Posted on 06/03/2019 7:27:18 AM PDT by bitt
The Daily Beast recently doxed a black forklift driver and reported Trump supporter for the alleged high crime of creating a parody video of Democrat speaker of the house Nancy Pelosi. But there’s more to the story — it appears Facebook may have helped the left-wing journalists identify him.
The Daily Beast identified the video creator as Shawn Brooks, whom they described as a forklift driver and Trump supporter from the Bronx.
A Twitter account claiming to be Brooks disputed key details of the story, claiming he is not a Trump supporter, did not create the parody video, and does not live in the Bronx.
By doxing Brooks, The Daily Beast followed the example of CNN, which threatened to unmask an anonymous Trump supporter over a parody video, forcing to him apologize in exchange for not revealing his identity. The scandal caused “CNNBlackmail” to trend on Twitter.
But there’s another aspect to the Daily Beast story which has major implications for the privacy of Facebook users — according to the Daily Beast reporter himself, Facebook gave him information on Brooks’ activity on the platform.
Via the Daily Beast:
It’s conceivable that someone else actually edited the clip. But a Facebook official, confirming a Daily Beast investigation, said the video was first posted on Politics WatchDog directly from Brooks’ personal Facebook account. [emphasis ours]
If the Daily Beast’s description of Facebook’s actions is accurate, Facebook compromised the privacy of one of its users, handing over information on his activity to a journalist who was clearly engaged in a politically motivated hatchet-job.
(Excerpt) Read more at breitbart.com ...
Thanks bitt.
Verizon doesn’t judge your phone calls. They don’t decide: “You’re a Trump supporter — you can’t make phone calls any more.”
Not yet, anyway. But it is not a stretch to imagine a campaign to get Verizon or other carriers to deplatform users who are making “probable hate calls”.
If he’d posted a jihadist video against Trump, he’d be praised by the left.
$100 million lawsuit.
The Left is a criminal organization.
All of these people engage in constant and deliberate attempts to manipulate the voters.
“The Daily Beast recently doxed a black forklift driver and reported Trump supporter for the alleged high crime of creating a parody video of Democrat speaker of the house Nancy Pelosi. But there’s more to the story — it appears Facebook may have helped the left-wing journalists identify him.”
Let’s do an imitation of a lunatic libertarian to justify this:
The Daily Beast and Facebook are private companies, so they have freedom of speech to squash this guy. If the man doesn’t like getting doxxed by fascists and communists, he should simply start his own Facebook and Daily Beast.
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