EXCERPTING:
Since the 2016 election Facebook has been cracking down on conservative
and pro-Trump content. Top conservative websites have seen a stunning
drop in their Facebook traffic.
This was no accident. This was the plan.
* Of course it was! And NOW it's filtering down to INDIVIDUALS! I've
been blocked from using my FB account for 24-hours!
* FOLKS... it's MAY. The Election is in SIX (6) MONTHS! Either you start
fighting back... YOU - AS INDIVIDUALS - now... or... by the fall... it'll
be too late. It'll be game over.
In January 2017, Facebook began making algorithm changes to make sure
conservative news was no longer so influential. The Gateway Pundit
Facebook traffic has consistently decreased with each algorithm change.
A March 2018 study by The Outline organization found conservative
publishers were hit the hardest by Facebook algorithm changes. The study
also showed that The Gateway Pundit was hit the hardest.
In March [of this year] Western Journal also published a study that found
conservative publishers were hit the hardest by the recent Facebook
algorithm changes. The report found that liberal publishers actually saw
a 2 percent increase in traffic. Conservative publishers lost an
average of 14 percent in traffic.
Facebook official Campbell Brown, a former anchor on NBC and CNN, told
attendees at a recent technology and publishing conference that Facebook
would be censoring news publishers based on its own internal biases.
And they did.
* Folks. It's BLATANT. And YOU need to start FIGHTING!
On Tuesday Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg announced that Facebook will
ramp up its censorship of “controversial” political content.
The announcement was made to a group of liberal publishers and the
anti-Trump Wall Street Journal.
Buzzfeed reported:
Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg said Tuesday that the company has already
begun to implement a system that ranks news organizations based on
trustworthiness, and promotes or suppresses its content based on that
metric.
Zuckerberg said the company has gathered data on how consumers perceive
news brands by asking them to identify whether they have heard of
various publications and if they trust them.
“We put [that data] into the system, and it is acting as a boost or a
suppression, and we’re going to dial up the intensity of that over
time,” he said. “We feel like we have a responsibility to further down
polarization and find common ground.”
* Geezus, folks...
(*JUST SHAKING MY HEAD*)
*
Again. Facebook isn't just another private company. They're more like a
utility. They're CLEARLY abusing their status and power and if they get
away with this... well... I'm afraid that if they get away with this...
we're done. If this is what they can get away with when Republicans
control Congress and the White House... well... what do you suppose
they'll be able to get away with if the Democrats take back one or both
houses of Congress via the upcoming November election?
Zuckerberg
met with a groups of news media executives at the Rosewood Sand Hill
hotel in Menlo Park after delivering his keynote speech at Facebook’s
annual F8 developer conference Tuesday.
The meeting at the Rosewood Sand Hill hotel in Menlo Park included
representatives from BuzzFeed News, the Information, Quartz, the New
York Times, CNN, the Wall Street Journal, NBC, Recode, Univision,
Barron’s, the Daily Beast, the Economist, HuffPost, Insider, the
Atlantic and others.
The event, called “OTR” (shorthand for “off the record”), is an annual
gathering meant for new media news executives to talk shop. It is in its
second year. Zuckerberg’s remarks were initially meant to be, like the
name of the conference, off the record, but he agreed to answer
questions on the record.
Zuckerberg said the company will invest “billions” of dollars in a
combination of artificial intelligence and tens of thousands of human
moderators to keep both fake news and deliberate propaganda at bay,
especially in elections.
There should be no doubt left....
Facebook is determined to shut
out conservative pro-Trump voices.