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Facebook Users Cry 'Censorship' After Being Told Which Russian Troll Pages They Liked (gizmodo.com)
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Gizmodo: As the FBI's investigation into Russian election interference reaches a fever pitch, Facebook rolled out a new News Feed alert Monday night. The bulletin told users who followed pages created by Russian trolls that those pages have been removed. And some of the affected users did not like this. A brief search revealed that numerous people believe that this is an act of censorship by Facebook. Some users argued that they should be allowed to decide what's "true, fake, or otherwise," a challenge that's bound to be a slippery slope in this era of algorithm-based confirmation bias. Others took on a more conspiratorial tone, claiming that Facebook failed to reveal which pages were removed (despite the alert containing a link listing the pages in question). Facebook first released the information in December, creating a help page that showed users if they liked or followed pages and accounts associated with the Internet Research Agency, Russia's notorious troll farm, but today's alert seems to have inspired newfound alarm. The fact that Facebook explicitly stated which pages were deleted seems to have done little to reduce the anger over the allegedly clandestine silencing.
It'd be sad if it wasn't so predictable.
What made the USA great was the ability to read, publish, self publish, review publications, talk about books and news. Now social media wants to stop all that discussion in the USA.
I guess since we can't do it on facebook, that means it's prohibited everywhere! Oh wait, no, nobody is stopping you from doing any of those things! It's almost like there are some Terms of Service that you have to abide by for certain platform! If there were some way people could put content on the internet without such things. Too bad nobody will ever figure out how to make a website or connect a server to the internet. Clearly facebook was the last site that ever figured that one out!
Your argument holds less water than aerogel.
Anons need not reply. Questions end with a question mark.
"Facebook is actually an Internet entertainment site and should not be taken literally, or seriously."
Take my Facebook. Please.
"National Security is the chief cause of national insecurity." - Celine's First Law
As to whether any particular FB user is what he claims to be...well, I don't believe it here, and don't believe it there, either....
OMG!!! Are you telling us that you might not be the Crimson Avenger?!! :o
Debate is a form of harassment. Do not question my truth.
...and the outcry is simply a ploy to destabilize Facebook?
OK...
looking for a downside...
still looking...
I give up.
Could fake news turn out to be good news?
You have the right to remain sentient. If you give up the right to remain sentient, you will be elected to public office
No idea what was spent on GOP candidates because Russia does not have to report their expenditures.
"If you want a picture of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face -- for ever."
--George Orwell, 1984
Curiously, Facebook, Inc. owns the domain Faceboot.com, and it redirects to Facebook.com.