Facebook suppressed(es) conservative news stories

[hoosierdoc]

Former Facebook Workers: We Routinely Suppressed Conservative News

I have always suspected, now we know it's true.

Facebook and twitter are to blame for the rapidly shifting social morality issues we have today. Never before could a tiny minority shout so loudly and intimidate so many into silence.

 

[Jludo]

People still use Facebook?

And with twitter you get to set your own news sources/agenda, it doesn't compare to facebook in that regard.

Still despicable on Facebook's part, I say put the free market to work on it and encourage everyone to delete their accounts.

 

[HoughMade]

People still use Facebook?

And with twitter you get to set your own news sources/agenda, it doesn't compare to facebook in that regard.

Still despicable on Facebook's part, I say put the free market to work on it and encourage everyone to delete their accounts.

Sorry, friend, I'm still tracking down old high school girlfriends to see how their 40s are treating them.

 

[hoosierdoc]

Sorry, friend, I'm still tracking down old high school girlfriends to see how their 40s are treating them.

I ran into my HS girlfriend this weekend. I was with my family and it got REALLY awkward when she asked what time I was picking her up for prom.

 

[Jludo]

Sorry, friend, I'm still tracking down old high school girlfriends to see how their 40s are treating them.

I thought you'd been acting a bit more liberal here lately...

 

[OakRiver]

So did this start before or after the White House visits?

 

[KG1]

Facebook pretty much suppresses anything that doesn't follow their social mantra. They don't deal kindly with a dissenting opinion. Ask Roadie. He gets time outs quite frequently for dissenting opinions on anti-2A facebook pages.

They also are not dealing even handedly with dishing out discipline for reported alleged TOS violations. It all depends on one's social/political bent.

 

[GodFearinGunTotin]

Former Facebook Workers: We Routinely Suppressed Conservative News

I have always suspected, now we know it's true.

Facebook and twitter are to blame for the rapidly shifting social morality issues we have today. Never before could a tiny minority shout so loudly and intimidate so many into silence.

Well...somebody's got to check that privilege. They're obviously not goint to do it themselves.

 

[GodFearinGunTotin]

Facebook pretty much suppresses anything that doesn't follow their social mantra. They don't deal kindly with a dissenting opinion. Ask Roadie. He gets time outs quite frequently for dissenting opinions on anti-2A facebook pages.

They also are not dealing even handedly with dishing out discipline for reported alleged TOS violations. It all depends on one's social/political bent.

The guy that runs a gun store down in Paoli recently used his wife's account to announce FB had sidelined him for 3 days for mentioning something about a trade he'd taken on an AR.

 

[Lowe0]

Facebook and twitter are to blame for the rapidly shifting social morality issues we have today.

Facebook: the new [strike] Dungeons & Dragons rock and roll comic books jazz[/strike] whatever it was before that.

I wonder if they said the same thing about the wheel? "Ugg no like wheel. Wheel let people be lazy. Wheel cause moral decline."

 

[hoosierdoc]

Facebook: the new [strike] Dungeons & Dragons rock and roll comic books jazz[/strike] whatever it was before that.

D&D didn't force social change. No one was shamed into staying silent because Peter was killing orcs in his basement

 

[Scuba591]

So I just posted the link on my Facebook page and then shared and liked it as well. Let's see what if any blowback I will receive.

 

[Lowe0]

D&D didn't force social change. No one was shamed into staying silent because Peter was killing orcs in his basement

Facebook isn't forcing social change, either. It's just a bunch of people connected together; they still make their own decisions about who they want to interact with. It just lets them do so easier and faster - is efficiency not a good thing?

 

[chipbennett]

So, the un-named Facebook "curator" is named Winston Smith?

 

[hoosierdoc]

Facebook isn't forcing social change, either. It's just a bunch of people connected together; they still make their own decisions about who they want to interact with. It just lets them do so easier and faster - is efficiency not a good thing?

But it's more than that. People are afraid to disagree with an agenda for fear of being called racist/sexist/homophobic. You have a normal person post something and it goes viral and their lives are destroyed for simply having a traditional value. Others see that and shut up. Then all you hear is the super minority position echoed infinitely and the masses assume the majority agrees with it because it's all they hear. Then they don't want to be a fringe so they go along with it.

Of course it's good for the minority position, bad for the standard bearers.

 

[Lowe0]

But it's more than that. People are afraid to disagree with an agenda for fear of being called racist/sexist/homophobic. You have a normal person post something and it goes viral and their lives are destroyed for simply having a traditional value. Others see that and shut up. Then all you hear is the super minority position echoed infinitely and the masses assume the majority agrees with it because it's all they hear. Then they don't want to be a fringe so they go along with it.

Of course it's good for the minority position, bad for the standard bearers.

How is that different from before social media? Did people not previously draw their own conclusions about the words and actions of others, and then act on those conclusions?

 

[hoosierdoc]

How is that different from before social media? Did people not previously draw their own conclusions about the words and actions of others, and then act on those conclusions?

there was no massive public shaming and fear of the entire digital world coming down on you. Sitting with a friend and making a comment about transgendered people in a bathroom at worst would start a gossip chain. Now you can be screen-shotted, posted to a forum with a digital army of activists who can easily find your personal information, family names, address, and make your life a living hell. In about thirty minutes.

Yes, it's different now.

 

[MuttX7]

The whole problem is that people get their news from Facebook. Track down your own sources and use more than one. I used to laugh about people getting pissed over articles from the Onion and Duffleblog when I still got on Facebook. The influx of even more satire sites has made it even harder for lazy people to know the truth.

 

[hoosierdoc]

Here is a great example of my point

Facebook Forced Black Lives Matter Story To Trend | The Daily Caller

The Black Lives Matter movement began on Facebook, and its strong presence on social media was hailed in the press.

“Facebook got a lot of pressure about not having a trending topic for Black Lives Matter,” the former curator told Gizmodo. “They realized it was a problem, and they boosted it in the ordering. They gave it preference over other topics.”

 

[Lowe0]

there was no massive public shaming and fear of the entire digital world coming down on you. Sitting with a friend and making a comment about transgendered people in a bathroom at worst would start a gossip chain. Now you can be screen-shotted, posted to a forum with a digital army of activists who can easily find your personal information, family names, address, and make your life a living hell. In about thirty minutes.

Yes, it's different now.

So what you're saying is that you want to be free to say what you want about transgendered individuals, but that you don't want others to say what they want about what you said? Seems selective.