News for hackers. Stuff that matters.

A comment on Facebook's role in Capitol protest larger than previously thought. Parent comment

Re:Facebook's role in Capitol protest larger than previously... by 1helloworld1 on Wednesday January 13, 2021 @08:39PM (#25770679)
"The Democrats have the power now and they will use it to suppress any opinion they disagree with" - that's quite a leap. Isn't it Trump and the republicans who want to repel Section 230 so that all websites are forced to moderate content? Let's not forget foxnews - the most watched cable news in the United States. It has been spewing republican propaganda since 1996, and will continue to do so in the foreseeable future.
[ Parent | on HN ]
Re:Facebook's role in Capitol protest larger than previously... by majormajor on Wednesday January 13, 2021 @08:41PM (#25770688)
Democrats want to repeal Section 230 for the opposite reason as the Republicans, e.g. https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/01/17/opinion/joe-b... where Biden directly calls for this.

Not that that helps the original poster's point. The Democrats have been mad at FB and Twitter for much longer than the Republicans have!

[ Parent | on HN ]
Re:Facebook's role in Capitol protest larger than previously... by briantakita on Wednesday January 13, 2021 @08:49PM (#25770766)
The thing is the websites are not moderate fairly thus editorial decisions are made. "Hang Mike Pence" is allowed to trend on Twitter but "1984" is not allowed to tend on Twitter. Facebook & Twitter stream violent acts & allow violent rhetoric from certain political groups but not others.

Fox News has been moving left & was the first network to call Arizona for Biden very early as a suppression tactic. Conservatives are moving to Newsmax, OAN, & independent journalist outfits.

[ Parent | on HN ]
Re:Facebook's role in Capitol protest larger than previously... by majormajor on Wednesday January 13, 2021 @09:06PM (#25770913)
> Fox News has been moving left & was the first network to call Arizona for Biden very early as a suppression tactic.

This is nonsensical. How is a call after after voting has ended a "suppression tactic"?

The talking point you're probably looking for is "polls were skewed intentionally as a suppression tactic" but even that's not so compelling given 2012's miss in most of the late polling in favor of Romney.

[ Parent | on HN ]
Re:Facebook's role in Capitol protest larger than previously... by briantakita on Tuesday January 19, 2021 @10:33PM (#25842308)
> How is a call after after voting has ended a "suppression tactic"?

The call was before voting had ended. Does it make sense to you now?

> The talking point you're probably looking for is "polls were skewed intentionally as a suppression tactic"

Given widespread distrust of pollsters, I'm not sure effective polls are at suppression. Biased polling are effective at propping up certain media narratives.

[ Parent | on HN ]
Re:Facebook's role in Capitol protest larger than previously... by dragonwriter on Tuesday January 19, 2021 @10:54PM (#25842409)
> The call was before voting had ended

No, it wasn’t. AZ polls closed at 7pm local time, Fox’s call was ~11:20pm EDT, which is 20 minutes after any polling locations in the Navajo Nation (which uses daylight time) closed, and 80 minutes after those in the rest of the state closed.

[ Parent | on HN ]