Leaked internal document reveals Facebook wanted special scrutiny of Candace Owens’s background

Facebook is being exposed as a naked propaganda organ that ought to be treated by law as a “publisher” legally responsible for the content it hosts, and not as a “forum” – the status it currently enjoys, exempting it from libel laws and other downsides of the content it spreads out to the world.

A must-read article in the Epoch Times by Petr Svab documents to shocking effort undertaken by Mark Zuckerberg’s propaganda operation.

Facebook has encouraged some of its employees to probe the background of conservative commentator Candace Owens for anything that could give the social media giant grounds to kick her off its platforms, an internal Facebook document described and partially leaked to Breitbart indicates.

The document is a spreadsheet on “Policy Review” of what the company calls “hate agents.” It was created in early April and was related to prominent figures recently banned from the platform, a Facebook spokesperson said. Owens was listed on the document under the note, “Extra Credit (We should look into these after we’re done with the above designation analysis).” The spokesperson believed Owens hadn’t yet been investigated.

Owens already has been subjected to suspension on what appears to be ideological grounds:

Dear @realDonaldTrump,

My @facebook page has been suspended for 7 days for posting that white supremacy is not a threat to black America, as much as father absence and & liberal policies that incentivize it, are.

I am censored for posting the poverty rates in fatherless homes. pic.twitter.com/Yh9DSW6DPk — Candace Owens (@RealCandaceO) May 17, 2019

A Facebook spokesperson said the account was suspended by mistake and restored later that day.

And just as much to the point, how many conservatives alter what they say in order to avoid suspension?

I’m noticing that almost all the conservative you-tubers I watch are avoiding key words to avoid the dreaded algorithms, and to avoid getting demonetized or shut down altogether. Most of them have alternate sites, but hang in with you-tube because its still the most popular place to find their videos. They’ll spell words, or use another similar word, to avoid words they believe will trigger the algorithm.

I just reposted Candace’s post that “violated community standards” and pinged her. I accompanied it with a picture of Suckerberg in his Nazi uniform and added a tweet from Epoch Times about what had happened. I quoted David Horowitz: “Inside every progressive is a totalitarian screaming to get out.”

If that doesn’t land me in FB jail, I don’t know what will.

Yes..they do have it all. OTOH they had it anyway.

There was a certain catharsis in unloading on Schmuckerberg on HIS platform.

I figured that were I to request my account be deleted, that they would not do as thorough a job of scrubbing it were I to scorch them and Schmuckerberg.

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