Facebook prevents us from advertising Fox News stories about our research on shootings

Crime Prevention Research Center ^ | September 3, 2018 | John R. Lott, Jr.

[rogerantone1]

Our attempts this week to put up ads on Facebook produced some disturbing results. Facebook treated a news link from Fox News and a link to our website very differently, even though both contained the same information. We have previously been prevented many times from linking to our Fox News opinion pieces, but we hadn’t thought about the issue of systematic bias against Fox News until the events of this week.

[ButThreeLeftsDo]

Ping.

[Boomer]

Facebook should change its name to CensorBook. If they don’t like what you have to say; you will be block, suspended, or banned.

In other news I hear small businesses are running away from FakeBook. This is good news.

[Reno89519]

Bias that needs to be called out. Maybe monopolistic behavior? Seems there should be serious investigation. Individuals and companies that lose revenue and are demonetized should have grounds to sue. Where’s FTC, DOJ, etc. investigations?

[montag813]

Then SUE, dammit! Shop for a favorable judge and get on with it.

[Celerity]

It still blows my mind why my patriot friends, family and even my wife - including all of the people here at FR even use that ridiculous site.

And everyone says “I keep in touch with old friends and distant family”

Pick up a phone.

[EagleUSA]

ZuckYou and his complicit leftist mob protecting the fine members of the radical left....RATS PROTECTING RATS.

[tomkat]

John, if you'd asked me I'd have saved you all the wasted aggravation: Fb is EVIL

[libh8er]

It’s time conservatives stopped demanding equal access on liberal territory. Don Jr is right. Conservatives need to build their own platforms. There is a huge market for it just as there was a market for Foxnews when it came along, and if done right it can do to facebook what Foxnews did to the MSM.

[morphing libertarian]

If I were in charge i would have a social page, a religious one and a political one with no restrictions.

[LegendHasIt]

Well, what did you expect?

As far as I am concerned, anyone who gives Facebook and/or Zuckerberg (or Twitter) the ability to permit or deny them anything deserves any abuse that they get

[cableguymn]

sue for what??

FB is a private company.. while some might disagree, there is no first amendment right there. If laws or precedence is created to control or force FB to do something, they will use the same tactics against FR and other sites.

It’s a battle we don’t want to start.

[cableguymn]

bingo... We need alternatives to FB and the others..

let them “die on the vine” when we all leave them.

it’s kinda like going Galt.. only not disappearing.

[pepsionice]

I think as we near the 2020 presidential election, there will be massive issues with Facebook, YouTube, and Twitter...with public confidence spiraling. Their business model? It’ll be in decline for the first time ever and stock-holders will be demanding answers.

[lapsus calami]

 

 

Conservatives need to build their own platforms.

 

That would be the logical route to take - under normal circumstances. But we are not living in what could be called normal circumstances. Stop, look & listen - the techno tyrants aren't gonna allow alternatives. Efforts would be made to co-opt from the inside - how could employees be screened to not be adversarial. The IT profession is awash in socialist millennials. Could a company even get away with attempting such screening these days - doubt so. Someone would leak such an effort, and a derogatory pile-on by the left would ensue, which would feed into a coordinated effort to damage the brand. Efforts would be made to buy out alternative platforms, to be another cog in the Google/Facebook machine or subsequently dissolved after acquisition, removing the threat. Lawfare could be employed, suits filed claiming IP violations - that their platform was copied, code "stolen" or some such, tied up in legal actions in friendly courts until the end of time, destroying any fledgling company with legal fees if they were to try to contest the allegations. We're not in Kansas anymore, Toto. They have declared and demonstrated their agendas and intent, time and time again. It's war, and they are conducting themselves as such.

 

 

[Vendome]

Would be awesome if you gave some consideration to your stupid masthead.

Made the article unreadable for how much of the screen it takes up...

[Cruz]

ping for later

[DAC21]

“FB is a private company...”

Facebook INC. NASDAQ Ticker FB, $175 per share.

What is the private company you speak of?

[Pollard]

FacistBook

[bmwcyle]

Hidethetruthbook for the elites.