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Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg rejects Trump bias claims
BBC News ^ | 28th September 2017 | bbc news

Posted on 09/27/2017 7:49:05 PM PDT by Ennis85

Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg has dismissed comments made by Donald Trump that the site has always been against him. The US president accused the social network of "collusion" on Twitter, branding it "anti-Trump". He made the same claim against the New York Times and the Washington Post. Facebook will shortly hand over 3,000 political adverts to congressional investigators probing alleged Russian meddling in the US election. The site believes the ads were probably purchased by Russian entities during and after the 2016 presidential contest. Facebook, Twitter and Google have been asked to testify before the US Senate Intelligence Committee on 1 November about the allegations of Russian interference. Facebook and Google have confirmed they have received invitations to attend the committee hearing, but none of the social media giants have yet said they will be present.

Mark Zuckerberg has made it clear in the past that he doesn't like Donald Trump - or at least, his policies. This statement shows frustration, I think. Not just with the president, but at the atmosphere swirling around Facebook at the moment - commentary that is painting it as a burden on the electoral process, and maybe even on society as a whole. He's trying to show all the good - as he sees it - that Facebook has done. He feels hard done by. And as a man obsessed by data and metrics, he's probably looking at the problem of Russian-backed fake news ads and seeing it as a minuscule part of all the election goings-on on his network of 2 billion people. But it's not the scale that's the issue here - but his immature refusal to face up to the public's concerns. It was less cover up, more cant-be-bothered.

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TOPICS: Culture/Society
KEYWORDS: facebook; mark; trump; zuckerberg

1 posted on 09/27/2017 7:49:05 PM PDT by Ennis85
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To: Ennis85

Does Zuckerberg understand English? His posse of biased fat feminist sensors with purple hair is a fact, and pointing that fact does not indicate an opposition to varied viewpoints and free speech


2 posted on 09/27/2017 7:54:53 PM PDT by JudgemAll (Democrats Fed. job-security Whorocracy & hate:hypocrites must be gay like us or be tested/crucifiedc)
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To: Ennis85; xrmusn
Hey Zuckerberg...

3 posted on 09/27/2017 8:10:44 PM PDT by rlmorel (Liberals: American Liberty is the egg that requires breaking to make their Utopian omelette.)
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To: Ennis85

Abandon Fecebook

The wealth you provide Zuckerberg is used against you.


4 posted on 09/27/2017 8:19:09 PM PDT by Lurkinanloomin (Natural Born Citizen Means Born Here Of Citizen Parents - Know Islam, No Peace -No Islam, Know Peace)
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To: rlmorel

Thats what I am ‘talking’ about.

We can label him ‘The lone wolf’ standing tall in a sea of malcontents.

He may become as popular as ‘face palm guy’, beer guy etc etc etc


5 posted on 09/27/2017 8:37:08 PM PDT by xrmusn ((6/98)""If the earth were flat, cats would have pushed everything over the edge by now")
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To: JudgemAll
He's not even human. The human leg doesn't bend like this: Image and video hosting by TinyPic I'm pretty sure he's either a robotic Reptoid or a seminiferous, tubelodial Buttnoid variant.
6 posted on 09/27/2017 8:50:48 PM PDT by tumblindice (America's founding fathers: all armed conservatives)
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To: xrmusn

Alright!


7 posted on 09/28/2017 4:49:30 AM PDT by rlmorel (Liberals: American Liberty is the egg that requires breaking to make their Utopian omelette.)
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To: Ennis85; Impy; fieldmarshaldj; Liz; GOPJ; NFHale; Diogenesis; ColdOne
Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg: ‘I Want Hillary Clinton to Win Badly’

I am beyond "banned" on FB. I am in FB limbo, that is, I have a FB page but I can't even log on to cancel. All they want is a govt-issued photo ID to begin to redeem myself. Not kidding!

8 posted on 09/29/2017 10:59:52 AM PDT by ding_dong_daddy_from_dumas (Mozart tells you what it's like to be human. Bach tells you what it's like to be the universe)
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To: ding_dong_daddy_from_dumas

Fb wants your photo ID ? Go tell those fascist pigs to screw.


9 posted on 09/29/2017 5:36:29 PM PDT by fieldmarshaldj (Je Suis Pepe)
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To: fieldmarshaldj
Go tell those fascist pigs to screw.

I would but I can't log on and I don't they have an email address.

10 posted on 09/29/2017 7:21:55 PM PDT by ding_dong_daddy_from_dumas (Mozart tells you what it's like to be human. Bach tells you what it's like to be the universe)
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To: ding_dong_daddy_from_dumas; Ennis85; Impy; fieldmarshaldj; Liz; GOPJ; Diogenesis; ColdOne

Never joined Facebook, never will.

Zuckerberg and I don’t see eye to eye on anything. No sense giving him money or my time.


11 posted on 10/01/2017 4:52:06 PM PDT by NFHale (The Second Amendment - By Any Means Necessary.)
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To: NFHale; Ennis85; Impy; fieldmarshaldj; Liz; GOPJ; Diogenesis; ColdOne
Facebook admits to blocking Wikileaks links in DNC email hack

FB accuses honest media of being unfair to Hillary, while they are incessantly manipulating everything they can to help her. They finally unblocked wikileaks after they realized that blocking it made people want to see it even more.

12 posted on 10/02/2017 11:22:39 AM PDT by ding_dong_daddy_from_dumas (Mozart tells you what it's like to be human. Bach tells you what it's like to be the universe)
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To: ding_dong_daddy_from_dumas

http://nypost.com/2016/07/24/facebook-admits-to-blocking-wikileaks-links-in-dnc-email-hack/

WOW - interestng ding dong..

from link:

Facebook admitted Sunday that it had blocked links to the Wikileaks trove of emails hacked from the Democratic National Committee.

In a Twitter post late Saturday, WikiLeaks accused the social media giant of “censorship” and gave its followers an online workaround, saying “try using https://archive.is.”;

The WikiLeaks allegation followed a firestorm of controversy that erupted earlier this year when former Facebook workers admitted routinely suppressing conservative news.


13 posted on 10/02/2017 11:38:54 AM PDT by GOPJ (Black men are 6% of the population - - they murder 42% of all cops killed in the line of duty.)
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