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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Re:We wouldn't have these problems

[Anonymous Coward]

We wouldn't need to make a company do the people's bidding if people made use of the Internet instead of Zuckernet. Stop putting everything behind those walls.

Please address the Farcebook community properly as idiots.

We "people" don't consider the amplification of narcissism via social media as a viable or accurate channel for news.

Re:Forest for the trees

[Tailhook]

The REAL people in love with MSM are the progressives who love pointing to the echo chamber

This.

Last Sunday night at 9PM ET an outfit operating from a spare bedroom in Alabama streamed a Trump rally from NM to Facebook. No MSM filter. No MSM commentary condemning everything said as RaYSiSt!!1.

3.2 million views in less than 2 hours..... on a Sunday night. Several times more eyeballs than all of the cable news echo chamber combined during the same period.

ESPN SJW crap and malcontent NFL players are driving away viewers so fast that Major League Baseball is starting to win the ratings war for the first time in thirty years. The last reason many people had to pay for cable — pro football — is being ruined by the echo chamber and 621,000 subscriptions ended last month.