Posted on 11/19/2016 6:37:42 PM PST by Rockitz
Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg has a message for his billion-plus users: "you're not capable of deciding for yourself what is 'news' and what is not, so we will do it for you."
Facebook has been widely blamed - by the left-leaning mainstream media - for allowing the spread of online misinformation, amusingly much of it pro-Trump, but Zuckerberg has rejected the notion that Facebook influenced the outcome of the election or that fake news is a major problem on the service.
"Of all the content on Facebook, more than 99 percent of what people see is authentic," he wrote in a blog post on Saturday.
"Only a very small amount is fake news and hoaxes."
Which is why we found it odd that since such "a very small amount" of Facebook is "fake", why the left-leaning CEO would draft up his 7-point plan for eradicating "misinformation" from the social network (via Facebook)...
A lot of you have asked what we're doing about misinformation, so I wanted to give an update.
The bottom line is: we take misinformation seriously. Our goal is to connect people with the stories they find most meaningful, and we know people want accurate information. We've been working on this problem for a long time and we take this responsibility seriously. We've made significant progress, but there is more work to be done.
(Excerpt) Read more at zerohedge.com ...
“conveniently late”
Disagree. The end game here is to selectively kill conservative news stories, IMO.
Zuckernews!
The final few weeks, I saw a lot of questionable stuff flying around FB, from BOTH SIDES.
So in the final analysis, what is good for the goose is also good for the gander.
Censor away, if you can. It appears Trump’s campaign did well. Probably due in part, to Bannon’s involvement and resources he brought to the effort.
I am a lay person on social media, but the subject fascinates me.
conveniently late for the election (let the left lies be posted) and now just in time to censor conservative news.
fake news from the Clinton News Network and New York Slime?
IMAGE OWERSHIP:
At one early point in internet history, Zuckerberg was going to make his user permissions such that if you uploaded to your FB account a photo of you or ANYONE featuring a product, Mark would OWN the image AND he would have the right to license it for advertising.
Like you snap a photo of your hot sister with a bottle of Stolichnaya Vodka...?
Mark would charge Stoli for using that photo, and Stoli would PAY MARK.
If his proposal had been deemed legal, you could be driving down the highway and SEE YOUSELF in an ad that you had NEVER BEEN PAID FOR..!!
Of course, it didn’t pass but it really shows you the gall the guy had.
We’re all dedicated Capitalists, but socialist Mark had ideas about ownership that were just completely insane.
Zuckerberg is very wealthy and either very stupid or willingly ignorant. 99% of news stories spiked on Facebook were positive towards conservatives or anti Hillary. Anyone for Trump was censored or had their accounts suspended.
Want to fix Facebook news? Get rid of the entire editorial staff and hire Sharryl Atkinnson to run your news department. Let her hire the staff to do your news.
Facebook has been censoring conservatives for years, but they’ve been more egregious over the years.
Trump supporter BLOCKED by Facebook for complaining about site’s censorship of right-wing activists
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3603345/Conservative-activist-Lauren-Southern-banned-Facebook-mentioning-censorship.html
Facebook Bans Gay Magazine Critical Of Islam
http://www.breitbart.com/london/2016/06/17/facebook-bans-gay-magazine-critical-islam/
WikiLeaks Makes DNC Look Bad - Banned on Facebook and Shadowbanned on Twitter
http://investmentwatchblog.com/twitter-is-shadow-banning-dncleak-to-make-it-go-down-in-trends-and-wikileaks-links-are-banned-on-facebook-now/
FUMZ
Information want’s to be free.
...and Obama will become a billionaire becoming the “curator” of the facebook google internet.
Someone smart will create a business model promising free access to news and ideas.
They’ll make a bundle.
They have. It’s called FReeREpublic. :)
Why not a 5 year plan instead
Communists and fascists are fond of them.
I've never been able to trust anyone like that. It's like coming out of open heart surgery and claiming not to believe in cardiac specialists. To be from an ancient heritage as that and to disavow God's role in preserving his people...
Such a man is worse than a fool. Why should anyone be comfortable with him deciding what is news and what is not?
From facebook to faceME Sugarberg daddy
As usual, all such political roads lead to ME in this narcissistic world
Been hating this wiener and his pathetic odd smile and girly boobs for a long time. I hope this atheist libtard buipds up enough fatty tissue in his tubes to keel. Lib Jews make me sick.
If it’s only 1% then why sweat it?
Facebook-Lead news tonight at the top was an article about the death of Natalie Woods.The article was from 2O11.
Given known factors involved, I expect this will cause an increase in misinformation.
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