Posted on 10/05/2020 12:41:22 PM PDT by Red Badger
(CNS News) -- This morning, constitutional scholar, best selling author, and conservative talk-radio host Mark Levin tweeted out a message he had received from Facebook, stating that his Facebook page would experience “reduced distribution and other restrictions.”
Levin said the restriction is “a clear effort at censorship.”
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On Levin’s page, Facebook posted, “Your Page has reduced distribution and other restrictions because of repeated sharing of false news. People will also be able to see if a Page has a history of sharing false news.”
On Facebook, Levin remarked, “Facebook has just sent us this message. It’s a clear effort at censorship. Every link I post is from a legitimate source. But because so many people are seeing what I’m posting and we’re within weeks of the election it’s clear that Facebook is trying to influence the election’s outcome.”
“It’s also clear Facebook is pushing a leftwing agenda,” said the New York Times best selling author. “I’ll address this tonight on radio.”
The Mark Levin radio show is ranked No. 4 in the nation, according to Talkers.com.
Currently, Levin’s Facebook page has over 1.5 million likes and slightly over 1.49 million followers. On Twitter, Levin has 2.5 million followers.
TechWatch, a division of the Media Research Center, has reported on Facebook allegedly censoring conservative media, including advertisements this month from President Donald Trump’s campaign, labelling them “misleading.”
“In recent months, Facebook has removed or labelled multiple posts from Trump,” said TechWatch. “On September 3, for example, Facebook flagged Trump’s post that told voters how to make sure their votes have been properly collected and tabulated."
"In August, Facebook Chief Operating Officer Sheryl Sandberg said that the platform is prepared to take down any of the president’s posts that violate its definition of ‘hate speech’ or ‘misinformation,'" reported TechWatch. "The platform also removed a video of Trump discussing the effects of COVID-19 on children in the same month.”
Mark Levin is the author of numerous books, six of which were New York Times best sellers. In addition to his syndicated radio show, he hosts the TV program Life, Liberty & Levin on the Fox News Channel. Levin held several posts in the Reagan administration, including chief of staff to Attorney General Edwin Meese.
(Disclosure: CNS News is a division of the Media Research Center.)
I see it was their catch-all “missing context”, which they use when what you post is entirely accurate, and paints democrats in a bad light, because you don’t also include the democrat lies trying to refute what you are posting.
Even some of what many consider the best of them take Google graft.
So now we'll see, if the big deal lawyer brings legal action against Facebook for libel. I'm guessing he will not, or will quietly settle for no compensation if he does.
ML/NJ
I think you are dead wrong about Radio. So much more liberty is expressed over the airwaves than over IP.
Thanks for the information, Mark. See something, say something. National socialists...thought burners.
A Free Republic is a Fun Republic.
A Facebook republic...not so much.
A twitter republic...no thanks.
The precondition of a civilized society is the barring of physical force from social relationships—thus establishing the principle that if men wish to deal with one another, they may do so only by means of reason: by discussion, persuasion and voluntary, uncoerced agreement.
The necessary consequence of man’s right to life is his right to self-defense. In a civilized society, force may be used only in retaliation and only against those who initiate its use.
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They are not service providers any more. They are in the content publishing business like newspapers and magazines and should be subject to the same laws. It will happen in Trump’s second term.
“The trouble for Levin is that radio is a 1930’s technology that is slowly dying. Social media is how you reach the masses these days.”
I’m sure Levin can stream his show live on his web page if he is not already doing so.
More liberty expressed, yes.
Growing audience to partake in it, no.
Levin does stream at his website.
I had to quit listening though because for some reason he was selling ad time to the Lincoln Project to run those hideous anti-Trump ads.
I’ve no use for Facebook but Levin is always honest and most often correct. I’d want to see what “false news” he allegedly posted. I bet it’s not. We really need to define these internet sites in a way where they can’t do this. And we need to break up the monopolistic sites like FB, Googoo, Twitter, etc. Competition helps consumers
Fake news? Mark Liven? A more knowledgeable truthful man is one of a dwindling few who publishes his Conservative views. When Hillary was running for potus, I kept exposing her lies when I could prove them and her ingenuousness and hypocrisy regularly on FB....’they’ threw me off. I didn’t understand their onesidedness at the time...would never had used them in the first place...as part of Social Media, everyone should avoid FB as long as they censure anyone who doesn’t toe their line.....
If we didn’t have FR...how amplified could our words get outside of our circle of family and like minded for continued discussion and counterpoint without commercial interruption or artificial time constraints?
HOORAY JimRob! One of the wheels on the Free Republic vehicle.
All that you say about ElRusbo is true.
He is 69. And he has a health prognosis which, let’s face it, is not good.
If his heir-apparent tries to rebuild the machine on AM radio it will be an EPIC FAIL. The conditions that existed 32 years ago when Rush did that just do not exist today.
Interesting. Thanks. Good eye/ear.
note to self. check Lincoln Project...and....I’m off...
Got it. Seen enough. WOW! Thanks, much.
Different utility for different audiences. Social media is an extension of radio, not a replacement.
Not for younger people. Most of them could not find a station on the dial. One of my millenial children does not even own a radio.
I cannot recall anything Mark has said that is untrue.
Then we will lose.
Regulate them like a utility company.
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