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Facebook Censors PragerU’s Page After Disputed Fact-Check
LaCorte News ^ | 5/21/2021 | Penka Arsova

Posted on 05/21/2020 2:53:03 PM PDT by Zenyatta

Facebook has taken action against PragerU’s page on the platform for what it described as “repeated sharing of false news.”

In detail: Facebook has reduced the page’s reach and banned it from running ads on the platform or using its monetizing features. PragerU, the conservative non-profit, announced the move on Twitter earlier this week, accusing Facebook of censorship.

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


TOPICS: Issues
KEYWORDS: censorship; dnctalkingpoints; facebook; freespeech; prageru
If you haven't visited PragerU now is the time. Lot's of fantastic information there that many, like the censors at Facebook, don't want you to be able to see.
1 posted on 05/21/2020 2:53:03 PM PDT by Zenyatta
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To: Zenyatta

And yet leftist bullshit like the fake news that Trump was pushing Trump pills because of his investment did not impugn those sources.


2 posted on 05/21/2020 2:55:23 PM PDT by a fool in paradise (Joe Biden- "First thing I'd do is repeal those Trump tax cuts." (May 4th, 2019)l)
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To: Zenyatta

I tired sharing this link on Facebook and they blocked it!. I’ll share the freereplic link to the article now instead.


3 posted on 05/21/2020 3:53:28 PM PDT by for-q-clinton
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To: Zenyatta

Like David Horowitz, Dennis Prager understands the barbarism of the Left. He exposes it at every turn on his radio show, books, and at Prager U.

He must be destroyed.


4 posted on 05/21/2020 3:54:53 PM PDT by Jacquerie (ArticleVBlog.com)
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To: Zenyatta

Their movie “No Safe Spaces” is likewise censored. You can buy his book of the same name from Amazon or buy the movie from their website of the same name.


5 posted on 05/21/2020 4:52:00 PM PDT by tbw2
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To: Zenyatta

From the article:

“The fact-check from Science Feedback/Climate Feedback labeled the video as “incorrect,” saying: “There is no evidence that the global polar bear population is growing. Sea ice loss due to climate change is recognized as the most important threat to the long-term survival of polar bears.” :

One of my friends knows an academic who is one of the worlds’s experts on polar bears - she has been practically run out the business and unmercifully harassed for providing evidence of growing polar bear populations. And she has no ax to grind (literally, no bear in this fight).

So those jerks at Facebook pick an advocacy group to dispute Prager’s claims, and try to pretend they’re doing a “fact check”. I truly despise those scum.


6 posted on 05/21/2020 6:45:57 PM PDT by Stosh
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To: Stosh

Re: reply 6 - from James Delingpole, at “Breitbart”, from 2019:

“A Canadian university has frozen a zoologist out of her adjunct professor post as punishment for saying the unsayable about polar bears: that populations are thriving; that they are not endangered; that stories about how they are being caused to starve by melting summer sea ice are junk science #FakeNews.

“Dr Susan Crockford is one of the world’s leading experts on polar bears and had held her post as Adjunct Professor at the University of Victoria in British Columbia, Canada for 15 years.

“But by speaking the truth about polar bears she fell foul of environmental activists who have long treated Ursus maritimus as one of the poster children for their “the Earth is doomed and it’s all our fault” narrative. As a result, without explanation, Crockford was ousted from her position at the university.”


7 posted on 05/21/2020 6:52:51 PM PDT by Stosh
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To: Zenyatta
The bottom line is what are conservatives going to do about this? We can't even start a new Facebook or Twitter competitor that will survive. Everybody can see that conservatives are just being frozen completely out of the conversation, yet they keep their FB and Twitter accounts anyway. Youtube is quickly following suit.

A conservative might start a new site, but it never gets more than a couple thousand members. Many of those are Nazi's or KKK members. When you promise total freedom of speech, sure enough they say just about anything including racist crazy rants. It appears to be the only answer is to regulate these "utilities" to be more fair.

I killed my FB account a couple of years ago for a few months and received all kinds of hell from family and friends. I just used it to sign on to other sites that take FB and Twitter logins. Now Drudge has gone to the dark side and I have to look for real news elsewhere. Maybe Trump could start his own site after his 2nd term. I'd sign up!

I'm waiting for Soros or Bezos to own everything. There is a reason we have the 2nd Amendment.

8 posted on 05/21/2020 7:11:06 PM PDT by chuckles
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To: chuckles

mewe.com is the alternative... lots of us have moved over there. just look for my username when you join and you will already have some friends. Lots of stuff posted that is being banned on facebook and youtube.


9 posted on 05/21/2020 8:19:17 PM PDT by willyd (I for one welcome our NSA overlords)
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To: Stosh

If an opponent wished to counter Prager with opposing facts or opinions on a specific issue, that’d be ok. Why not just publish the opposing data alongside, so viewers could decide for themselves?
But Facebook’s removal tactics clearly reveal an overall bias and desire to harass & discredit Prager incrementally & eventually make it dusappear, when enough people have wearied of fighting.


10 posted on 05/21/2020 8:29:08 PM PDT by mumblypeg
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To: chuckles

Yep. Everybody was touting gab, but I looked & want nothing to do with it. Much of it really *was* fringe nazis & white supremacist.
I wondered if maybe it’s deep state psyops. The talk was over the top wacko.


11 posted on 05/21/2020 8:36:23 PM PDT by mumblypeg
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To: chuckles
A conservative might start a new site, but it never gets more than a couple thousand members. Many of those are Nazi's or KKK members. When you promise total freedom of speech, sure enough they say just about anything including racist crazy rants. It appears to be the only answer is to regulate these "utilities" to be more fair.

Very, very few of those are actual 'nazis' or kkk morons. They are leftists/socialists/communists attempting to keep people away. Seems to work well for them.

12 posted on 05/22/2020 6:15:50 AM PDT by zeugma (Stop deluding yourself that America is still a free country.)
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To: chuckles

Go to John Solomon’s page: https://justthenews.com/


13 posted on 05/22/2020 8:24:50 AM PDT by bamagirl1944 (That's short for Alabama, not Obama)
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To: bamagirl1944
I don't have a problem getting the news. I have problems finding like minded people other than FR. I like to read and post with friends that aren't morons. Facebook and Twitter are 80% morons and the administrators will pull articles and posts that support Trump.

Sites that have "Fact checkers" tend to be what I'm talking about. You can post on FR and it has to be pretty bad to get pulled. Moat of the time the flames make it go away. On Facebook, they just remove it and you and the nonsense continues unabated.

As an example, China is now passing a law that won't allow any disagreement from Hong Kong. It's probably a Facebook and Twitter rule influencing it. Bezos now owns Youtube. It's over. All that's left is Soros buying FR to make the trifecta.

14 posted on 05/22/2020 8:44:09 PM PDT by chuckles
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To: chuckles

Gotcha, guess I missed the point. Sorry. Have a great Memorial Day weekend.


15 posted on 05/23/2020 9:58:23 AM PDT by bamagirl1944 (That's short for Alabama, not Obama)
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