Facebook has been waging war on climate science lately. The Guardian reported that over this weekend, hundreds of social justice, indigenous, and climate groups had their accounts suspended apparently to disrupt a virtual protest against the Coastal Gaslink Pipeline in British Columbia. x Yesterday, GPUSA and hundreds of Wet’suwet’en frontline and solidarity activists organizing against…
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Russia, Facebook, and Trump: Facebook still eased fact-checking rules for conservative pages
So much for having things both ways. Disinformation flooding continues. x “Can Trump place Facebook ads that feature Nazi symbols? Yes… Can he spread lies about mail-in fraud? Yes. Can he threaten #BlackLivesMatter protesters with violence? Yes. Will be he be able to use Facebook to dispute the election? Watch this space…”https://t.co/WaxeEEUYqC— Adam Rifkin 🐼 (@ifindkarma)…
Facebook finally removes a Trump post
Donald Trump is a geyser of misinformation, and normally Facebook is only too happy to funnel that fount of fucknuttery through a fire hose and hit America in the blessed nethers with it. But finally — finally — they’re doing something about his rampant dishonesty. Facebook says it has removed a Trump-shared post featuring a clip of a…
Facebook profited from Boogaloo ads promoting civil war and unrest, finally bans the group
Facebook said it has removed 220 Facebook accounts, 95 Instagram accounts, 28 Pages and 106 groups that comprise the violent Boogaloo-affiliated network. An advertising boycott is beginning against Facebook. x The real reason big brands are joining the Facebook boycott? It could be a “handy excuse” to cut ad spend, some experts are claiming…@hannaheboland and…
Snapchat demotes Trump's account over incitement of 'racial violence and injustice'
It’s not Twitter, but it’s something. (As much as I’d like to see Trump’s Twitter account deleted, if he spent his tweetering time attempting to president, we may all regret it. He might actually draw up his long-promised “tremendous” health care plan, which would almost certainly include liberal references to Funyuns.) Variety: Snap, the parent…
Half the Twitter accounts pushing to 'reopen America' are bots
The other half are also pretty dangerous… “A lot of disinformation is done through innuendo or done through illogical statements, and those are hard to discover,” #ReOpenAmerica https://t.co/3QbqNbB5tZ — KatyCue (@KatyQWarrior) May 18, 2020 “Because [the pandemic is] global, it’s being used by various countries and interest groups as an opportunity to meet political agendas,”…
Group aligned with Don Jr. reportedly buying stake in OAN: 'Trump is really aiming to take down Fox'
The redoubtable Gabriel Sherman has another dispatch from the Phantasmagorical Land of Cray-Cray. It seems Fox News is not nearly obsequious enough for Donald John Trump, so he’s itching to cut them off at the very knees they’ve been shamelessly bending for the past five years. Vanity Fair: Trump’s view that Fox is insufficiently loyal…
Stop… with the Republican Talking Points!
The President has adopted a serious tone; it is not political, and Mr. Trump is a wartime President. All the previous statements are being palmed-off to the public as truths about President Trump and his handling of the novel coronavirus pandemic. I am sorry, but Mr. Trump is only consistent in one aspect of his…
Facebook made The Daily Caller an official fact-checker; here are the results
This is pretty chilling. x 2. On Friday, Politico published an article headlined “Trump rallies his base to treat coronavirus as a ‘hoax.’” The Daily Caller declared this was “false information.” If you try to post the article to Facebook, this is what you see. https://t.co/AoMU8uhDR8 pic.twitter.com/aDS4Ogpo1y— Judd Legum (@JuddLegum) March 3, 2020 x 4….
'Puppet Master and Agent': Russian state TV openly mocks Trump
How is it that everyone in America is skeptical of Russia’s intentions except the very people who for decades have had the most jaundiced view of the country? Now we have a pr*sident who openly favors Vladimir Putin at the expense of Ukraine, and they’re actively attempting to cover up our rascally Russian agent’s crimes….
A Somali refugee makes history in Maine while Facebook protects hate speech against her
Beginning in the 1970s, the city of Lewiston, Maine, suffered a massive population drain from all the closed mills. Thousands of Somali war refugees settled in the state’s second-largest city since the turn of the century and call it home. The refugees are actually credited with completely turning the city around since the first Somali family arrived in 2001. The new arrivals not only…
Why is Facebook trying to re-elect Trump?
Bullying works. Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg has been on a GOP charm offensive, and it seems to be working for the social media behemoth as it makes its allegiance to the Republican Party more open. In the days preceding his latest testimony before Congress, Zuckerberg had been “hosting a series of dinners with conservative journalists, right-wing…
Here’s What’s Phony – RW Content Masquerading as Local Newspaper Websites.
The Constitution and the emoluments clause are not phony, but dozens of websites pretending to be local newspaper sites are: Lansing State Journal “LANSING — Dozens of websites branded as local news outlets launched throughout Michigan this fall, with monikers like Lansing Sun, Ann Arbor Times, Thumb Reporter and UP Gazette, promising local news…
D.C. press whitewashes its role in 2016 email fiasco after State Department exonerates Clinton
Page 16 and 649 words. That’s how The New York Times treated the recent news that a years-long State Department investigation concluded there was no systemic or deliberate mishandling of classified information via emails sent to and from Hillary Clinton’s private server while she was secretary of state. The Times covered that story regarding a seminal event from…
Are Trump and Barr Extorting Facebook?
Natasha Bertrand and Daniel Lippmann have a piece up on Politico that suggests that drumpf may be using the Justice Department and the threat of breaking up Facebook to pressure Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg into allowing his campaign to publish bold face lies on the platform. Of course this would be highly illegal, and so right in step…
#Boycott ABC is Trending Thanks to Their Airing of the Violence Against AOC Ad.
#BoycottABC is now trending thanks to their airing of the despicable New Faces GOP PAC ad they ran and some of their stations during the Democratic debate last night. x The ad inciting violence by burning AOC’s face with human skulls and dead bodies was not only aired on Sinclair’s networks but also on ABC’s…
Trump drafting an executive order to stop Twitter and Facebook from curbing hate speech
It was a horrible week of child suffering. We saw children’s parents being taken from them instantly, with no thought given to the little ones left behind. We saw multiple mass shootings that didn’t spare children or babies. Our country is broken, and there are a lot of issues that need our immediate focus. Certainly,…
Murdoch channel was pulled off air in NZ over its coverage of Christchurch massacre
Rupert Murdoch’s Sky News Australia was recently bounced off the air for five days by Sky New Zealand over its refusal to stop broadcasting graphic video from the shooter who killed 50 people at mosques in Christchurch on March 15. Sky New Zealand is independently owned. ThinkProgress: This was despite calls from the police urging…
'OPERATION DIVIDE THE LEFT': Recent assault on Democratic candidates traced to 200 suspect accounts
A team of analysts at Politico found a small group of 200 accounts—specifically these guys—drove a “disproportionate” amount of racist and negative disinformation, over a 30-day period, targeting four Democratic presidential candidates for 2020: Sen. Kamala Harris, Sen. Bernie Sanders, Sen. Elizabeth Warren, and former Rep. Beto O’Rourke. In fact, between 2-15% of all Twitter mentions concerning these…
