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MelissaB

(16,420 posts)
Thu Aug 6, 2020, 08:26 PM Aug 2020

SCOOP: Facebok employees collected evidence showing preferential treatment of right wing figures. FB

SCOOP: Facebok employees collected evidence showing preferential treatment of right wing figures. FB policy ppl removed misinfo strikes from Breitbart, PragerU, and Diamond & Silk, according to internal docs. And FB fired a key employee who gathered info:

https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/craigsilverman/facebook-zuckerberg-what-if-trump-disputes-election-results


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SCOOP: Facebok employees collected evidence showing preferential treatment of right wing figures. FB (Original Post) MelissaB Aug 2020 OP
Buh buh buh ... the poor widdle wingnut snowfwakes are being CENSORED!!1!!1 (nt) mr_lebowski Aug 2020 #1
And still people insist there is nothing wrong with Facebook. Squinch Aug 2020 #2
they know, they just don't care Skittles Aug 2020 #7
Yep. And they act as if they would never communicate with family and would Squinch Aug 2020 #10
Falsebook is toxic, identity theft, propaganda hell. Nobody should mess with it. lagomorph777 Aug 2020 #11
And there's this issue on Instagram. MelissaB Aug 2020 #3
System Bug Sherman A1 Aug 2020 #5
"Bug" my ass. It's a feature. lagomorph777 Aug 2020 #12
It's no wonder Facebook is making news.. stillcool Aug 2020 #4
Someone needs to make it pellucidly clear to #uckerberg maxrandb Aug 2020 #6
And yet, we still have Facebook apologists here on DU. n/t Coventina Aug 2020 #8
Well, it looks like zuckerman will go down on Cha Aug 2020 #9

Skittles

(152,965 posts)
7. they know, they just don't care
Thu Aug 6, 2020, 11:53 PM
Aug 2020

as long as they can put the least effort into "keeping up with friends and family", they don't give a FUCK about FB fascism

Squinch

(50,774 posts)
10. Yep. And they act as if they would never communicate with family and would
Fri Aug 7, 2020, 02:58 PM
Aug 2020

shrivel and die if they didn't have Facebook.

It's bizarre.

MelissaB

(16,420 posts)
3. And there's this issue on Instagram.
Thu Aug 6, 2020, 08:32 PM
Aug 2020
A bug in Instagram's algorithm systemically shielded Donald Trump from negative hashtags without doing the same for rival Joe Biden, the company has confirmed




Fuck Zuck

stillcool

(32,626 posts)
4. It's no wonder Facebook is making news..
Thu Aug 6, 2020, 08:42 PM
Aug 2020

with a show of cracking down.

Individuals that spoke out about the apparent special treatment of right-wing pages have also faced consequences. In one case, a senior Facebook engineer collected multiple instances of conservative figures receiving unique help from Facebook employees, including those on the policy team, to remove fact-checks on their content. His July post was removed because it violated the company’s “respectful communication policy.”

After the engineer’s post was removed, the related internal “tasks” he’d cited as examples of the alleged special treatment were made private and inaccessible to employees, according to a Workplace post from another employee.

“Personally this makes me so angry and ashamed of this company,” wrote the employee in support of their colleague.

The engineer joined the company in 2016 and most recently worked on Instagram. He left the company on Wednesday. One employee on an internal thread seen by BuzzFeed News said that they received permission from the engineer to say that the dismissal “was not voluntary.”







maxrandb

(15,192 posts)
6. Someone needs to make it pellucidly clear to #uckerberg
Thu Aug 6, 2020, 10:06 PM
Aug 2020

That there will be no more half measures, and Dems are going to take a giant shit on him when they take back our country.

If he keeps this shit up, he needs to know that we will not be "kumbayaing" his ass, or doing the "oh, I'm sorry, let me make some campaign donations to you... can't we all get along" bullshit.

The fuckstick, and his fuckstick sidekick at Twitter, need to know that Congressional Committees are going to be so far up their asses they'll think they swallowed an elephant.

Better use the next 90 days get your shit together in one sock Zuck, because come January 4, 2021 Hell's coming.

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