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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsFacebook Is Punishing Liberal Sites And Rewarding Conservative Ones
https://thebanter.substack.com/p/facebook-is-punishing-liberal-sitesIve always preferred Twitter to Facebook. In fact, these days, I prefer severe testicular injuries to Facebook, and if I could hastily abandon Mark Zuckerbergs data-mining operation, I would do it. Unfortunately, I need to promote my work, so I hold my breath and deal with Facebooks ongoing fuckery. Frankly, I envy those who can bail out whenever they choose. You mightve heard that Twitters Jack Dorsey has decided to summarily ban all political advertising on his platform -- another reason why Twitter continues to be my thing. Yes, Twitter is screechy, obnoxious, and there are still too many trolls and creepazoids dodging the terms of service, but whenever Im on Twitter, which is most of the day, I feel like Im plugged into the hub, the nerve center of the political discourse, for better or worse. Nothing could be more educational, entertaining, and relentlessly infuriating on the internet than Twitter, and -- lord help me -- Im happy to be there.
On the same day when Twitter took decisive action to thwart the blitzkrieg of paid propaganda, Facebook executives, on the other hand, announced they were banning eggplant and peach emojis whenever theyre posted with sexual intent. Put another way: One platforms busily confronting a serious crisis, while the other platform is regulating dick-shaped produce. Remind me again which platform deserves our attention and which platform should be ejector-seated onto the social-network slagheap with the likes of Friendster and MySpace. As if that werent bad enough, Zuckerberg shrugged off the fact that, despite hiring fact checkers, political ads with known falsehoods are still being approved and posted by his corporate goons. Likewise, we just heard that Zuckerberg is allowing certain publications to flagrantly violate Facebooks rules -- rules that Facebook more or less invented retroactively to punish hundreds of publishers a little more than a year ago in a mass-banning effort known colloquially as the purge.
On October 11, 2018, the platform Thanos-snapped around 800 U.S.-based accounts, disappearing the pages forever, presumably for uploading political propaganda. While some of the accounts could be shoehorned into the category of propaganda, many of the accounts were run by legitimate publications, with pages featuring links to the accompanying websites, as well as links to partner sites. My girlfriend and podcast partner, author and blogger Kimberley Johnson, was among the users who were purged that day, in addition to other liberal accounts like Reverb Press and Nation in Distress. Despite having spent hours per day for years posting content on Facebook, and despite following the terms of service as they existed at the time, she lost several of her pages, her personal profile account, and even her secret friends-and-family page.
The page run by the publication she worked for at the time, Liberals Unite, was also obliterated as was her ability to earn a living as a writer. All those years and years of effort, photos, ideas, connections -- lost in an instant. No warnings, no temporary suspensions, no three-strikes. Just vanished with the snap of Zuckerbergs sweaty fingers, mainly because he screwed up royally, stupidly accepting Russia money in 2016 and was facing government regulations, but also because hes a sociopath. Making matters worse, there was no one to whom she could appeal her removal. The only thing she heard back from Facebook was that she engaged in inauthentic behavior. Specifically, she would routinely post the same links across several pages -- links to articles she wrote or articles she thought were valuable or interesting. There wasnt any rule against doing such a thing, but the A.I. bots or admins at Facebook decided that doing so was inauthentic even though its something many of us with several pages on Facebook often do. I know I promote my own work on both by podcast Facebook page and my personal one.
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Facebook Is Punishing Liberal Sites And Rewarding Conservative Ones (Original Post)
Celerity
Oct 2019
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Remember Campbell Brown? She's now a FB executive defending bringing on Breitbart.
hlthe2b
Oct 2019
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hlthe2b
(102,225 posts)1. Remember Campbell Brown? She's now a FB executive defending bringing on Breitbart.
Don't forget her for this. No way back to the light, now, Campbell? Your "sell-out" will not be forgotten.
Celerity
(43,299 posts)2. She was before my time, I was less than a year old when she joined NBC, 11 when she joined CNN, and
14 when she left telly. Plus I was living in London and Hong Kong for almost all of that time. I fully admit I know little of her political bias.
Campbell Brown (journalist)
there is this
hlthe2b
(102,225 posts)3. In 2006 she married Dan Senor--big RWer and Fox contributor...
She's been very much turning RW since
BTW. that small font in your included passage is very hard to read, but yes, she once was a "straight-up" and unbiased journalist.
Celerity
(43,299 posts)4. here is a copy and paste of that section
Interviews during the 2008 election season
On September 1, 2008, Brown conducted a controversial interview with Tucker Bounds, a spokesman for Republican Presidential candidate John McCain, concerning Vice-Presidential candidate Sarah Palin. Brown questioned Palin's executive experience and asked for examples of decisions Palin had made as the commander-in-chief of the Alaska National Guard. Bounds did not name an example, but he stated that Palin had more executive experience than Democratic Presidential candidate Barack Obama. The McCain campaign later accused Brown of anti-Republican/anti-McCain bias, and said she had "gone over the line."
On September 1, 2008, Brown conducted a controversial interview with Tucker Bounds, a spokesman for Republican Presidential candidate John McCain, concerning Vice-Presidential candidate Sarah Palin. Brown questioned Palin's executive experience and asked for examples of decisions Palin had made as the commander-in-chief of the Alaska National Guard. Bounds did not name an example, but he stated that Palin had more executive experience than Democratic Presidential candidate Barack Obama. The McCain campaign later accused Brown of anti-Republican/anti-McCain bias, and said she had "gone over the line."
hlthe2b
(102,225 posts)5. Thanks... yes, she used to be a good reporter/interviewer.
Then she started attacking planned parenthood and increasingly defending all the myriad of issues that Dan Senor promotes.
Too bad. I used to like her. I no longer trust her.
She sounds like bad news.