Facebook’s Political Unit Enables Propaganda

Re:Facebook’s Political Unit Enables Propaganda by Steeeve on Thursday December 21, 2017 @04:42PM (#15983060)

I wouldn't put them on a pedestal. And to think that MSNBC airs any kind of content that is non-partisan is a joke.

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Re:Facebook’s Political Unit Enables Propaganda by favorited on Friday December 22, 2017 @11:20AM (#15988528)

There are Republicans with shows on MSBBC. Nicolle Wallace has an hour each afternoon – she was Bush's comms director & and worked for McCain's presidential campaign. Joe Scarborough was a Republican member of congress, and he gets 3 hours of MSNBC air per day.

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Re:Facebook’s Political Unit Enables Propaganda by threeseed on Thursday December 21, 2017 @05:59PM (#15983676)

I never said MSNBC wasn't partisan.

But Fox News literally coordinates with the Trump team and he lavishes them personally with praise via Twitter almost every week. It's far more akin to campaign outreach rather than independent news. This never happened with Obama or the DNC.

MSNBC also does have independent journalists e.g. Chuck Todd and right-wing commentators e.g. Hugh Hewitt, Joe Scarborough etc. So it's not entirely liberal.

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Re:Facebook’s Political Unit Enables Propaganda by akkat on Thursday December 21, 2017 @11:18PM (#15985243)

> This never happened when Obama or the DNC

Except of course when CNN gave the debate questions to Hillary in advance. https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-fix/wp/2016/11/07/do...

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