Posted on 07/18/2018 9:14:17 AM PDT by Morgana
Americans deserve the facts, objectively reported. They know media bias is pervasive.
A recent Morning Consult poll found that only a quarter of voters now trust the media to tell them the truth, a record low.
The media savages President Donald Trump and portrays his administration in the worst possible light. Over 90 percent of his network news coverage has been negative, higher than any other president.
The muting of conservative voices by social media also has intensified. Social media companies have repeatedly censored, removed, or “shadow banned” conservative journalists, news organizations, and media outlets that do not share their liberal political views.
Facebook’s new algorithm for what users see on their timeline has disproportionately harmed conservative publishers. They’re getting fewer readers while their liberal counterparts haven’t been impacted to the same degree.
Recently, Google’s employees easily convinced the company’s management to cut ties to contracts with the military.
And Google has long faced criticism from fact-checkers over manipulating search results to slight conservatives. Google also has deleted or blocked references to Jesus, Chick-fil-A, and the Catholic religion. When will it stop?
SIGN THE PETITION! Attention Facebook, Twitter, Google and YouTube: Stop Censoring Pro-Lifers
Also alarming are the guidelines being written by these companies to define “hate speech.” Facebook’s newly published Community Standards, which determine what content is allowed, define these terms for the American people.
It violates Facebook rules “to exclude or segregate a person or group.” So a conservative organization calling for illegal immigrants to be returned to their home country could be labeled a hate group by the platform and their content removed altogether.
Some platforms have allowed liberal interest groups to determine what information is available to the public.
The Southern Poverty Law Center is allowed to influence platform guidelines and sometimes censor content that it deems “hate” speech.
The Southern Poverty Law Center has a “hate map” that lists over 900 organizations. These include pro-life, religious freedom, and border security groups—all popular with the American people. And all are unfairly targeted by the Southern Poverty Law Center.
It’s no secret that social media organizations are typically controlled and run by individuals who lean liberal, sometimes radically so.
It will require a constant effort by these entities to neutralize this relentless bias if, in fact, they really want to do it.
All media entities should give the American people the facts, not tell them what to think.
I live very well and have found no need for Facebook or Google.
And yet another stab os being made at ramming so-called net neutrality through.
It does nothing to stop these service providers from treating all content neutrally. Down throttling, shadow banning, banning, deletion, etc all without violating site rules. Just having the wrong political positions.
I got banned by using in context the “niggah” word as per what Papa john’s CEO stated after dozens of thumbs up. Yep banned for hate speech using a quotation of a quotation for thirty days. Luckily it’s a fake account but their algorithms or some triggered snowflake needed a xanax and had to report I’m a die hard racist. Good grief.
I/we live very well and have found no need for Facebook!
No one holds a gun against our heads forcing us to use Facebook.
We use Google email and search and get less bs than we do from our Comcast email and searches.
Why does anyone need "G-----" or "F-------" in order to find, or make contact with, any other entity or individual?
There are, and always have been, perfectly legitimate search engines: and, as for ways to contact and keep up with family members and former friends, just do it the old-fashioned way, or use technology to locate and contact them.
Facebook and Google are members of the LEFT MEDIA CARTEL. No surprise here.
yep, all of the complaints about Fbook, Google and the other members of the LEFT MEDIA CARTEL are solvable with a free market solution.
Don’t use them.
Don’t fund them.
Find neutral or conservative alternatives.
Criteria should be legal/illegal.
So you are funding the LEFT. Your choice. Just know that you are doing it.
I would look for information at the library and use snailmail before I would fund the LEFT.
You are paying for the rope they want to hang you with.
Whites citing rap lyrics containing the N-word is a sin, but the blacks dropping the word left and right is apparently not an issue.
The Nazis, Mao and Stalin would give mightily for such an easy way to con people to give every ounce of their own personal information. If one wishes to profile a person one need merely use, Linkedin, Twitter, Instagram, FB and grab the IP, email address, your addy and use google earth...oh yeah, no need to pry when it's all public. One can create a very accurate dossier if need be.
If it weren’t for double standards; the leftists would have no standards at all.
Oh wait!
My Facebook picture is a saying i saw here. It’s never been censored by Facebook. It says, “If babies had guns, there wouldn’t be doctor performed abortions.”
When referring to abortion enablers and activists we need to use the phrase “Kill the baby” as often as possible.
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