Posted on 09/03/2018 8:13:41 AM PDT by UMCRevMom@aol.com
[Facebook Chief Executive Officer and co-founder Mark Zuckerberg speaks to the audience during the Facebook F8 2018 developer community event in San Jose, California, US on Tuesday, May 1, 2018.]
A group of about 100 conservative Facebook employees have formed an internal organization whose aim is to combat a liberal company culture considered by many to be intolerant of different views.
The group was started by a post on the social network company's internal message board last week, as reported by The New York Times on Tuesday.
"We are a political monoculture that's intolerant of different views," posted Brian Amerige, a senior Facebook engineer, according to the NY Times. "We claim to welcome all perspectives, but are quick to attack — often in mobs — anyone who presents a view that appears to be in opposition to left-leaning ideology."
The internal group has come to be known as "FB'ers for Political Diversity," its goal being to allow for increased ideological diversity within the Facebook company.
Recently, Facebook has garnered controversy both for concerns over how the site shares personal data and allegations of political bias, especially censorship of conservatives.
For example, in January, Facebook took down the socially conservative Warriors for Christ ministry page, which had about 225,000 followers, accusing it of hate speech and bullying.
While promoting its academic programs on Facebook, The Franciscan University of Steubenville had their ads censored due to them including a crucifix.
Facebook responded that they censored the image of Jesus dying on a cross because it violated their ban on "shocking, sensational, or excessively violent content."
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By contrast, when a group was formed on Facebook seeking to burn alive the woman behind the socially conservative "Activist Mommy" page, Facebook responded to her complaint by noting that the group "doesn't go against one of our specific community standards."
In May, it was announced that Facebook would have an external group with a former Republican member of Congress on their staff investigate whether they have an anti-conservative bias.
Meetings were also planned between Facebook executives and the conservative think tank The Heritage Foundation, according to a report by Axios.
Despite the investigation and other overtures, controversies continued in August over allegations of viewpoint discrimination regarding the social networking site's alleged mistreatment of the Activist Mommy and the Warriors for Christ pages.
"We are entrusted by a great part of the world to be impartial and transparent carriers of people's stories, ideas and commentary," wrote Amerige, the NY Times reports.
"Congress doesn't think we can do this. The president doesn't think we can do this. And like them or not, we deserve that criticism."
Stole his business idea
Stole all the shares from his BEST friend
Secretly sold users’ data
Stated in a confidential email to a friend that people who trust him are "dumb-f*cks".
Married in the community proprety state of California, the very day AFTER he took Facebook public.
Requested nude photos of users to “protect them against the risk of revenge porn”.
Secretly tried to get hospitals to release vast stores of patient data “so I can help cure diseases”.
Initially pursued total rights ownership of images uploaded to FB; if you'd been photoed as a happy youth with, say, a can of Coors then later got really famous, Zuck could be paid by Coors for zero work and YOUR old photo in a new ad while you, the centerpiece of the ad, would get NOTHING. Struck down after lengthy legal battles.
De-platformed numerous Conservatives because he didn't agree with their views, couldn't define hate-speech when asked by Congress.
Secretly requested banks give him his users' financial data, including transactions, so “my users can check their balances on my site."
Digitally permitted his housing advertisers to filter out customers whose search histories were strongly associated with terms like "handicapped" , "mobility scooter" and "guidedog".
Admonished that people "build bridges instead of walls", all while building walls around his Palo Alto homes and around the huge Kauai Estate he bought and then threw the Hawaiians off of.
Established a "trustwothiness index" for ALL his facebook users while disclosing it to none of them.
Altered FB algorithms to flag content from conservative publications as spam.
The lying, sniveling, snot named suckerburg will have them fired.
Bkmrk.
ZuckYou will be receiving well wishes from Obama and Hitlery...for all the info he funneled to them.
Could there be signs of a Mutiny?
Good, although I expect any such Coder-Rebellion to be quickly snuffed out. Perhaps others will follow, as with mushrooms growing in the dark.
Do ya think perhaps he’s a “coke-zucker”?
FB did a number of Diamond & Silk, too!
He has referred to himself as being the “Leader of Facebook”. If that was five years ago, imagine what he must be thinking now and what he’ll be doing five years from now.
Surprisingly, Tom Hanks calls out Apple, google, facebook, and others in this movie where the bright-eyed Emma Watson joins a company and is immediately consumed by the charisma of Tom Hanks as the CEO and the group think of the company.
This should be on Facebook.
Mutiny? The left would never tolerate it. I smell a rat. It is all smoke and mirrors, see we are tolerant at Facebook, not. I don’t believe it.
A group of about 100 conservative Facebook employees have formed an internal organization whose aim is to combat a liberal company culture considered by many to be intolerant of different views.
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Q: What do you call a group of 100 conservative facebook employees?
A: Unemployed
I wonder if FB will be announcing layoffs soon...100% of them from this group...
“The Circle” movie; very important to see this one. Great insights into what I believe is happening and will happen. Where group communication == mobs. Mobs may form against anyone, and will in the future, as a result of instant group communication. Anywhere you stand for truth, esp. if you’re alone or with a small group; you may get targeted.
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I thought that was a very perceptive flick. Creepy as well.
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