Former Facebook Workers: We Routinely Suppressed Conservative News

[UK2K]

We all knew it was happening, finally someone admitted it. If you want to be biased and pretend you're Hitler, that's fine, I just ask you stop telling the world you're all about freedom of thought and that you welcome all opinions.

http://gizmodo.com/former-facebook-workers-we-routinely-suppressed-conser-1775461006

[QUOTE]Facebook workers routinely suppressed news stories of interest to conservative readers from the social network

[falc39]

Age of censorship :facepalm

At least there are still people out there with a concience and are willing to become whistle-blowers.

[UK2K]

Age of censorship :facepalm

At least there are still people out there with a concience and are willing to become whistle-blowers.
I also read that BLM wasn't trending, cause nobody gave a shit, and they were instructed to change the algorithm so that it would display as trending, as if someone cared.

[fiddy]

Age of censorship :facepalm

At least there are still people out there with a concience and are willing to become whistle-blowers.
The sadder part is the the general public is way too distracted with bullshit to actually care about their rights and privacy.

[bdreason]

Facebook is just an advertising/media company... just like any other advertising/media company. Their goal is to increase traffic, by any means (legally) necessary.

It's important that you always question your information sources, and when possible, get your information from multiple sources. I haven't used Facebook in years, and never used it as an information source.

[9erempiree]

Just quit FB already.

Don't know why people are still on it. This zucker guy is no good.

[Steven Kerry]

Doing what is best for society :applause:

[TheMan]

I'm a lib and I detest FB

[hateraid]

I'm a lib and I detest FB
DW, is that you?

[UK2K]

The sadder part is the the general public is way too distracted with bullshit to actually care about their rights and privacy.
As with many cases, when there is no censorship, conservative views win out. Back in the day when all the new channels were going, then along came Fox and boom! #1 news channel.

Conservative topics were trending, and leftist ideas like BLM were not, and that wasn't gonna happen in Zuk's book.

[nathanjizzle]

I like it. cry about it cuckservatives. :lol

[UK2K]

I like it. cry about it cuckservatives. :lol
Cry about what?

[longtime lurker]

We all knew it was happening, finally someone admitted it. If you want to be biased and pretend you're Hitler, that's fine, I just ask you stop telling the world you're all about freedom of thought and that you welcome all opinions.

http://gizmodo.com/former-facebook-workers-we-routinely-suppressed-conser-1775461006

Exaggerate much? I bet you're the same type of guy to compare Obama care to slavery or BLM to the KKK

[UK2K]

Exaggerate much? I bet you're the same type of guy to compare Obama care to slavery or BLM to the KKK

You didn't know it was happening?

Welcome to the real world, my friend.

[stalkerforlife]

Even this website censors opinions.

We live in a sad world.

[longtime lurker]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YOpE8001FHk

[UK2K]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YOpE8001FHk

[QUOTE]After Ms. Merkel asked Mr. Zuckerberg about offensive posts on the refugee crisis, the Facebook CEO said

[Patrick Chewing]

Even this website censors opinions.

We live in a sad world.


Only the anti-semitic ones. There is no place for that here.

[Dresta]

Exaggerate much? I bet you're the same type of guy to compare Obama care to slavery or BLM to the KKK
Aren't you one of those guys who compares Trump to Hitler and Trump (or even just all Republicans) supporters to Klansmen?

Talk about exaggerated comparisons :oldlol:


This is just another example of the mass-indoctrination going on in America, the desperate attempt to portray quite widely held views as if they were fringe views, so to encourage all the sheep that only dumb dumbs (or bigots) hold them. Typical appeal to crowd-mentality and peer-pressure (and strength in numbers).

[Sarcastic]

They are a private company. They have the right to suppress anything they want. If you don't like it, you have the right to not use their product.

[UK2K]

They are a private company. They have the right to suppress anything they want. If you don't like it, you have the right to not use their product.
:facepalm

Barring that, nobody cares if you do it, just don't tell everyone you don't. Don't pretend to be a bastion of free speech and safe haven where differing opinions can be heard. Don't tell people that, cause it's simply not true.

Why lie about it? You want the business of the people you wish to censor, but don't want them to have full access? That's odd.

[Dresta]

They are a private company. They have the right to suppress anything they want. If you don't like it, you have the right to not use their product.
Thanks for telling everyone something they already know. That wasn't the point at all. No-one was saying what facebook was doing was illegal.

[rezznor]

We all knew it was happening, finally someone admitted it. If you want to be biased and pretend you're Hitler, that's fine, I just ask you stop telling the world you're all about freedom of thought and that you welcome all opinions.

http://gizmodo.com/former-facebook-workers-we-routinely-suppressed-conser-1775461006
so it's ok when "fair and balanced" fox news does this? hell, even msnbc or cnn?

[UK2K]

so it's ok when "fair and balanced" fox news does this? hell, even msnbc or cnn?


By giving people the power to share, we're making the world more transparent.


