Re:Facebook's role in Capitol protest larger than previously...
by afavour on Wednesday January 13, 2021 @08:59PM
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And yet, the top 10 posts on Facebook yesterday:
1. Franklin Graham
2. Dan Bongino
3. Fox News
4. Ben Shapiro
5. Dan Bongino
6. Ben Shapiro
7. Dan Bongino
8. TWICE
9. The New York Times
10. Ben Shapiro
If FB was overwhelmingly left leaning, why are almost all of its most popular posts from right wing outlets?
You’re extrapolating a lot here. Silicon Valley employees support Democrats, therefore any censorship Silicon Valley firms do is at the orders of the Democratic Party? Show the evidence of that.
Ignoring what the (largely powerless) ground level employees of the tech giants do, the chief execs of these companies lobby both Democrats and Republicans. No matter who is in power, money talks. I suspect that’s why even though there’s a huge amount of evidence that folks like Ben Shapiro have violated FB rules for gaming the feed there has been no action taken. FB has spent the last four years courting Republicans, now they’ll court Democrats.
That’s the real problem but it’s certainly easier to pretend it’s a party-specific problem that would solved if only the other people were in charge.
1. Franklin Graham 2. Dan Bongino 3. Fox News 4. Ben Shapiro 5. Dan Bongino 6. Ben Shapiro 7. Dan Bongino 8. TWICE 9. The New York Times 10. Ben Shapiro
Source: https://twitter.com/facebookstop10/status/134939331795225395...
If FB was overwhelmingly left leaning, why are almost all of its most popular posts from right wing outlets?
You’re extrapolating a lot here. Silicon Valley employees support Democrats, therefore any censorship Silicon Valley firms do is at the orders of the Democratic Party? Show the evidence of that.
Ignoring what the (largely powerless) ground level employees of the tech giants do, the chief execs of these companies lobby both Democrats and Republicans. No matter who is in power, money talks. I suspect that’s why even though there’s a huge amount of evidence that folks like Ben Shapiro have violated FB rules for gaming the feed there has been no action taken. FB has spent the last four years courting Republicans, now they’ll court Democrats.
That’s the real problem but it’s certainly easier to pretend it’s a party-specific problem that would solved if only the other people were in charge.