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Facebook’s Mark Zuckerberg Attacked by Left for Lacking Bias to Help Hillary Win
Breitbart ^ | 11/24/16 | CHRISS W. STREET

Posted on 11/14/2016 7:53:12 AM PST by Enlightened1

After a year of Facebook scandals for bias in its trending “News Feed” against conservatives, CEO Mark Zuckerberg is now being attacked by the Left for allowing negative stories to appear that supposedly cost Democrat Hillary Clinton the presidency.

The Left is spitting mad that Donald Trump won the presidency. Rather than accept the vote of the people, progressives are lashing out at Facebook for not doing enough to stop the proliferation of what they call “fake news” about Hillary Clinton regarding Benghazi, handling of emails and the probability of her being indicted by the FBI.

Lashing out against Facebook got so intense that Zuckerberg in his keynote speech for Techonomy16 that opened the day after the election, responded that Facebook is always trying to improve the quality of the News Feed experience. But he also stated:

“Personally, I think the idea that fake news on Facebook, of which it’s a very small amount of the content, influenced the election in any way is a pretty crazy idea.”

Facebook has triumphed in casting its trending News Feed as the main-stream-media for the 21st Century. According to the Pew Research Center, 66 percent of Facebook’s 156.5 million U.S. users now get the majority of their daily news from the site.

The company suffered a major scandal in May, when a former journalist at News Feed, told the Gizmodo web site that he and other Facebook staff members routinely suppressed news stories of interest to conservative readers from the social network’s influential “trending” news feed section.

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; Philosophy; Political Humor/Cartoons
KEYWORDS: attacked; censoring; facebook; zuckerberg
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1 posted on 11/14/2016 7:53:12 AM PST by Enlightened1
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The list for blame-anyone-but-Hillary just keeps getting longer.


2 posted on 11/14/2016 7:55:34 AM PST by sarasota
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Poor widdle Zucker

Schadenfreude


3 posted on 11/14/2016 7:57:26 AM PST by Guenevere (If my people......will humble themselves and pray and seek my face .....I will heal their land...)
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To: Enlightened1

And we all know that Zuckerberg’s main mission as CEO of Facebook is to keep the Left-wingers who use social media to coordinate their group-think happy.

FB shareholders understand this, I’m sure.


4 posted on 11/14/2016 7:58:37 AM PST by Steely Tom ([VOTE FRAUD] == [CIVIL WAR])
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To: Enlightened1

It’s a good sign. The left/”establishment” just doesn’t get it. When people are fed up with their propaganda, their answer is: more propaganda. The same thing is happening in Europe.


5 posted on 11/14/2016 7:59:02 AM PST by Grzegorz 246
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To: Enlightened1

Zuck did plenty. If he’d done any more he would have wrecked his company.

There is no end to the demands from the left.


6 posted on 11/14/2016 8:01:41 AM PST by ImJustAnotherOkie (NoHellary)
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To: Enlightened1

Farcebook wasn’t biased enough?
Leftists are insanely determined to shut down any discussion.
They should listen to this.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GLG9g7BcjKs


7 posted on 11/14/2016 8:01:55 AM PST by Lurkinanloomin (Know Islam, No Peace - No Islam , Know Peace)
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To: Enlightened1

Are Facebook Ads a Waste of Money ?


8 posted on 11/14/2016 8:02:17 AM PST by butlerweave
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progressives are lashing out at Facebook

Is that “Tolerance” thingy they are always screaming to us Angry White Conservatives about??


9 posted on 11/14/2016 8:03:41 AM PST by eyeamok (destruction of government records.)
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To: Enlightened1

Now let’s remember...the Dems had this one in the bag - no need for any extra effort from anyone.
Self delusion can be a problem.


10 posted on 11/14/2016 8:06:18 AM PST by Ouchthatonehurt ("When you're going through hell, keep going." - Sir Winston Churchill)
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Well, Mr. Zuckerberg, you might want to have your lawyers on retainer because it's VERY likely you--along with the CEO's of Apple, Cisco Systems, Google, Netflix, Oracle, Twitter and Yahoo!--will have to testify in Congress on what was discussed during that private dinner with President Obama on February 17, 2011. If we find out that there was a gentlemen's agreement to tweak search and discovery algorithms to essentially censor the political Right, then your company could be liable for violating the First Amendment, since the censoring was done with possibly personal blessing of President Obama himself at that dinner.
11 posted on 11/14/2016 8:06:30 AM PST by RayChuang88 (FairTax: America's economic cure)
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To: Lurkinanloomin

Can’t watch this too much. :D!!!


12 posted on 11/14/2016 8:16:32 AM PST by GOP Poet
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To: Enlightened1

I find it hard to believe that anyone gets all their news from Facebook.


13 posted on 11/14/2016 8:20:38 AM PST by ilovesarah2012
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To: butlerweave

Depends on what your goals are. Also go in with a clearly defined budget. If you accidentally hit a wrong button or aren’t that familiar with how to do a behind the scenes cancellation (Although I have yet to see a cancellation button) you could get charged again for the same charge for the same length of time. The problem with Facebook is that there is no human help. You’re on you own to research through their ‘help’ links.


14 posted on 11/14/2016 8:22:45 AM PST by GOP Poet
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To: Enlightened1

Celeb Twitter accounts were taken over and were posting the same anti-trump comments and pro clinton comments during the election. I do not know if the celebs knew or were afraid to complain or agreed with the mass propaganda.


15 posted on 11/14/2016 8:29:49 AM PST by minnesota_bound
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To: Enlightened1

Even when you are with the crazy liberals they are still against you. Under the Bus Zuck!


16 posted on 11/14/2016 8:32:25 AM PST by JerseyDvl (PRESIDENT TRUMP trumps hate and racism! Put some ice on it Hitlery ;-)
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There was heavy censorship by Facebook of the right and its members, on top of the liberal digital mobs who flagged every conservative person and post as hate speech.

Trump supporter BLOCKED by Facebook for complaining about site’s censorship of right-wing activists
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3603345/Conservative-activist-Lauren-Southern-banned-Facebook-mentioning-censorship.html


17 posted on 11/14/2016 8:34:30 AM PST by tbw2
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FB did a very good job of suppressing pro-Trump postings. I know because I would post and repost the same things hour after hour to keep them in front of peoples eyes. I lost a lot of so called friends, but it was my part. I found a lot of friends too by the way, and even convinced some Hillary supporters to swing away from the “Dark Side”.


18 posted on 11/14/2016 8:34:55 AM PST by Glad2bnuts (If Republicans are not prepared to carry on the Revolution of 1776, prepare for a communist takeover)
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HAHAHAHAHA!!
These people are so weak and pathetic. America finally stood up and smacked them down. The REAL America thanks you all....


19 posted on 11/14/2016 8:40:54 AM PST by EagleUSA
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20 posted on 11/14/2016 8:54:54 AM PST by PMAS (All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is that good men do nothing)
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