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> indicating that they probably limited it a lot. That's not the case. The FBI spoke to Zuckerberg prior to the phony laptop story dropping! Facebook thought t

by myko 4y ago

> indicating that they probably limited it a lot. That's not the case. The FBI spoke to Zuckerberg prior to the phony laptop story dropping! Facebook thought the story looked suspicious (because it is) which is why they chose not to amplify it. Please read the article, specifically this comment is illuminating: `He said the FBI did not warn Facebook about the Biden story in particular - only that Facebook thought it "fit that pattern".` Rogan asking the question at all was silly, and Zuck's answer non-committal, because the FBI didn't even bring this story up. Keep in mind, even after all of this–knowing that the story is most likely a political hack job–Facebook didn't ban the article, they just did not amplify it's spread for 1 week.

tekknik 4y ago
> the phony laptop story > the story looked suspicious (because it is) I’d love to hear this side of it. > they chose not to amplify it do you see a problem with this?
- myko 4y ago
  > I’d love to hear this side of it. RudyG finds a laptop of unknown provenance, riddled with likely to be stolen data, claiming to be owned by his boss' chief political rival's failson? The claim Rudy and co make is that the laptop proves Joe Biden corruptly forced Ukraine to fire someone to protect Hunter Biden's interests. It seems phony as hell because we know: 1. That prosecutor Biden lobbied Ukraine to fire was known to be corrupt 2. Biden was executing Obama's foreign policy with respect to pushing Ukraine here, not his own 3. Other members of the international community had a stated policy of removing the same corrupt prosecutor Given all that, Rudy's claims just don't hold up. That's ignoring other things we know, like some emails and other data on the device in question were modified after it came into the possession of the store owner. And the fact that the store owner says that things that have reportedly been found on the laptop don't match things he found on it. > do you see a problem with this? No–I think not promoting a story that is likely to be false should be the default. Why should Facebook promote any story? Especially ones that follow the fake news pattern of disinformation that has become so pervasive in the era of trumpism.
  - tekknik 4y ago
    > No–I think not promoting a story that is likely to be false should be the default. Why should Facebook promote any story? Because facebook isn’t the arbiter of truth. I didn’t read the rest because it’s clearly biased.

by myko 4y ago

tekknik 4y ago

> the phony laptop story > the story looked suspicious (because it is) I’d love to hear this side of it. > they chose not to amplify it do you see a problem with this?

myko 4y ago
> I’d love to hear this side of it. RudyG finds a laptop of unknown provenance, riddled with likely to be stolen data, claiming to be owned by his boss' chief political rival's failson? The claim Rudy and co make is that the laptop proves Joe Biden corruptly forced Ukraine to fire someone to protect Hunter Biden's interests. It seems phony as hell because we know: 1. That prosecutor Biden lobbied Ukraine to fire was known to be corrupt 2. Biden was executing Obama's foreign policy with respect to pushing Ukraine here, not his own 3. Other members of the international community had a stated policy of removing the same corrupt prosecutor Given all that, Rudy's claims just don't hold up. That's ignoring other things we know, like some emails and other data on the device in question were modified after it came into the possession of the store owner. And the fact that the store owner says that things that have reportedly been found on the laptop don't match things he found on it. > do you see a problem with this? No–I think not promoting a story that is likely to be false should be the default. Why should Facebook promote any story? Especially ones that follow the fake news pattern of disinformation that has become so pervasive in the era of trumpism.
- tekknik 4y ago
  > No–I think not promoting a story that is likely to be false should be the default. Why should Facebook promote any story? Because facebook isn’t the arbiter of truth. I didn’t read the rest because it’s clearly biased.