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Zuckerberg Says He Regrets Censorship, So Why Is Meta Still Trying to Interfere With the Election?
Townhall ^ | Oct 03, 2024 | Tom Knighton

Posted on 10/04/2024 2:53:29 AM PDT by george76

We know that Facebook censored people throughout the pandemic. We know that if the Biden administration asked them to censor people, the social media giant did it..

This isn't groundbreaking news.

Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg said he regrets that the company did it, which is fine except that it could be argued that it constituted election interference. After all, a lot of the people who reported being censored were shut down because of their pro-Donald Trump rhetoric.

The same is true for those who report being throttled on the platform.

But Zuckerberg said that's over. He said he regrets it and it won't happen again, blah, blah, blah.

Now, let's go back four years earlier. Remember when it was a massive scandal because some pages on Facebook were reportedly set up by Russia to try and get Donald Trump elected? Granted, they were really just about creating discord, but they basically pushed memes, and that was election interference, at least as Democrats saw it.

Which brings me to today.

Now, what I'm about to get into is just one man's experiences, namely my own, but I can't help but notice something funny happening at Facebook.

I follow right-leaning pages and non-political pages related to my various interests. Some of those are meme pages, but they're apolitical unless the politics involve the area of interest specifically.

Yet, in the last few weeks, I've been getting more and more left-leaning content in my feed, and always from pages and groups that I don't follow, have no real overlap with any areas of interest, or anything of the sort.

Normally, I just hide everything from that group, but when I realized how bad it was, I started to figure I needed to get a screenshot of at least one example.

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Yeah, it's hardly the most egregious thing I've ever seen and it's not even the first time I've seen it. Some of my left-leaning friends think this is terribly clever for some reason.

Note the word "Follow" in the image next to the page's name. That's a clear indicator that this isn't something I've sought out. This showed up in my feed as something I should like, yet it has almost nothing to do with anything I've shared, commented on, posted, or anything of the sort.

There hasn't been a single one of these from the right. No libertarianism or conservative rhetoric in meme form from pages I'd never heard of and don't actively follow. Only from the left.

Based on how people reacted to things back in 2016, this should be defined as attempted election interference.

t won't work on me or millions of others, but the thing about this is that it doesn't have to work in a vacuum. Consumers get this in their feeds, leftist content on television, leftist rhetoric in their music, and pretty much everywhere else they look. It starts to infest their brains and slowly shifts their thinking and they don't even realize it. They simply don't know there are alternative points of view.

Zuckerberg may feel awful about caving to censorship demands, but I'm not seeing a lot of evidence he won't try to influence things in a completely different way.

It's possible I'm reading too much into this, but I doubt it.

Zuckerberg's operation is still playing games with our political process. It’s just doing it differently this time around.


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: censorship; electionfraud; electionintegrity; facebook; freespeech; meta; riggedelection; stolenelection; zuckerberg
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1 posted on 10/04/2024 2:53:29 AM PDT by george76
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To: george76

Does he regret buying a half billion dollars worth of democrat vote counters?


2 posted on 10/04/2024 2:57:26 AM PDT by MrRelevant
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To: george76

Playing both sides of the fence in case the election goes either way.


3 posted on 10/04/2024 3:02:15 AM PDT by ArtDodger
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Remember: One of Alinsky’s rules is that you accuse others of what you are doing yourself, dems do this anyway.


4 posted on 10/04/2024 3:06:53 AM PDT by quantim (Victory is not relative, it is absolute. )
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To: george76

Hey, Zuck. Repent of your many sins, grab a shovel, and get down to Appalachia.


5 posted on 10/04/2024 3:12:00 AM PDT by who knows what evil? (Hospitals are the most dangerous place on Earth! Dr. David Williams)
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I’m looking forward to Zuckerberg’s funeral.


6 posted on 10/04/2024 3:13:34 AM PDT by Navy Patriot (Celebrate Decivilization)
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BS...he enjoyed every minute.....on his way to the bank....


7 posted on 10/04/2024 3:13:50 AM PDT by Sacajaweau (mY)
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Akin to a pedo loudly crying how he hates what he does to children yet still goes after the kids non-stop.


8 posted on 10/04/2024 3:15:28 AM PDT by USCG SimTech
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To: george76

Ah the slithering sound of snakes in the grass.


9 posted on 10/04/2024 3:30:38 AM PDT by rottweiller_inc (inter canem et lupum)
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To: george76
I'm not seeing a lot of evidence he won't try to influence things in a completely different way.

Once he let the derpstate in, they took over. Suckerbum might not have any control over the CIA's domestic propaganda organ and domestic intelligence vacuum. Just a figurehead.

10 posted on 10/04/2024 3:41:45 AM PDT by Sirius Lee (Trump/Vance 2024 or GFY)
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Because he doesn’t mean it.
It’s just a statement for public consumption in case Trump wins.


11 posted on 10/04/2024 3:49:14 AM PDT by TexasM1A (GLASS HAMAS)
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Father of Lies, Synagogue of Satan, etc.

A filthy, evil man who aligns against America out of hatred of the People -whom he despises.


12 posted on 10/04/2024 4:07:05 AM PDT by Justa (Our constitution was made only for a moral and religious people....)
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To: ArtDodger

SO true... also, he’s a Liberal and they just can’t help themselves


13 posted on 10/04/2024 4:11:19 AM PDT by SMARTY (In politics, stupidity is not a handicap. Napoleon Bonaparte I)
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To: george76

Zuckerberg Says He Regrets Getting Caught at Censorship, So Why Is Meta Still Trying to Interfere With the Election? Because he’s scum?


14 posted on 10/04/2024 4:24:26 AM PDT by PIF (They came for me and mine ... now its your turn)
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To: george76

Regret does not mean change.

I regret needing to chop your head off said the executioner.
CHOP!


15 posted on 10/04/2024 4:43:11 AM PDT by Chickensoup
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Zuckerberg ain’t working the line, the people who hired the people who hired the people who hired... the line staff - you get the point.

He can start the change, or he can posture for attention - so what does it look like he’s doing to you?

Words don’t mean much in most cases.


16 posted on 10/04/2024 4:53:59 AM PDT by larrytown (A Cadet will not lie, cheat, steal, or tolerate those who do. Then they graduate...)
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Just because he regrets it doesn’t mean he’s gonna stop.


17 posted on 10/04/2024 5:21:40 AM PDT by rktman (Destroy America from withinE? Check! WTH? Enlisted USN 1967 to end up with this💩? 🚫💉! 🇮🇱👍!)
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To: quantim
That is not one of Alinsky’s rules.
18 posted on 10/04/2024 5:23:24 AM PDT by jasonandtheb
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To: george76

Zuckerberg is afraid Trump might win and wants to take focus away from him being a Marxist.


19 posted on 10/04/2024 5:28:25 AM PDT by jasonandtheb
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To: george76

The answer to the headline is quite simple. Zuckerberg likely has but a few functional synapses. He must have had enough to realize his own errors, but not enough to decimate the thousands of nearly illiterate morons sitting around in their underwear running Meta from their mother’s basement.


20 posted on 10/04/2024 5:34:21 AM PDT by norwaypinesavage (Freud: projection is a defense mechanism of those struggling with inferiority complexes)
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