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Latest WikiLeaks Reveal Suggests Facebook Is Too Close For Comfort With Clinton (hothardware.com)
MojoKid writes: As we quickly approach the November 8th elections, email leaks from the Clinton camp continue to loom over the presidential candidate. The latest data dump from WikiLeaks shines a light on emails between Hillary Clinton's campaign manager, John Podesta and Facebook Chief Operating Officer, Sheryl Sandberg. In one email exchange, dated June 6th, 2015, Sandberg expresses her desire for Clinton to become president, writing to Podesta, "And I still want HRC to win badly. I am still here to help as I can." While that was a private exchange, Sandberg also made her zest for seeing Clinton as the 45th President of the United States publicly known in a Facebook post on July 28th of this year. None of that is too shocking when you think about it. Sandberg has every right to endorse whichever candidate she wants for president. However, a later exchange between Sandberg and Podesta showed that Mark Zuckerberg was looking to get in on the action a bit, and perhaps curry favor with Podesta and the Clinton camp in shaping public policy. Donald Trump has long claimed that Clinton is too cozy with big businesses, and one cannot dismiss the fact that Facebook has a global user base of 1.7 billion users. When you toss in the fact that Facebook came under fire earlier this year for allegedly suppressing conservative news outlets in the Trending News bar, questions begin to arise about Facebook's impartiality in the political race. The report also notes that Sandberg is at the top of the list when it comes to picks for Treasury Secretary, if Clinton wins the election. In an interview with Politico, David Segal, executive director for Demand Progress, said "[Sandberg] is a proxy for this growing problem that is the hegemony of five to ten major Silicon Valley platforms." Lina Khan, a fellow with the Open Markets Program at the New American think tank adds: "If a senior Cabinet member is from Facebook, at worst it could directly interfere [in antitrust actions]. But even in the best of cases there's a real worry that it will have a chilling effect on good-faith antitrust efforts to scrutinize potential anti-competitive implications of dominant tech platforms."
Why even have elections? It's a waste of time and money and corporations have already picked the winners.
What happened to the BoA materials? Did wikileaks not release them because they're not personally relevant to Assange and his own personal feuds?
I do not want your cheap brainburning drugs. They are useless for work. And I am a working man today.
In China, the people who control the media support the party. And the party makes sure the top people who control the media get rich.
We are no different.
I am being inundated with all sorts of pro-Trump posts by one of my friends. All the anti-Clinton conspiracy posts. Every damn one of them. Including one that was so bad that even Fox News published a retraction.
So as far as I can tell FB isn't shaping much, otherwise they would have tweaked that mysterious algorithm that only shows you posts from people that they want you to see and then for everything else goes "What post? I don't see any post? What do you mean you saw a post 5 minutes ago and now you can't find it in your feed? No idea what you are talking about."
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This is such a shill response. The difference is Facebook isn't a news outlet. You watch Fox or CNN knowing that its right or left biased.
Facebook welcomes people right, left, up, down, purple, green, magenta, and so on. Its an open platform for dialogue. If heads of that company are giving advantages to one candidate over another and are leveraging their platform to do so, or enforcing rules more strictly towards those with a different point of view, then that's what this article is referring to.
When Biff Tanner for President says the election is rigged, he doesn't mean voter fraud/rigging. He means the whole election process, campaigns, media coverage, etc.. to drown out opposing views, ignore the controversies about their person of choice, and further push a pre-determined collaborated narrative under the illusion of independent or neutral platforms. Vote manipulation happened within the primaries. Enough with this Russia crap already.
Evidence has come out again and again that these emails were not altered (thank you, DKIM), and that James Clapper, the one who lied under oath about NSA domestic spying, and pushed the false narrative of WMD's, is the one saying that. Do you really think the Coast Guard, Department of Energy, DEA, US Marine Corps Intel, etc.. are supporting this claim despite being out of their scope? Russia seems to be the scapegoat that she loves to use over and over again, even against Bernie according to the leaks.
Fox News is (part of) a broadcaster. Plenty of competition so partisanship is acceptable.
Facebook is a medium. No effective compeitition so partisanship is unacceptable.
( But I hope it works anyway :-} )
If you are saying this without sarcasm you are an idiot. Agree/disagree with Wikileaks all you want but at least know what the organization is about.
WikiLeaks specializes in the analysis and publication of large datasets of censored or otherwise restricted official materials involving war, spying and corruption. It has so far published more than 10 million documents and associated analyses.
IOW, they specialize in government dealings because that is what is 'censored or otherwise restricted official materials'.
The difference is that if you have dirt on Trump any media source will publish it and you won't need protection from the government. If you leak government secrets you either get jailed, holed up in Russia, or worse. The point of Wikileaks is to protect the leakers from the government you mongoloid.
There are plenty of other news organizations that are digging up dirt on Trump. Or did you forget getting grabbed by the pussy? Or did you forget the X million of dollars losses in a tax return leak? Or did you forget the lawsuits of Trump University?
FFS. Apologetic shills just get to me in the morning before I have had my coffee.
notably, the people who've been called out on the contents of the emails, immediately push the "Stolen by Russia" narrative, and never address the actual contents of the emails. ...Which can be verified by DKIM sig
https://www.reddit.com/r/DNCleaks/comments/58il3v/dkim_rules_out_the_it_may_be_altered_defense/