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Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg Rejects Trump Bias Claims (bbc.com)
Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg has dismissed comments made by Donald Trump that the site has always been against him. From a report: The US president accused the social network of "collusion" on Twitter, branding it "anti-Trump". He made the same claim against the New York Times and the Washington Post. Facebook will shortly hand over 3,000 political adverts to congressional investigators probing alleged Russian meddling in the US election. The site believes the ads were probably purchased by Russian entities during and after the 2016 presidential contest. Facebook, Twitter and Google have been asked to testify before the US Senate Intelligence Committee on 1 November about the allegations of Russian interference. Mark Zuckerberg has made it clear in the past that he doesn't like Donald Trump -- or at least, his policies. "This statement shows frustration, I think. Not just with the president, but at the atmosphere swirling around Facebook at the moment -- commentary that is painting it as a burden on the electoral process, and maybe even on society as a whole. He's trying to show all the good -- as he sees it -- that Facebook has done.
Those ads will have done far more harm to trump in the long run if they really did help him get elected.
His goal was to become president. The ads helped him get elected. He wouldn't have become president without those ads. Trump has multiple bankruptcies hanging over him and if he didn't become president, he might well have ended up in real financial trouble by now. What was a loser like Trump (who has been financially outperformed by Paris Hilton) supposed to do?
"You're right," Fisheye says. "I should have set it on 'whip' or 'chop.'"
Facebook's discrimination against anyone that isn't progressive or liberal is very well documented. Unfortunately this is an issue as they have a monopoly on social media the likes of which the world has never seen. This gives them the ability to manipulate public discussion and discord that is the envy of many nation states. An example of Facebook abusing their monopoly is their attempts to redefine the truth using progressive political activists as fact checkers.
http://www.foxnews.com/us/2016...
http://dailycaller.com/2016/12...
http://www.theblaze.com/news/2...
http://www.breitbart.com/radio...
People are waking up and realizing that the facebook ministry of truth is more focused on propaganda than facts. It hasn't even been a year and their fact checking efforts are having only a very slight difference or even backfiring.
https://www.theatlantic.com/te...
However, Facebook will unquestionably learn to be more subtle in their political manipulations in the future. When you privatize the public square you also effectively privatize constitutional rights. Should facebook be broken up or regulated? Their position, power and propensity to abuse their power has created a threat to our democracy.
Well, hold on now... Here's what the guy said:
That is maybe the most accurate and succinct description of the Trump agenda ever written. If that's what Russia was doing, then yes, they were "supporting Trump".
Trumpism is purely about identity politics on steroids. There is no other ideology, there is no other ethos.
You are welcome on my lawn.
Gizmodo has a few articles about how Facebook rigs their service in order to push an agenda. Here are a few Gizmodo articles:
Facebook Could Rig The General Election... And We Wouldn't Even Notice
http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/2017/06/facebook-could-rig-the-general-election-and-we-wouldnt-even-notice/
Facebook Shruggingly Admits It's a Tool for Propagandists
https://gizmodo.com/facebook-shruggingly-admits-its-a-tool-for-propagandist-1794722491
Former Facebook Workers: We Routinely Suppressed Conservative News
https://gizmodo.com/former-facebook-workers-we-routinely-suppressed-conser-1775461006