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Most of Facebook's users are international. There is a chance that what is "liberal" in America is simply something that runs counter to the American conservati
by pj_mukh 10y ago
Most of Facebook's users are international. There is a chance that what is "liberal" in America is simply something that runs counter to the American conservatives disciplined beliefs.
Example #1: When a prominent American conservative does something like shutdown the government instead of compromising (remember compromising gets you booted at the next elections see: Paul Ryan). To most of the world (liberal and conservative), this is nuts. Facebook bubbles news reports about how "crazy" this is to the top. American news media will most likely call this a liberal bias when really it's just an international one.
Example #2: If facebook, editorializes a giant Ice-sheet melting and how that is related to anthropogenic global warming (something most International conservatives have accepted), most American conservatives will call that to be liberal bias. Note that this is not about policy decisions, most international conservatives don't agree with Carbon Taxes for instance, but one of just straight facts and assumptions.
- MustardTiger 10y agoYour examples are not what happens though. What happens is promoting stories favorable to democrat politicians, hiding stories favorable to republican politicians, covering up "refugee" crimes, reporting completely made up "evil right wing death squad nazis" doing evil anti-refugee things that never happened, etc, etc.
- vsl 10y ago> covering up "refugee” crimes This. Facebook agreeing to work with German government to do something about “racism” comments in German version (read: FB users talking about Cologne attacks that weren’t covered by mainstream press at all for weeks). FB blocking links to a mainstream respectable media’s article about freedom of speech in Czech version. I have no doubt that FB doesn’t consider it bias. They’re righteous and seeing that attitude all over the supposedly “liberal” sphere is frightening.
- popmystack 10y agoBecause when has hyperbolic stories about immigrants ever gotten out of hand?
- MustardTiger 10y agoI don't know, when? And what exactly is "out of hand", and how out of hand does it need to be before censorship becomes good?
- chris_wot 10y agoIn Australia. You might want to search for "The Children Overboard Affair".
- MustardTiger 10y agoI don't follow. That story got out of hand? In what way? And again, how out of hand does a story need to get to make censorship good?
- chris_wot 10y agoTry looking it up first.
- MustardTiger 10y agoI did. Now please explain what you mean. Acting as though anyone who can not read your mind is some sort of mentally defective reject not worth bothering with is in rather poor taste.
- chris_wot 10y agoI would, but your response is so aggressive I think I'll pass this time.
- welanes 10y agoSure, however the issue is how does this news 'bubble up'? Because the International Facebook community are sharing and commenting on it organically, or because a group of liberal curators decide that's what Facebook users will see in the trending column? As far as I understand, it's not the news that's being promoted (let's display this article on global warming, for example) that's the issue here, it's the news that's being suppressed (this Donald Trump post is getting popular, but I don't like his views so let's not display it).
- wyclif 10y agoIsn't the newsfeed you see on Facebook specific to the country you're from?