Posted on 10/27/2021 10:18:26 PM PDT by Oshkalaboomboom
As whistleblowers continue to dump documents revealing internal Facebook discussions about controlling content, one thing is striking: The thousands of pages released so far contain zero signs of staff worries about (or even awareness of) left-wing hate speech and misinformation.
Perhaps we’re only seeing part of the picture. But Facebook staffers’ incessant drive to censor right-wing stories and sites suggests they really are blind to the often-outrageous speech from outlets on the other side of the spectrum.
The Wall Street Journal’s blockbuster report this week detailed how the social-media giant’s “employees have consistently pushed to suppress or de-platform right-wing outlets.” The company itself also gave out “strikes” when third-party fact-checkers ruled a platform had published “false” content, with repeat offenders sometimes suspended from the site: “Escalations came more frequently against conservative outlets.”
Breitbart News was a particular target, with Facebook staffers even trying to get the site removed from the News Tab, as one worker got kudos for his complaint about “Breitbart and similarly hyperpartisan sources (none of which belong in News Tab)” depicting Black Lives Matter “in a very negative way.”
Using two tools, Facebook reduced Breitbart posts’ traffic by 20 percent. Other right-of-center sites saw double-digit drops, too. “We could face significant backlash for having ‘experimented’ with distribution at the expense of conservative publishers,” one researcher admitted. The Journal found no “equivalent debates over left-wing publications” in the huge cache of documents it examined.
Management did push back — but not because it worried its woke workforce was too comfortable with censorship. Higher-ups feared that targeting Trump-friendly outlets would earn it more ire — and perhaps regulation — from the administration then in charge.
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And the coincidental 6 hour outage.
The sad aspect is the dismissal of the obvious
Yah, recognize that FBook long ago purged all non-commie staff. If you work at FB and are not a commie, it’s sorta like being a Jew in ‘30’s Germany — say nothing to anyone and pretend you are one of them.
To do otherwise is to die.
This is a horrible group of people, all of them.
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