British Facebookaphobia

Getting Zucked

YouTube: Keeping It Quiet

Lies of Omission:

YouTube is filtering out stories on the Las Vegas shooting – Here’s why

Could it possibly be because the shooter was LEFTIST?? Maybe even ISLAMIC Leftist?? This is quickly going down the memory hole, isn't it...

Surprise! Facebook Exonerates Itself. (Now With Update).

In the memorandum referenced below, Facebook outlines its procedures and guidelines. It also lists the retro-testing done in order to find any imbalance in political content which is accepted for publication in "trending". The counsel for Facebook says that no imbalance was found.

This quite possibly is the truth. But under normal jurisprudence no defendant would be allowed the final say in the truth of his own subjective claims. Facebook should know, if only intuitively, that objective, disinterested investigation is necessary. That means by outside sources which are not invested in Facebook.

Taken in context of other Facebook activities which seem to breech ethical principles such as privacy, the memorandum seems comprehensive yet not persuasive. And the lack of a disinterested investigation contributes to skepticism.

Facebook Memo to John Thune

The objective truth of the situation will probably never be known for certain.

UPDATE:

Too fat for Facebook: photo banned for depicting body in 'undesirable manner'

Facebook has apologized for wrongly banning a photo of plus-sized model Tess Holliday for violating its ‘health and fitness’ advertising policy

Don't EVEN try to censor Feminists!

Facebook: Artificially Truncated News, Conveniently Pre-Biased To The Left For The Ease Of Your Indoctrination

Of course it is.

Former Facebook Workers: We Routinely Suppressed Conservative News

"Rather, Facebook’s efforts to play the news game reveal the company to be much like the news outlets it is rapidly driving toward irrelevancy: a select group of professionals with vaguely center-left sensibilities. It just happens to be one that poses as a neutral reflection of the vox populi, has the power to influence what billions of users see, and openly discusses whether it should use that power to influence presidential elections.

“It wasn’t trending news at all,” said the former curator who logged conservative news omissions. “It was an opinion.”"

If you get your news from a single source, then it's not news; it's propaganda. With the web available everywhere, there's no excuse for using just one source, unless you just don't care enough to know what's real and true.

I dropped Facebook after about 6 months. They are intent on spying and manipulating rather than providing a useful but benign product.