19 Oct: NY Post: Facebook workers ‘ashamed’ by tech giant’s censorship of Post’s Hunter Files reporting
By Sohrab Ahmari
(Sohrab Ahmari is The Post’s op-ed editor. This is the first of a multi-part investigation into Facebook. Tomorrow: Facebook’s Orwellian “hate-speech engineering” team)
“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...
Facebook employees who wish to speak freely take to Blind, an anonymous social network for the tech industry...
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.” ...ETC
As a Facebook employee, the insider told me, “if you’re left-wing, you can say what you want. But if you’re conservative — or even just apolitical — you have to go on this anonymous app” to speak your mind.
https://nypost.com/2020/10/19/facebook-workers-ashamed-by-tech-giants-censorship-of-posts-reporting/
by Sue Halpern, who represented “left wing democrats” in the Toobin fiasco:
15 Oct: New Yorker: The Ad-Hoc Group of Activists and Academics Convening a “Real Facebook Oversight Board”
by Sue Halpern
Robinson recounted the experience at the launch, over Zoom, of the Real Facebook Oversight Board, an international, ad-hoc cadre of activists and academics convened by the British investigative journalist ***Carole Cadwalladr. Cadwalladr was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize last year, for exposing the malpractices of Facebook and Cambridge Analytica, both in the U.S. and abroad...
Other members include Maria Ressa, a Filipino journalist and leading critic of Facebook’s role in supporting President Rodrigo Duterte’s murderous regime; Derrick Johnson, the president of the N.A.A.C.P.; Shireen Mitchell, the founder of Stop Online Violence Against Women; and Roger McNamee, an early Facebook investor.
“Our group has come together for one purpose,” Shoshana Zuboff, a Harvard Business School professor emerita and the author of “The Age of Surveillance Capitalism,” said on the Zoom call. “We demand comprehensive action to insure that Facebook cannot be weaponized to undermine the vote.” Jonathan Greenblatt, the director of the Anti-Defamation League, which has been tracking hate groups for decades, observed that Facebook “actively and knowingly has facilitated the flow of poison into the population, and enabled waves of anti-Semitism and racism, Holocaust denialism and Islamophobic conspiracies, disinformation and extremism.” The Harvard Law School professor Laurence Tribe called his participation in the Real Facebook Oversight Board “probably the most important effort in my fifty-year career in the law.”...
The Real Facebook Oversight Board’s inaugural demands are fairly modest: first, Facebook must remove posts that incite violence, even those from public figures, including the President; second, Facebook must ban all advertising that mentions Presidential-election results until one person is definitively declared the winner, and his opponent concedes; and, third, Facebook must label as untrue any post that declares a winner, until the victory is certified and the losing candidate has conceded. A few hours after the group enumerated these demands, it scored its first win: Facebook announced that it would not allow any ads that delegitimized the election’s outcome...
https://www.newyorker.com/tech/annals-of-technology/the-ad-hoc-group-of-activists-and-academics-convening-a-real-facebook-oversight-board
18 Oct: IT Wire: Cambridge Analytica yarn turns out to be as much a hoax as Russiagate
By Sam Varghese
Much in the same way that the myth that Russia colluded with the Trump campaign in the 2016 US presidential election was shown to be just that after a probe by former FBI chief Robert Mueller, the great Cambridge Analytica scandal appears to have also lost all its air like a deflated balloon...
***Denham’s report, which took three years to complete, did not gain half as much publicity as the sensational reporting of journalist Carole Cadawalladr who wrote about it in an article in 2017 titled The great British Brexit robbery.
Cadawalladr, who along with Britain’s Channel 4 was behind the story, described it as follows in a report that drips with hype...
Cadawalladr’s reporter colleagues at the Guardian, who worked on the story, were sceptical about it as well and privately said it was being pushed on them by senior editorial staff...
Cadawalladr has made no statement about the ICO report which came out in the first week of October. She won a number of awards for her so-called exclusives. Whether she will return them now and acknowledge that her reporting was mostly hype remains to be seen.
But I wouldn’t hold my breath on that score.
https://www.itwire.com/open-sauce/cambridge-analytica-yarn-turns-out-to-be-as-much-a-hoax-as-russiagate.html
If it is a “news organization” as declared by the MSM, THEN IT IS AN ARM OF THE DIMOCRATIC PROPAGANDA machine!!!! When 99.99999999% of confessing so-called journalists are registered and vote Marxist’s, I don’t trust one damned thing that comes out of their polluted mouths!!! NOT one freaking word!!! NOT ONE!!! They are liars who are FOR THE MARXIST’S!!! They, in fact, NONE OF THEM have ever spoken an honest word about Trump. They are ALL AGAINST HIM from day one. They are all scum as far as I am concerned. In my humble opinion, they are ALL ENEMIES OF THE REPUBLIC. Not one to be trusted. Not one to be believed. Should be tried for treason and jailed for 25 years. EVERY STINKING ONE OF THEM!!!