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Facebook Now Sending Messages to Some Users Asking About Potentially ‘Extremist’ Friends
Epoch Times ^
| July 2, 2021
| Jack Philips
Posted on 07/02/2021 3:11:12 AM PDT by Seeing More Clearly Now
Some Facebook users have recently reported being sent warning messages from the social media giant relating to “extremists” or “extremist content.”
“Are you concerned that someone you know is becoming an extremist?” one message reads. “We care about preventing extremism on Facebook. Others in your situation have received confidential support.”
The message also provides a button to “Get Support,” which leads to another Facebook page about extremism.
Redstate editor Kira Davis, who said was sent a screenshot of the message from a friend, wrote: “Hey has anyone had this message pop up on their FB? My friend (who is not an ideologue but hosts lots of competing chatter) got this message twice. He’s very disturbed.”
How sweet…#Facebook is offering support🙄😂 #Censorship #extremism #CancelCulture pic.twitter.com/gJKNepZudG
— John Burnett (@IamJohnBurnett) July 1, 2021
And others reported getting a warning that they may have been “exposed to harmful extremist content recently.” The message then states that “violent groups try to manipulate your anger and disappointment,” similarly offering a “Get Support” option.
“Facebook randomly sent me this notice about extremism when I clicked over to the app. Pretty weird. … The Get Support button just goes to a short article asking people not to be hateful,” another user on Twitter wrote.
A Facebook spokesperson confirmed to The Epoch Times on July 1 that the company is currently running the warnings as a test to some users. . . . .
(Excerpt) Read more at theepochtimes.com ...
TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Miscellaneous; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: censorship; facebook
To: Seeing More Clearly Now
But FB could do something about that HACKER/SPAMMER trying to sign into my Facebook account every other day by the name of “namuulor” I would appreciate it because every day I go look at my spam and there’s a message... Again somebody’s trying to thwart my password?
Is there a forwarding address I could send these nagging posts?
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posted on
07/02/2021 3:27:06 AM PDT
by
Clutch Martin
(The trouble ain't that there is too many fools, but that the lightning ain't distribBluted right.)
To: Clutch Martin
Dump FB!
Stop feeding the beast!
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posted on
07/02/2021 3:33:25 AM PDT
by
Tagurit
(Are your pigs fed, watered and ready to fly?)
To: Seeing More Clearly Now
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posted on
07/02/2021 3:36:28 AM PDT
by
ZULU
(Impeach John Roberts, Coney-Barrett, Kavanaugh and Gorsuch. TRAITORS)
To: Tagurit
Yes exactly.
If we can’t even sacrifice Facebook in this fight for the country’s soul, then we are worse off than I thought.
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posted on
07/02/2021 3:43:08 AM PDT
by
Claud
To: Seeing More Clearly Now
Only useful idiots have a facebook account.
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posted on
07/02/2021 3:43:41 AM PDT
by
joma89
(Buy weapons and ammo, folks, and have the will to use them.)
To: Seeing More Clearly Now
Facebook, Twitter, Google and all the other tech tyrants are like China. We built the relationships and could end them easily as the enemies that they are but America fuels them. Even some on here won’t ever dump Facebook because their life is on it. It’s quite sad.
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posted on
07/02/2021 3:47:14 AM PDT
by
shanover
(...To disarm the people is the best and most effectual way to enslave them.-S.Adams)
To: Seeing More Clearly Now
Jumpin’ ju-ju bones, George Orwell was either a time-traveler or he just had incredible prescience. We are all subversives and counter-revolutionaries now!
Facebook users are reporting today that warnings and alerts are showing up on their feeds notifying them they may have been “exposed to extremist content.” The alerts provide users the option to “Get Support” from some entity that will assist them in deprogramming the unauthorized thoughts that may have followed exposure.
It is easy to see where this ideological control mechanism is going. Big Tech doesn’t want comrade citizens exposed to thoughts and opinions that might run counter to the approved worldview of the totalitarian state. It’s actually quite remarkable to see this so publicly pushed, and see them so open about it.
Obviously a visit to the wrong website (your internet travel obviously being tracked by the command and control authorities) will likely trigger the warning. Visit The Conservative Tree House and receive a warning upon exit “you have been exposed to harmful extremist content”.
I think back to that scene in 2001 A Space Odyssey when Dave Bowman is trying to stop the computer system HAL-9000 (artificial intelligence) from controlling his behavior, control his spacecraft, and ultimately killing him: “Dave, I’m afraid I can’t let you do that”…
Yikes, this approach from Big Tech is creepy as hell.
