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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KS-Sen: Roger Marshall (R) Has Sad About Facebook Taking Down His COVID-19 Conspiracy Theory Post
Cry me a river: U.S. Rep. Roger Marshall is accusing Facebook of censorship after the social media giant removed a post from his account that promoted a conspiracy theory about federal reports of coronavirus deaths. In the comments that Marshall posted Sunday, he said the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention had “quietly updated” its…
The Black reporter who quit over headline speaks, Katy Tur grills Facebook VP, and more
Black reporter Daniel Thompson explains why he quit The Kenosha News. Katy Tur did what so many would have liked to do, challenge Facebook. Reporter Daniel Thompson and Katy Tur spoke. x x YouTube Video Politics Done Right Live weekdays @ 3:00 PM Central Video Zoom: LINK — Live Calls: (346)248-7799 ID:254 0 9091 Katy Tur…
MSNBC Katy Tur grills Facebook VP about taking down Trump's lying posts
MSNBC Host Katy Tur challenged Facebook VP of Global Affairs & Comms Nick Clegg about pulling down Trump's messages that misinforms. Once again Katy Tur did not disappoint x x YouTube Video Watch the full episode here. Katy Tur did what she does best, challenge those in power without fear. She did so when she challenged Michael…
CO-Sen: HuffPost, “John Hickenlooper (D) Trolls Cory Gardner (R) With Pro-Trump Facebook Ad”
Yesterday, I highlighted this: Sen. Cory Gardner (R-Colo.) is running a new Facebook ad, touting his close relationship with President Donald Trump. “We’re asking patriots nationwide to show that they support the pro-growth, conservative agenda that President Trump and I are fighting for ― will you join them? Sign your name now to say ‘thanks’…
CO-Sen: HuffPost, “Cory Gardner Runs Pro-Trump Facebook Ad Being Seen Everywhere — Except In CO”
The Huffington Post reports that U.S. Senator Cory Gardner (R. CO) has been boosting a new Facebook ad touting his record being Trump lapdog. But as the article points out that the only place you won’t see it popping up is in Colorado: In theory, the campaign may not have chosen any geographic targeting, and…
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…
RW extremists find affinity in FB groups because Facebook helps them find each other
“…Facebook right now continues to host boogaloo groups who are getting around just the basic level of content moderation they’re doing for these groups….” — MSNBC reporter Brandy Zadronzny “[DemocracyNow.org]…we have seen the boogaloo movement congregating on Facebook for several months now…. they’ve been organized really since the outbreak of the coronavirus,… they think this could…
Live Blog: Trump COVID-19 daily briefing / campaign rally – “Did you know that I’m #1 on Facebook?”
Live Blog below WH Press Briefing 5pm ET Trump has extended the range of what counts as having “done a good job” from 100k deaths to a range of 100-200k. x My latest: Like a virus, Trump adapts. He's now shifting his stance to set the stage for claiming 200,000 American deaths as a victory–so…
How is it that Facebook had 750,000 facemasks lying around and other Trumpian absurdities
We are now beginning to see the dimensions of the crisis as Trump in his presser continued to not actually implement the DPA but rather use it as a threat to encourage corporate volunteerism, as if getting a Pernod distillery to produce 1,000 gallons of hand sanitizer was a big accomplishment. There’s unfortunately going to…
Jared Kushner is crowdsourcing U.S. coronavirus response on Facebook with help of brother's in-law
And you were worried Donald Trump didn’t have a handle on this. Jared Kushner, having already ended the opioid epidemic and brokered Middle East peace, is now working on the COVID-19 crisis. Saying he’s in over his head would be an understatement. But he’s on it, folks! Don’t worry. Because Facebook isn’t only good for Candy…
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….
Fox News, Google, YouTube, Facebook, and Twitter assist Trump in his effort to destroy the planet.
Get ready for an onslaught of climate disinformation as the 2020 Presidential campaign heats up between Trump and the eventual Democratic nominee. The same bad media actors that helped Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin steal our democracy in 2016 have done little to stem social media disinformation again in 2020 despite their protestations to the…
A telling response from a Facebook Evangelical friend makes Pastor John Pavlovitz words prescient
An evangelical friend on Facebook shocked me. I posted a message about Trump’s latest disaster, Iran. Ultimately she said it was God’s will for him to be president and implied that it is in the Bible’s word. I woke up with that on my mind and recalled an interview I recently did with Pastor John Pavlovitz….
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…
School Millage Whack-A-Mole: Fake Facebook People and Modern Politics
Another election day in Michigan fades from memory and people are either celebrating or trying to figure out what went wrong. In Baldwin, Michigan, dismally low voter turnout sank yet another millage vote for an aging school building with a leaky roof and crumbling infrastructure that would be cheaper to replace than repair. Baldwin Community…
Facebook and the shameful media tradition of enabling Breitbart hate
Here we go again: Facebook just became the latest traditional media player to enable the right-wing hate of Breitbart News. Unveiling its news tab initiative last week, on which Facebook is partnering with outlets such as CNN, The New York Times, and The Wall Street Journal, the company also confirmed that the far-right conspiracy bastion Breitbart…
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…
