Facebook Needs To Protect Human Rights Issue, Civil Groups Say (cnet.com)

Facebook needs to be more forthcoming about the kinds of content it takes down. That's according to 73 organizations, including the American Civil Liberties Union, Black Lives Matter, SumOfUs and more, who signed a letter sent to Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg. From a report on CNET: The group asks for more clarity on the social networking giant's position on removing video and other content that highlight civil rights issues at the behest of authorities. The growing importance of Facebook in your life means it plays a central role in the news, video and content you see. That was made horrifyingly clear over the summer when its Facebook Live streaming video tool was used to broadcast the shooting of a black man by a police officer in Minnesota. The next day, the medium was used to broadcast a sniper firing shots at police officer at another civil rights demonstration. "With the onset of Facebook Live, your company is taking on an increasingly central role in controlling media that circulates through the public sphere," the letter said. "News is not just getting shared on Facebook: it's getting broken there."

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Uphold Journalistic Standards

[BigBuckHunter]

I believe we need to hold Facebook to the same high standards of Journalism (Accuracy, objectivity, ethics, unbiased and verified) as we do the major media outlets like Fox, CNN, NYT, NPR, and Rolling Stone Magazine.

(Thank goodness nobody can see my face as I typed that)

Re:Forest for the trees

[Archangel Michael]

I am a "baby boomer" (supposedly, and depending on when the end date actually is).

A lot of babyboomers (people older than me) have disconnected from the MSM (Newspapers, TV) completely. They aren't getting "news" at all, because they find it unreliable. The REAL people in love with MSM are the progressives who love pointing to the echo chamber of the MSM for all their own view points.

For instance, these people are the ones that cannot formulate a single coherent reason why Clinton should be president, except "she has a vagina". And it doesn't matter what WikiLeaks has on her (RUSSIANS!!!!). She could be involved in child sex slavery and they would still vote for her.