(TLDR Version: The GOP knows the are feeding lies to their base.)
Facebook created “Project P” — for propaganda — in the hectic weeks after the 2016 presidential election and quickly found dozens of pages that had peddled false news reports ahead of Donald Trump’s surprise victory.
Nearly all were based overseas, had financial motives and displayed a clear rightward bent.
In a world of perfect neutrality, which Facebook espouses as its goal, the political tilt of the pages shouldn’t have mattered.
But in a videoconference between Facebook’s Washington office and its Silicon Valley headquarters in December 2016, the company’s most senior Republican, Joel Kaplan, voiced concerns that would become familiar to those within the company.
“We can’t remove all of it because it will disproportionately affect conservatives,” said Kaplan, a former George W. Bush White House official and now the head of Facebook’s Washington office, according to people familiar with the meeting who spoke on the condition of anonymity to protect professional relationships.
When another Facebook staff member pushed for the entire list to be taken down on the grounds that the accounts fueled the “fake news” that had roiled the election, Kaplan warned of the backlash from conservatives.
“They don’t believe it to be fake news,” he said, arguing for time to develop guidelines that could be defended to the company’s critics, including on the right.
Being Americans first means this. Support individual freedom, limited government, free markets, property rights. Support the US constitution that restricts the ability of government to interfere in these natural rights. Support equal treatment under the law and reject rule of man in favor of rule of law. That is what America is all about Charlie Brown.
It’s apparent this administration is solidly behind individual freedom. At least the individual freedoms of the likes of Blagojevich, DeBartolo, Milken, Kerik, Friedler, Pouge, Safavian, Stanton, Hall, Munoz, and Negron. That’s absolutely favoring the “Rule of Law,” isn’t it? Oh wait, you mean the GOP Rule of Law, which is “Justice is for Just Us.”
When one side is doing all the damage, both-sideism amounts to nothing more than enabling the continuation of the damage by tarring everybody with the crimes of one party, and effectively discouraging voting from those most affected.
Sanspareil over 4 years ago
Anything that removes the tangerine traitor from the White House is good first step!
braindead Premium Member over 4 years ago
Being Americans first, would require realizing that Your Messiah, the president, is a Traitor.
You KNOW that, right Stantis?
Silly Season over 4 years ago
(TLDR Version: The GOP knows the are feeding lies to their base.)
Facebook created “Project P” — for propaganda — in the hectic weeks after the 2016 presidential election and quickly found dozens of pages that had peddled false news reports ahead of Donald Trump’s surprise victory.
Nearly all were based overseas, had financial motives and displayed a clear rightward bent.
In a world of perfect neutrality, which Facebook espouses as its goal, the political tilt of the pages shouldn’t have mattered.
But in a videoconference between Facebook’s Washington office and its Silicon Valley headquarters in December 2016, the company’s most senior Republican, Joel Kaplan, voiced concerns that would become familiar to those within the company.
“We can’t remove all of it because it will disproportionately affect conservatives,” said Kaplan, a former George W. Bush White House official and now the head of Facebook’s Washington office, according to people familiar with the meeting who spoke on the condition of anonymity to protect professional relationships.
When another Facebook staff member pushed for the entire list to be taken down on the grounds that the accounts fueled the “fake news” that had roiled the election, Kaplan warned of the backlash from conservatives.
“They don’t believe it to be fake news,” he said, arguing for time to develop guidelines that could be defended to the company’s critics, including on the right.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2020/02/20/facebook-republican-shift/
Brain Pudding over 4 years ago
Being Americans first means this. Support individual freedom, limited government, free markets, property rights. Support the US constitution that restricts the ability of government to interfere in these natural rights. Support equal treatment under the law and reject rule of man in favor of rule of law. That is what America is all about Charlie Brown.
Bookworm over 4 years ago
It’s apparent this administration is solidly behind individual freedom. At least the individual freedoms of the likes of Blagojevich, DeBartolo, Milken, Kerik, Friedler, Pouge, Safavian, Stanton, Hall, Munoz, and Negron. That’s absolutely favoring the “Rule of Law,” isn’t it? Oh wait, you mean the GOP Rule of Law, which is “Justice is for Just Us.”
William Robbins Premium Member over 4 years ago
Ok, that’s a good one.Maybe just get rid of parties altogether.
Kip Williams over 4 years ago
When one side is doing all the damage, both-sideism amounts to nothing more than enabling the continuation of the damage by tarring everybody with the crimes of one party, and effectively discouraging voting from those most affected.
TLH1310 Premium Member over 4 years ago
Blagojevich coined a scary term the other day. He called himself a Trumpocrat.
jbmlaw01 over 4 years ago
I think an amicable divorce is the best hope for the country. County-by-county vote to join red or blue.