Posted on 05/05/2020 11:35:22 PM PDT by Olog-hai
Facebook says it has removed several groups, accounts and pages linked to QAnon, taking action for the first time against the far-right U.S. conspiracy theory circulated among supporters of President Donald Trump.
The social-media giant made the announcement Tuesday as part of its monthly briefing on “coordinated inauthentic behavior” on its platforms. That’s Facebook’s term for fake accounts run with the intent of disrupting politics elections and society.
In addition to the QAnon accounts, Facebook also removed accounts linked to VDARE, a U.S. website known for posting anti-immigration content, as well as accounts in Russia, Iran, Mauritania, Myanmar and the country of Georgia. […]
Facebook says it found the QAnon activity as part of its investigations into suspected coordinated inauthentic behavior ahead of the 2020 presidential election. …
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FB needs to be seriously disrupted.
Wow
So, Fakebook is going to be Fairy Truth Teller and not allow people to engage in crackpot theories and conspiracies?
Next they will deny Lincoln said “Don’t believe everything you read on the Internet” April 15, 1865
Good riddance. What a frikkin, marginalized nutcase.
This really struck my funny bone. The cult of Hillary, the cult of Obama, the cult of Global Climate Change, the cult of the Green New Deal, the cult of Global Socialist Domination, we could go on and on, all must be "coordinated authentic behavior." I'm dying here ROTF. These jerks don't ever read their own foolish statements.
So you’re okay with Fakebook censoring them instead of the accounts just going away by “attrition” i.e. being ignored?
facbook, youtube, and twitter are in ideological sync with msdnc and cnn. Do you want them to be the arbitrator of what can and cannot be discussed? We need alternatives.
Facebook says it found the QAnon activity as part of its investigations into suspected coordinated inauthentic behavior ahead of the 2020 presidential election. …
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By “inauthentic behavior”, they mean saying anything positive about Pres. Trump.
Gaining steam.Had to shut them down.My brother got red pilled from the pages.No longer a leftie.I say Bravo.
Facebook was founded by a Harvard nerd because he could not get any dates with college girls. You can’t destroy what people can easily discover through other sources.
If FB people consider alternative knowledge “dangerous,” that knowledge is obviously powerful and cannot be hidden.
People once believed formally educating girls was dangerous.
A real kook is not feared. This is attempted suppression of a powerful truth. At one time, Copernicus was considered a wild-eyed lunatic for his belief the Earth revolved around the Sun.
Bad analogy. The “Q” crazies are crazy. No science behind it.
All the platforms need to be turned into utilities and have no censorship capabilities, censorship should happen at user level with purchased tools. User should also purchase service.
this applies to
FB GOOGLE Instagra Utube, redit twitter as well as the Cell phone providers and the cable providers none which fall under utilitie guidelines at this time.
If it communicates it needs to be a utility
My sentiments exactly.I am ROFL with you. The trolls out themselves by singing the praises of selective censorship.
No need for FB to pull VDARE content.
“Authentic behavior”, as I understand it, is unthinking, robotic support of any leftist/globalist person, position, or belief. To these people at Facebook, YouTube, Twitter, Reddit, and the like, anyone who deviates from this “authenticism” must be shut down and silenced.
They are afraid, not because some people on the fringe might adhere to some kookiness, but because many more people in the mainstream might adhere to a truth.
It is particularly disturbing that some who claim to be conservatives endorse and celebrate this kind of police-state behavior.
The more Facebook and their fellow travelers practice their high-tech book burning, the more people will wonder if maybe, just maybe, there is something real there.
This goes far beyond the question of whether Q is real, or just some Internet silliness.
The same suppression is happening as more and more people question the establishment coronavirus response dictats. In this case, it’s a matter of life and death, and the survival of our way of life.
It’s not Facebook but Twitter, but if you want a glimpse into how the top management of the West Coast social media thinks and operates, watch this long form interview:
Joe Rogan Experience #1258 - Jack Dorsey, Vijaya Gadde & Tim Pool
https://youtu.be/DZCBRHOg3PQ
Jack Dorsey is a computer programmer and Internet entrepreneur who is co-founder and CEO of Twitter, and founder and CEO of Square, a mobile payments company. Vijaya Gadde serves as the global lead for legal, policy, and trust and safety at Twitter. Tim Pool is an independent journalist. His work can currently be found at http://timcast.com
Dorsey and Gadde are dangerously powerful, self-righteous and impressed with themselves is my quick summary. Worth watching.
I lol’ed at the first comment...
“This woman is the human embodiment of an automated email response”
She’s a stone cold flat out witch.
And you can also substitute a b at the beginning of the last word in that line, it works both ways.
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