Meta CEO admits Biden-Harris admin pressured company to censor Americans
Meta CEO admits Biden-Harris admin pressured company to censor Americans
Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg admitted in a letter to House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jim Jordan that the Biden-Harris admin pressured Facebook to censor Americans.
In Monday’s letter, Zuckerberg also wrote about throttling the Hunter Biden laptop story.
He wrote that the FBI warned his company about "a potential Russian disinformation operation" regarding the Biden family and Burisma, leading up to the 2020 election.
Trump's WH in fall 2020....
I wish that such government powers were equally opposed by both sides of the political aisle. New powers granted by one side usually end up being abused by the other.
Fox Business? The network that aired unapologetic bigot Lou Dobbs' show every single night for years?
If it's a blacklisted source I'll happily take down the post.
...or you could have the integrity not to use sources that platform bigots.
Oldie but a goodie.
They also labeled themselves as "entertainment" and not news to wiggle out of a couple lawsuits, and one of their lawyers argued in front of a judge that no sane person would believe their programs to get out of another lawsuit.
Facebook is about to go down in a flaming pile of dogshit. Just like twitter.
Isn't it mostly boomers and bots at this point?
I think its primary value is the fact that you can search for groups. Groups are a bane for people who are online but want to do things with people IRL, but unless you're willing to go to Discord, there's no better place for groups than FaceBook. I don't think there's a directory for GroupMe groups despite how many people use it to organize get-togethers.
Fuck this
Yeah, these hypocritical dipshits are the first to cheer on Palestinians getting deplatformed and harassed, and they want me to give a shit that they were occasionally prevented from spreading misinformation about medical realities in the middle of a pandemic? A middle finger the size of the sun isn't big enough for these assholes.
I mean...nothing in the article is false, right?
There's nothing in the article but Meta PR! It's not factual reporting, and Fox has done nothing to corroborate the claims and provide actual analysis.
Zuckerberg is vague about what he was asked to "censor" (humour and satire?) but also makes clear that Facebook rebuffed officials and all that happened was that those officials expressed frustration. What's the actual allegation here? Zuck got hurt feelings?
Zuck refers to Facebook's mission as "helping people connect in a safe and secure way" to try and downplay the Cambridge Analytics scandal the fact that they're are an ad platform first and foremost. This is Meta prop.
It amuses the hell out of me every time the conservatives whine about their brazen disinformation getting censored, since whenenver and wherever they get an opportunity (including, especially ironically, Facebook), they reveal themselves to be the most cowardly censorious people on the planet.
Everywhere, without exception, where conservatives have control, anything that even hints at undermining their comforting delusions is instantly censored.
But if anybody dares to censor anything they might want to say, including overt and deliberate lies, they wail and cry like the spoiled children they are.
I'm in a right wing Lemmy community run by someone who used to be alt right (and probably is but I muted him when he was spouting racist nonsense at me on another corner of the Fediverse), conservative@lemm.ee, and there is absolutely zero censorship over there. Most of the comments there are by people on the left.
I get what you're saying here to a point, there are a lot of right wingers who support censorship to varying degrees. Even Trump has spoken in support of some forms of censorship before, even if they didn't materialize into political policy ("opening up the libel laws" and his recent calls to make burning the American flag a crime come to mind). But it's not true that every single conservative supports anti-left censorship, without exception.
Dude, conservatives are literally
burningbanning books everywhere in the country where they have power. They've even banned books meant to encourage girls to learn how to code. Real bananas stuff, imoI appreciate you're trying to communicate well and you seem authentic and all, but it's very difficult to take your position seriously when it feels like you're not trying to challenge your own beliefs. There's a ton of evidence of conservative censorship going as far back as McCarthyism and interment camps, to rock and roll and rap music, to even burning comic books in the 50s, and that's just thinking of the US. There's a very long history of white conservative Christians censoring almost everything popular going back like hundreds of years
As a personal anecdote, my cousin had to break his pokemon gameboy games and burn his pokemon cards because his
dipshit momabusive mother thought they were satanic, simply because her church said so. I got some cool, holographic cards out of it, but I never forgot how messed up that wasand there is absolutely zero censorship over there.
The modlog says otherwise.
You do know about the modlog, yes?
Yeah Zuck, where were we without the Covid humor with thousands dying?
Not like all the Trump GOP misinformation posts had anything to do with it
Uh good? Social media should be censored pretty fucking frequently. I honestly feel like if Facebook just disallowed any discussion or advertising for anything political on their platform the electorate would be more informed.
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