Posted on 01/31/2020 11:09:38 AM PST by karpov
At a dinner last week in Davos, Switzerland, I was asked if I thought Facebook was behaving more responsibly today than it did during the 2016 presidential election.
“Not at all,” I answered. “Facebook helped Trump to get elected and I am afraid that it will do the same in 2020.” I explained that there is a longstanding law — Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act — that protects social media platforms from legal liability for defamation and similar claims. Facebook can post deliberately misleading or false statements by candidates for public office and others, and take no responsibility for them.
I went on to say that there appears to be “an informal mutual assistance operation or agreement developing between Trump and Facebook” in which Facebook will help President Trump to get re-elected and Mr. Trump will, in turn, defend Facebook against attacks from regulators and the media.
“This is just plain wrong,” a Facebook spokesman told Business Insider.
I disagree. I believe that Mr. Trump and Facebook’s chief executive, Mark Zuckerberg, realize that their interests are aligned — the president’s in winning elections, Mr. Zuckerberg’s in making money.
Let’s look at the evidence: In 2016, Facebook provided the Trump campaign with embedded staff who helped to optimize its advertising program. (Hillary Clinton’s campaign was also approached, but it declined to embed a Facebook team in her campaign’s operations.) Brad Parscale, the digital director of Mr. Trump’s 2016 campaign and now his campaign manager for 2020, said that Facebook helped Mr. Trump and gave him the edge. This seems to have marked the beginning of a special relationship.
More recently, direct contact between the two men has raised serious questions. Mr. Zuckerberg met with Mr. Trump in the Oval Office on Sept. 19, 2019.
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As a NAZI collaborator his citizenship should be revoked
“ George Soros should be in hell for being a Nazi collaborationist.”
He will be soon. Of course, the Lord would forgive him, should he repent and ask for forgiveness, but I imagine Soros considers himself above anything like that.
I agree.
The hypocrisy I have seen since Trump’s victory is nothing short of Astounding.
I have to read things 3 times sometime to believe them.
Well that and I need glasses but that’s not important now.
Zuck at least SAYS stuff that sounds semi apolitical.
The others don’t even try.
Yes he has. I’d love for us to extradite him to the nation that would given him the most time behind bars. He actually deserves it for some of the destruction he has caused.
Except that occasionally Burns had a conscience. Soros and his son are evil 24/7.
Is this from the Onion or Babylon Bee another insanity by Don Lemon?
I don’t think Facebook helps President Trump, but what it actually does is to allow BOTH sides to present their arguments. Soros is accustomed to having a near-monopoly on the dissemination of information that favors the left.
Jawohl!
Yet the Slimes promotes him.
What does that make the Slimes?
At his age he is barely in charge of his bladder...at least i hope so.
The same Slimes we have come to know it as.
Perhaps right about Z but George Soros should be in prison.
Soros should be grateful that Facebook does not treat him as shabbily as it does Republicans.
Did Zuckerberg do something right? Or is Soros using reverse psychology?
Soros knows a competitor when he sees one. And his first instinct is to have him kneecapped. You can bet that if Soros were to get his hands on Facebook, it would be pedal-to-the-metal against conservatives.
Agreed. The old nazi needs to be shut down with his $ taken for a soroznazi victims’ compensation fund. ASAP.
Well, the dems have google, the msm, unions and the education establishment K- college.
Did Zuckerberg flip? Last time I saw him on tv, he looked scared and defeated.
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