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It seems more likely that Facebook, with its noted conservative lean[0], dinged Babylon Bee to avoid repeated embarrassments for President Trump, who quoted fro

• smitty1e 6y ago
  Not sure of anything asserted in your post.
  • pwinnski 6y ago
    I linked to support for the two factual statements I made. The third statement was conjecture, and sure, maybe that's wrong. But given the two factual statements, I think it's a more plausible theory than the one proposed by this article!
    • pawn 6y ago
      > It seems more likely that Facebook, with its noted conservative lean[0], Do you agree with the assertion that not censoring conservatives is the same thing as supporting the right? In my mind, those are two very different things. It used to be the case that most people believed in the statement, “I don’t agree with what you say but I will defend to the death your right to say it.” The article you posted asserts that because conservative posts are popular on Facebook, it must support conservatives. In spite of the fact that it also says FB took down 276 fake accounts that were promoting conservative positions. I didn't see any evidence of FB promoting conservative content, but more likely that conservatives tend to like promoting content through FB. Those are two different things. > dinged Babylon Bee to avoid repeated embarrassments for President Trump, This appears to be the conjecture you mentioned. > who quoted from another Babylon Bee story without realizing it is a satire site[1]. Any evidence that President Trump didn't know it was satire? The dude loves to troll people. Also, the article doesn't try to make a conclusion to the affirmative. It says "Unclear".
• akvadrako 6y ago
  What makes you think Trump didn't know it's satire? It's a pretty popular site with a ridiculous headline. More likely he's trolling.
• mike74921 6y ago
  Maybe Facebook doesn't have a conservative bias. Maybe it has more conservative content because Dems don't advertise on Facebook as much since they have most of the news media. No conservative I know or have heard from feels like Facebook is on their side. Wouldn't they if Facebook was biasing content for the right?
  • true_religion 6y ago
    So I hear this... but it never seems to make sense to me. Conservatives and liberals are in a vaguely 50/50 split population wise, and one would expect them to flock to news sources that cater to them. Liberal news media seems to have more total sources available, however, the conservative sources are larger. For example in TV it's NBC, CBS, PBS, CNN vs Fox. but last month Fox News hit record numbers, and was the most watched primetime network. > No conservative I know or have heard from feels like Facebook is on their side. So as a conservative, I always thought Facebook was a place to read things from my family & sources that I follow directly. I didn't imagine them to have a 'side'. This view of conservative america as some kind of embattled minority is very strange to me. We own the Senate. We own the presidency. We are the majority of the Supreme court. We are not the underdogs.
    • rayiner 6y ago
      > This view of conservative america as some kind of embattled minority is very strange to me. We own the Senate. We own the presidency. We are the majority of the Supreme court. While half the country might be conservative, liberals control key junction points in the whole system. The people can send Republicans to Congress and the Presidency in a landslide, but the laws are ultimately implemented by an unelected bureaucracy, which is overwhelmingly Democrats. (Trump won just 4% of the vote in DC. He won 19% of the vote in New York City, by comparison.) Elected officials communicate with constituents through the media, 90%+ of whom donated to Clinton. Nearly every professor at Harvard identifies as a liberal: https://www.campusreform.org/?ID=14469 https://www.campusreform.org/?ID=14469. And now, there is increasing concern that online platforms are headed in the same direction. That's a big problem, because that gives liberals tremendous control over the means conservatives use to talk to each other. When Twitter can keep people from direct messaging a New York Post article to each other, or lock the account of the duly elected administration, that correctly alarms people.
• leftyted 6y ago
  Facebook does not have a "conservative lean". Facebook's users have a conservative lean. The company itself skews to the left because tech workers under 30 skew to the left. Facebook is in a funny situation where the employees are at odds with the users. Poor Mark Zuckerburg is caught in the middle.
  • shadowgovt 6y ago
    That doesn't actually jive with the Facebookers I know. Relative to other tech companies, the company's rank-and-file leans more center than left.
• SuoDuanDao 6y ago
  The Babylon Bee has clearly eclipsed the Onion as America's most reliable news source.