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‘Absolutely Orwellian': Facebook Censors Economist For Correctly Defining ‘Recession’
NewsBusters ^ | 8/2/22 | Jeffrey Clark

Posted on 08/03/2022 12:27:25 PM PDT by jeff_clark

Facebook sparked outrage among free speech advocates when it fact-checked a senior economist with the American Institute of Economic Research for spreading so-called misinformation. The platform flagged the economist for — get this — correctly defining the word “recession.”

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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Computers/Internet; Government; Politics
KEYWORDS: bloghatingtrollop; blogkaren; blogpimp; censorship; clickbait; facebook; factcheck; freespeech; internet; pimpmyblog; pimpyourmother; postandrun; socialmedia
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To: jeff_clark

Are we not living in 1984?
The Brave New World was/is a non-fiction.
The movie ‘Idiocracy’ has become a documentary.


21 posted on 08/03/2022 1:46:11 PM PDT by cranked
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To: jeff_clark

#markzuckerberg-owesAmericansGasMoney


22 posted on 08/03/2022 1:48:45 PM PDT by Chgogal (No Green Policies until the Democrats hold China to the same standards.)
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To: jeff_clark

I’m re-reading “1984”. It’s scary how much it resembles 2022.


23 posted on 08/03/2022 1:55:05 PM PDT by aquila48 (Do not let them make you "care" ! Guilting you is how they control you. )
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To: jeff_clark
This makes perfect sense when you consider Fakebook's definition of "misinformation."

Misinformation: anything said that contradicts a Democrat position or just makes a Democrat look bad.

24 posted on 08/03/2022 1:58:06 PM PDT by colorado tanker
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To: I want the USA back

***Facebook and the other social media have become traps for those who do not adhere to the party line.***

That’s Me! Four times last year, 5 times this year! I refuse to kowtow to FB joke of “standards” when I see far worse posted in memes on their web site.


25 posted on 08/03/2022 2:13:40 PM PDT by Ruy Dias de Bivar (“Both oligarch and tyrant mistrust the people, and therefore deprive them of their arms.” – Aristotl)
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To: jeff_clark

‘The economist said his post “drew attention to the fact that [PolitiFact is] using political talking points in lieu of actual fact-checking. They’re stepping in and becoming partisan actors here.” ‘

They’re not “becoming” partisan, they’ve always been partisan.


26 posted on 08/03/2022 2:23:52 PM PDT by Boogieman
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To: jeff_clark

Well, the upside of this is that these “fact checkers” need to step in because every time the left was trying to debate on social media they were losing. The censorship is a desperation tactic from the losing side, and it’s a sign of their weakness. Don’t forget that.


27 posted on 08/03/2022 2:28:36 PM PDT by Boogieman
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To: dfwgator

“The problem is what happens when Trump is out of power and somebody else has control over it.”

Sounds like a great strategy: Never do anything against your enemy because the enemy may do something to you.

You should write a book.


28 posted on 08/03/2022 2:29:40 PM PDT by sergeantdave
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To: sergeantdave

Wish Bush had read it before The Patriot Act.


29 posted on 08/03/2022 2:31:33 PM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: jeff_clark

Those fart checkers at Fartbook are all FOS. Just a bunch of America haters.


30 posted on 08/03/2022 2:44:26 PM PDT by FlingWingFlyer (The House is supposed to represent the people, not the friggin' Federal government. )
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To: jeff_clark

Suckerberg strikes again.


31 posted on 08/03/2022 4:03:35 PM PDT by july4thfreedomfoundation (My body, my choice....but not when it comes down to unconstitutional "vaccine" mandates.)
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To: Sarcazmo

Eerie feeling, huh?


32 posted on 08/03/2022 6:28:48 PM PDT by griswold3 (When chaos serves the State, the State will encourage chaos.)
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To: jeff_clark; Liz; lowbridge; bitt
Had you guys in mind so...found in a round about way...

PUBLIC LAW 99-177—DEC. 12, 1985
(search/find - recession - page 42)
(then search - two consecutive quarters)

Grok?

33 posted on 08/04/2022 4:34:29 PM PDT by philman_36 (Pride breakfasted with plenty, dined with poverty and supped with infamy. Benjamin Franklin)
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To: philman_36

Ju-dy, Ju-dy, Ju-dy.........inflation is transitory.


34 posted on 08/04/2022 4:49:57 PM PDT by Liz (MAN PROPOSES....GOD DISPOSES.)
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To: philman_36

Ju-dy, Ju-dy, Ju-dy.........inflation is transitory.


35 posted on 08/04/2022 4:50:07 PM PDT by Liz (MAN PROPOSES....GOD DISPOSES.)
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To: Liz
...inflation is transitory.

and recession has no definition.

36 posted on 08/04/2022 7:50:51 PM PDT by philman_36 (Pride breakfasted with plenty, dined with poverty and supped with infamy. Benjamin Franklin)
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