The thing that we are trying to do at facebook, is just help people connect and communicate more efficiently.


Facebook was not originally created to be a company. It was built to accomplish a social mission - to make the world more open and connected.


Given the article I posted, would you say those statements are true or false?

[rezznor]

Given the article I posted, would you say those statements are true or false?
I believe that as much as I believe fox news is fair and balanced. I have no love for fb, it sucks just as much as fox news.

[UK2K]

I believe that as much as I believe fox news is fair and balanced. I have no love for fb, it sucks just as much as fox news.

See, I never said you can't be biased. It's his company, he can do as he sees fit (to an extent, because they are still a publicly traded company).

All I ask is you not pretend to be 'one love' and 'every voice matters' when clearly, that's not the case. He's not making the world more transparent any more than Obama's presidency was the most transparent presidency in history (some people actually fell for that lol).

Just don't lie.

Fox doesn't have a 'trending topics' section filtered out to include social justice topics that nobody cares about. Fox also doesn't have a 'if you don't post pro-Republican your shit will be deleted or removed' section either. In fact, Fox has gone after Trump harder than any left leaning website, so yeah, I'd say that's pretty fair.

[KyrieTheFuture]

I'll just say to you what you seem to love to say. If you don't like it, go build your own social network and post whatever news you want.

[NumberSix]

I'll just say to you what you seem to love to say. If you don't like it, go build your own social network and post whatever news you want.
It is a private company. They can do whatever they want. Facebook has as much right to lean left as Fox News has to lean right. Fair play.

I do find it comical though that people needed to be told that Facebook and Twitter are heavily to the the and actively promote left wing issues. Like, duh. Like when people made a big deal that the supposed "Fox News mole" revealed that fox pushes a right wing narrative. As if this was some giant revelation. Yeah, of course they do. Obviously.

[Draz]

They are a private company. They have the right to suppress anything they want. If you don't like it, you have the right to not use their product.
That was my initial thought then I remembered people have stocks and own part of the business

[UK2K]

I'll just say to you what you seem to love to say. If you don't like it, go build your own social network and post whatever news you want.

Solid input. I feel like nobody is really arguing they can't do what they did. Actually, I know nobody is arguing that. So, well thought out statement.

Any opinion on parading yourself, and your company, as a bastion of free thought while simultaneously doing the opposite?

[KyrieTheFuture]

Solid input. I feel like nobody is really arguing they can't do what they did. Actually, I know nobody is arguing that. So, well thought out statement.

Any opinion on parading yourself, and your company, as a bastion of free thought while simultaneously doing the opposite?
Seems pretty par for the course. Everyone does the opposite of what they preach. Facebook censors shit, conservatives blow dudes in bathrooms or cheat on wives. Anti racism champions are generally the most racist as you've pointed out numerous times before.

I also don't use Twitter or Facebook so I'm probably a bad person to ask.

[~primetime~]

Didn't even know people used FB as a news source...thought it was just used to continue high school on the internet and so that your great aunt who lives out in BFE can see pics of you.

[longtime lurker]

But it wasn't coming from the top.. :rolleyes:

Did you even watch the link I posted. They do a good job of going into details, the issue is more nuanced than you you're making it out to be. It's individuals within Facebook that control news feeds and what's trending. Sometimes they have good reason to (perfect is example is that I wouldn't post any of the garbage that Breibart publishes without multiple independent sources backing it up). Then you post an example that actually has nothing to do with the topic at hand. :facepalm


Aren't you one of those guys who compares Trump to Hitler and Trump (or even just all Republicans) supporters to Klansmen?

No

[falc39]

Did you even watch the link I posted. They do a good job of going into details, the issue is more nuanced than you you're making it out to be. It's individuals within Facebook that control news feeds and what's trending. Sometimes they have good reason to (perfect is example is that I wouldn't post any of the garbage that Breibart publishes without multiple independent sources backing it up). Then you post an example that actually has nothing to do with the topic at hand. :facepalm



No

The problem is that these curators were clearly biased one way and circumventing what everyone thought would be a process largely determined by algoriithims. How as a user can I trust they will verify independent sources for liberal topics the same way they filtered conservative topics? There is also no excuse for inserting topics that weren't trending and to label it as trending.

[nightprowler10]

Didn't even know people used FB as a news source...thought it was just used to continue high school on the internet and so that your great aunt who lives out in BFE can see pics of you.
This. Who goes to FB for news?

[UK2K]

Did you even watch the link I posted. They do a good job of going into details, the issue is more nuanced than you you're making it out to be. It's individuals within Facebook that control news feeds and what's trending. Sometimes they have good reason to (perfect is example is that I wouldn't post any of the garbage that Breibart publishes without multiple independent sources backing it up). Then you post an example that actually has nothing to do with the topic at hand. :facepalm



No
I did.

That's what my 'didn't come from the top' sarcastic post came from.

Zuk was caught on mic telling Merkel he'd take care of the online discontent for Muslim immigrants.

Oops.