On the positive side of this, the effort is resoundingly going to backfire amid a larger segment of the younger population, they are already using subversive accounts like Fleebook, Flinsta and Fleet to avoid detection amid their online activity. The rebel alliance will only become more slippery and more focused on the need to approach everything with the insurgency mindset.
Regardless of how much Big Tech, Big Intel and Big Government synergize in their efforts to control human behavior, the Rebel Alliance ultimately wins every long-term contest. History proves this to be true. The need for freedom is still an inherent and underlying human condition amid the majority.
As Mike Vanderboegh said so eloquently:
“We will not go gently into that bloody collectivist good night. Indeed, we will make with our defiance such a sound as ALL history from that day forward will be forced to note, even if they despise us in the writing of it. And when we are gone, the scattered, free survivors hiding in the ruins of our once-great republic will sing of our deeds in forbidden songs, tending the flickering flame of individual liberty until it bursts forth again, as it must, generations later.”
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posted on
07/02/2021 4:06:45 AM PDT
by
Bratch
To: Tagurit
“Dump FB!
Stop feeding the beast!”
Why? I enjoy looking at the beast and poking it in the eyeball.
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posted on
07/02/2021 4:07:49 AM PDT
by
Clutch Martin
(The trouble ain't that there is too many fools, but that the lightning ain't distribBluted right.)
To: Seeing More Clearly Now
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posted on
07/02/2021 4:08:48 AM PDT
by
mewzilla
(Those aren't masks. They're muzzles. )
To: Seeing More Clearly Now
I have an FB account solely for trolling the Left and posting articles in direct conflict with FB's leftist agenda. I recommend that every Freeper do the same thing. Imagine if tens of millions of non-leftists used FB for the same purpose. . .
It's fun and satisfying using one of the Left's primary weapons against truth and reality against it.
I was just banned for a week for being critical of "Pride." I simply listed the medical problems gays deal with due to their extreme sexual practices like insane promiscuity, fisting, felching, rimming and piss drinking. I also spoke of the FACT that gays suffer from STDs, drug addiction and suicide far in excess of straights. Spoke of the FACT that gay men's lives are significantly shorter than straight men's because of these practices and then said, "So why is this dangerous lifestyle, one engaged in by approximately 2% of any given population, being presented by the leftwing media, leftwing politicians and gay activists as ubiquitous; something to be proud of and to emulate.
Bingo - within five minutes of posting it FB's "hate speech" algo flagged it and off to jail I went.
To: Clutch Martin
Because, at Facebook, you’re not the customer, you’re the product.
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posted on
07/02/2021 4:12:55 AM PDT
by
mewzilla
(Those aren't masks. They're muzzles. )
To: Seeing More Clearly Now
"Hi, my name is I-Hate-Myself-and-Blame-Strangers-for-My-Problems and I am an extremist. I'm a member of Antifa, Black Lives MatterTM and a registered Democrat. I'm non-binary, gender fluid, and vegan."
To: mewzilla
That is classic. Posted on FB for a rhetorical poke in the eye.
To: mewzilla
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posted on
07/02/2021 4:59:13 AM PDT
by
sauropod
(The smartphone is the retina of the mind's eye.)
To: Tagurit
I dumped FB right after the floyd riots started when.i realized that it simply isnt worth it.
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posted on
07/02/2021 5:04:17 AM PDT
by
Jaysin
(Trump can’t be beat, if the Democrats don’t cheat)
To: Claud
Amen! Get off Facebook NOW!!
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posted on
07/02/2021 5:50:01 AM PDT
by
JoJo2020
(I take a knee to God only!)
To: Seeing More Clearly Now
I’m concerned that Mark Zuckerberg may be a puppet of the CCP,
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posted on
07/02/2021 6:52:26 AM PDT
by
Maurice Tift
(Never wear anything that panics the cat. -- P.J. O'Rourke)
To: Seeing More Clearly Now
Use it to report any liberal you know.
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posted on
07/02/2021 7:05:03 AM PDT
by
cableguymn
(We need a redneck in the white house.... But the fact checkers said the story was false!)
To: Rocco DiPippo
“ I have an FB account solely for trolling the Left…”
I also have an alias account. I haven’t checked it for awhile, but I probably have this message there waiting for me.
I wonder if FR FB is on Suckerberg’s list? Well, I’m not wondering too much about that.
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posted on
07/02/2021 7:59:27 AM PDT
by
VanShuyten
("...that all the donkeys were dead. I know nothing as to the fate of the less valuable animals)
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