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I think this comes down to the fact that removing lies and fake news hurts Republicans at this point in time. If in the future the Democrats are the lying ones

I think this comes down to the fact that removing lies and fake news hurts Republicans at this point in time. If in the future the Democrats are the lying ones, then those lies deserve to be removed too.

jedmeyers 6y ago
How do you know who is actually lying if half the information is removed from the sources you usually read?
- ardy42 6y ago
  > How do you know who is actually lying if half the information is removed from the sources that you usually read? As far as I know, they're not broadly removing "half the information" (which I'm taking to refer to conservative viewpoints), but disinformation related to QAnon, voting, covid, etc. Disinformation is not something that will help anyone make better judgements. https://apnews.com/article/election-2020-media-social-media-elections-mark-zuckerberg-14e8073ce6f7bd2a674c99ac7bbfc240 https://apnews.com/article/election-2020-media-social-media-... https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-54443878 https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-54443878 https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2020/08/11/facebook-covid-misinformation-takedowns/ https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2020/08/11/faceboo... https://www.cnet.com/news/facebook-twitter-block-trump-post-for-spreading-covid-19-misinformation/ https://www.cnet.com/news/facebook-twitter-block-trump-post-... https://www.reuters.com/article/us-facebook-election-exclusive-idUSKCN1MP2G9 https://www.reuters.com/article/us-facebook-election-exclusi... https://www.theglobeandmail.com/world/us-politics/article-facebook-bans-us-ads-that-call-voting-fraud-widespread-or-election/ https://www.theglobeandmail.com/world/us-politics/article-fa...
ojnabieoot 6y ago
This tidbit from a WSJ story is rather revealing of the actual issue going on here[1]: > In late 2017, when Facebook tweaked its newsfeed algorithm to minimize the presence of political news, policy executives were concerned about the outsize impact of the changes on the right, including the Daily Wire, people familiar with the matter said. Engineers redesigned their intended changes so that left-leaning sites like Mother Jones were affected more than previously planned, the people said. Mr. Zuckerberg approved the plans. That is: Facebook decided to intervene to benefit the right. I don't think this is just because of right-wingers at Facebook: surely a large part of it is bad-faith attacks from people like Ted Cruz. The idea that Twitter and Facebook are conspiring to suppress legitimate criticism of Biden and thereby defeat Trump is plain ridiculous. [1] Story is here: https://t.co/sjOYrLQdc3?amp=1 https://t.co/sjOYrLQdc3?amp=1 but I got the blurb from this tweet: https://twitter.com/patcaldwell/status/1317140564169625600 https://twitter.com/patcaldwell/status/1317140564169625600

jedmeyers 6y ago

How do you know who is actually lying if half the information is removed from the sources you usually read?

ardy42 6y ago
> How do you know who is actually lying if half the information is removed from the sources that you usually read? As far as I know, they're not broadly removing "half the information" (which I'm taking to refer to conservative viewpoints), but disinformation related to QAnon, voting, covid, etc. Disinformation is not something that will help anyone make better judgements. https://apnews.com/article/election-2020-media-social-media-elections-mark-zuckerberg-14e8073ce6f7bd2a674c99ac7bbfc240 https://apnews.com/article/election-2020-media-social-media-... https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-54443878 https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-54443878 https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2020/08/11/facebook-covid-misinformation-takedowns/ https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2020/08/11/faceboo... https://www.cnet.com/news/facebook-twitter-block-trump-post-for-spreading-covid-19-misinformation/ https://www.cnet.com/news/facebook-twitter-block-trump-post-... https://www.reuters.com/article/us-facebook-election-exclusive-idUSKCN1MP2G9 https://www.reuters.com/article/us-facebook-election-exclusi... https://www.theglobeandmail.com/world/us-politics/article-facebook-bans-us-ads-that-call-voting-fraud-widespread-or-election/ https://www.theglobeandmail.com/world/us-politics/article-fa...

ojnabieoot 6y ago

This tidbit from a WSJ story is rather revealing of the actual issue going on here[1]: > In late 2017, when Facebook tweaked its newsfeed algorithm to minimize the presence of political news, policy executives were concerned about the outsize impact of the changes on the right, including the Daily Wire, people familiar with the matter said. Engineers redesigned their intended changes so that left-leaning sites like Mother Jones were affected more than previously planned, the people said. Mr. Zuckerberg approved the plans. That is: Facebook decided to intervene to benefit the right. I don't think this is just because of right-wingers at Facebook: surely a large part of it is bad-faith attacks from people like Ted Cruz. The idea that Twitter and Facebook are conspiring to suppress legitimate criticism of Biden and thereby defeat Trump is plain ridiculous. [1] Story is here: https://t.co/sjOYrLQdc3?amp=1 https://t.co/sjOYrLQdc3?amp=1 but I got the blurb from this tweet: https://twitter.com/patcaldwell/status/1317140564169625600 https://twitter.com/patcaldwell/status/1317140564169625600