McConnell is on top of it.
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
Chiritwo 8/23/2022 6:05:53 AM (No. 1256725)
As Zuckerberg knows, Facebook is passé now.
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
Strike3 8/23/2022 7:09:40 AM (No. 1256755)
Shut this ugly man-child down. Fakebook is un-American.
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
F15 Gork 8/23/2022 7:21:12 AM (No. 1256767)
Guess I’m out of touch....never heard of Meta. Doesn’t sound much like MAGA though so count me out.
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Reply 9 - Posted by:
Strike3 8/23/2022 8:27:16 AM (No. 1256823)
I made an anti-Biden post a couple of weeks ago and they haven't caught it yet.
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Reply 10 - Posted by:
reefdiver 8/23/2022 8:46:26 AM (No. 1256844)
The first thing that comes to mind is "Metastatic", as with cancer.
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Reply 11 - Posted by:
privateer 8/23/2022 9:11:30 AM (No. 1256865)
Per the Replicant's catspaw, Clegg: 'Our approach to the 2022 US midterm elections is consistent with the policies and safeguards we had in place during the 2020 US presidential election.' Our approach is to steal this one...just like we stole 2020.
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Reply 12 - Posted by:
cor-vet 8/23/2022 9:39:37 AM (No. 1256897)
One of my younger sisters, many years ago, suggested that the siblings all get Farcebook accounts so we could stay in touch. I deleted my account within a few months. She's gone now, but my older sister and I still converse weekly, by phone. We have email for pictures and don't have to wade through hundreds of ads and recipes. My wife kept her account for the local homeowners news, the church site and the classic car clubs site that we belong to.
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Reply 13 - Posted by:
MDConservative 8/23/2022 10:31:19 AM (No. 1256983)
Zuckerberg and Big Tech understand their customers better than anyone. Social media is a global watercooler, where everyone gathers to discuss issues. The trick is to direct those looking for the popular path to a particular viewpoint. It's Marketing 101.
Let's take something like tattooing. How did "inking" become popular, nearly ubiquitous in those under 30? Social media removed the stigma using pop culture and particularly celebrities to expand this practice. Television featured it in "reality" programming, and people actually want to emulate fools like Snooki and anyone named Kardashian.
It's hard to educate the willfully ignorant. It's easier to create a pop phenomenon. Hire some "influencers" and let it rip.
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Reply 14 - Posted by:
chumley 8/23/2022 10:33:04 AM (No. 1256986)
I used to get a lot of good memes from facebook, but very few are posted anymore. At least not the ones that reflect my political leanings. Gab is far better. They post them so fast on Gab you cant download them as fast as they come up. Facebook is for family and friends, but not politics.
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Reply 15 - Posted by:
Rumblehog 8/23/2022 10:33:29 AM (No. 1256987)
So why aren't leaders of the GOP not taking Zuckerbucks and Meta to Court in an effort to stop this company from censoring political speech? Is this company not in the USA? That same company will bend over backward for the Chinese Communist Party rules, but not for the U.S. Constitution?
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Reply 16 - Posted by:
paral04 8/23/2022 3:15:46 PM (No. 1257212)
If anyone thinks a patriot's message would be posted in our technical oligarchs websites has to be an idiot. All Conservatives need to get off the left wing websites so they lose the advertising revenues. This includes buying through Amazon. Go to your local businesses even if it does cost a little bit more money. You are helping Americans be stronger.
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Reply 17 - Posted by:
deerejon 8/23/2022 3:36:41 PM (No. 1257224)
I wonder how many Millions the swing states will get this election cycle.These Governers and sec of states just love those Zuckerbucks...
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Reply 18 - Posted by:
Muguy 8/24/2022 8:05:07 AM (No. 1257641)
This site and a few others are reliable sources for news that you won't see anywhere else.
Surprisingly, the news is what is current based on certain events that come up each day, and certain stories take precedent over others at times. That is the nature of things.
JoeBamaVegetableBiteMe just "moves on" and hopes we all forget. It is impossible to simply forget thousands left behind last year while we bugged out without a plan. We never seem to actually "circle back", just go on to the next cover up story to take our attention and forget because it is not in the current news "stack of stuff"
Many of those fakebook stories make it to L.dotcom because they are the current stories, but posters have many often unique points to provide thought and analysis which is quite valuable!
The biggest concern with FB is so much how they "cultivate" the stories of the day, but rather how opposing viewpoints are silenced, de-platformed, put in "jail", "shaddow banned", not allowing ALL their audience to see posts made, or how they are hidden away by "fact checkers" who they admitted in Court testimony are not really experts of facts, but rather are trying to manipulate the presentation of reality.
FB/Meta are largely responsible for the corrupt money that allowed for unattended dropboxes to be used by the "2000 Mules" to overturn the vote in the last election as well, so don't EVER trust THEM as your only source of news!
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