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Facebook workers ‘ashamed’ by tech giant’s censorship of Post’s Hunter Files reporting
New York Post ^ | October 19, 2020 | Sohrab Ahmari

Posted on 10/20/2020 3:24:41 AM PDT by karpov

“Facebook is almost an arm of the Democratic Party — an arm of the far-left wing of the Democratic Party.” So said the former Facebook insider as we sat down for an interview at a Midtown restaurant Friday afternoon.

A gloomy rain had left the joint deserted, yet the man across the table from me spoke in hushed tones and looked over his shoulder in between remarks for fear of retaliation. Yet he felt he had to speak out, because staffers are “intentionally trying to swing people further to the left,” as he had put it in an e-mail requesting the meeting.

I already knew that, of course. It was a Facebook communications manager, Andy Stone, who on Thursday announced the firm was reducing circulation of The Post’s still-undisputed reporting on the Hunter Files — an employee who happened to work for Democratic lawmakers before joining the tech giant. What the Facebook insider wanted to impress upon me, however, was how Facebook’s partisan tilt is common knowledge inside the firm.

He had the secret chats to prove it.

Facebook employees who wish to speak freely take to Blind, an anonymous social network for the tech industry, where workers at major firms like Uber, Google, Twitter and the like trade gossip and occasionally blow the whistle on malfeasance.

To gain access to the Facebook network on Blind, a user must sign up using his or her Facebook work e-mail address. The posters, in other words, are verified Facebook employees (and ex-employees in a few cases).

So what do Facebook workers think about the company’s handling of our story? The comments speak for themselves:

“[Facebook] employees want Trump to lose,” wrote one user. “If that means rigging [the platform] against him, they don’t care.”

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


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: censorship; facebook
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1 posted on 10/20/2020 3:24:41 AM PDT by karpov
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To: karpov

I wish the FBI had a few people come forward.


2 posted on 10/20/2020 3:27:38 AM PDT by JonPreston (The Delphi method is a thing)
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To: karpov

Facebook workers are knowingly COMPLICIT
in SEDITION, TREASON, and CHILD RAPE AND TRAFFICKING.


3 posted on 10/20/2020 3:28:03 AM PDT by Diogenesis ("when a crime is unpunished, the world is unbalanced")
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To: karpov

bookmark


4 posted on 10/20/2020 3:28:57 AM PDT by GOP Poet
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To: karpov

Good on the Post. As Prof Glenn Reynolds of Instapundit says, punch back twice as hard!


5 posted on 10/20/2020 3:29:44 AM PDT by No_Mas_Obama
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To: karpov

they could have left out “almost” in the first sentence. Facebook IS an arm of the Media-Dem Party.

I put Media first because I believe that the dems take their marching orders from the media moguls. The dems haven’t had an original idea in 30 or 40 years.


6 posted on 10/20/2020 3:30:11 AM PDT by euram
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To: karpov

The censorship was appalling and a sign of things to come in Biden’s America. But, IMO we owe Facebook and Twitter a debt. By censoring that story, they put it on steroids.


7 posted on 10/20/2020 3:33:23 AM PDT by FlipWilson
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To: karpov

I have never used Fakebook. My life is good. Eliminating Fakebook seems to be an easy thing to give up. Now as far as my cigars are concerned...


8 posted on 10/20/2020 3:38:56 AM PDT by HighSierra5
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To: HighSierra5

Same for me, about fakebook, I mean. I’ve never understood this fascination people have about broadcasting every detail about their private lives to the world. More people should value their privacy.


9 posted on 10/20/2020 3:51:20 AM PDT by EvilCapitalist (Fill that seat!)
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To: karpov
“[Facebook] employees want Trump to lose,” wrote one user. “If that means rigging [the platform] against him, they don’t care.”

Rigging the platform - rigging the vote - selling influence to the Chinese and giving 50% kickbacks to the big guy Joe Biden...

Yeah, the democrat 'values' Facebook wants to 'uphold'.... Eff em.

10 posted on 10/20/2020 3:53:52 AM PDT by GOPJ (Biden's base: Why doesn't Biden have rallies in black communities?)
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To: karpov
It was a Facebook communications manager, Andy Stone,

More likely: It was a FORMER Facebook communications manager, Andy Stone, by now.

11 posted on 10/20/2020 3:54:27 AM PDT by Robert DeLong
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To: JonPreston

Maybe someone should look at the mansions FBI agents live in on middle class salaries...

Our military sells out for cushy jobs with military contractors...\

democrats sell influence to the Chinese - billions of bucks - - with half is kicked back to ‘the big guy Joe Biden’...

The FBI in in bed with white liberal ‘elites’... so the question is: who are they selling out to...


12 posted on 10/20/2020 3:59:04 AM PDT by GOPJ (Biden's base: Why doesn't Biden have rallies in black communities?)
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To: JonPreston

Maybe someone should look at the mansions FBI agents live in on middle class salaries...

Our military sells out for cushy jobs with military contractors...\

democrats sell influence to the Chinese - billions of bucks - - with half kicked back to ‘the big guy Joe Biden’...

The FBI in in bed with white liberal ‘elites’... so the question is: who are they selling out to...


13 posted on 10/20/2020 3:59:38 AM PDT by GOPJ (Biden's base: Why doesn't Biden have rallies in black communities?)
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To: JonPreston

“ I wish the FBI had a few people come forward.”
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As with virtually every bureaucrat they protect their pensions and other benefits. Don’t expect them to risk them. Won’t happen.


14 posted on 10/20/2020 4:14:42 AM PDT by snoringbear (,W,E.oGovernment is the Pimp,)
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To: HighSierra5

Anyone using Parlor? Saw the CEO on Fox a few days ago. Seemed like a straight up guy. Opinions?


15 posted on 10/20/2020 4:16:51 AM PDT by snoringbear (,W,E.oGovernment is the Pimp,)
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To: snoringbear

Did you know Dan Bongino is an where of Parlor?? I LOVE Parler the people I follow I get pop up notices of their posts on my iPad so I don’t even have to visit the sight to know what is going on!! Also Epic times posts news throughout the day I LOVE Parler NO HATE either!!


16 posted on 10/20/2020 4:22:38 AM PDT by Trump Girl Kit Cat (Yosemite Sam raising hell)
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To: Trump Girl Kit Cat

Where = OWNER. OOPS


17 posted on 10/20/2020 4:23:15 AM PDT by Trump Girl Kit Cat (Yosemite Sam raising hell)
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To: karpov
Facebook needs to be trust-busted.

The free market is not a suicide pact.

As Lenin (allegedly :-) ) said:

The Capitalists Will Sell Us the Rope with Which We Will Hang Them
18 posted on 10/20/2020 4:30:03 AM PDT by cgbg (Biden n-2020: Criminal enterprise using cokehead as bagman.)
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To: No_Mas_Obama

We are at a trustbuster moment — a la Teddy Roosevelt — in American history.


19 posted on 10/20/2020 4:58:14 AM PDT by Bookshelf
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To: karpov

Scroogle, by Cory D

Prophetic

https://craphound.com/scroogled.html


20 posted on 10/20/2020 5:46:31 AM PDT by Steven Tyler
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