Third-party fact-checkers have the ability to cause pages on Facebook to be suppressed. These fact-checkers, who are paid by Facebook, are putting efforts into fact-checking satire and editorial cartoons. In other words — opinion.
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March 31, 2020
Facebook is committing 100 million dollars toward local journalism hit hard in the midst of the coronavirus pandemic.
Facebook has reportedly already invested $300 million in local news companies, but following recent events, Facebook…
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March 27, 2020
Is it "hate speech" when liberals call for people to commit suicide?
Occupy Democrats, a very popular liberal Facebook page with more than 8.6 million followers, posted a screencap of a tweet on March 26 that wished for the…
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March 25, 2020
Facebook is now aiding religious groups with a new initiative for “[k]eeping your faith community connected through the COVID-19 outbreak.”
The site launched its “Faith on Facebook Resource Hub” to help religious…
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March 23, 2020
Facebook currently relies on nine fact-checking organizations in the United States to help the platform “reduce” and “remove” problematic content. However, many of the people the company has put in charge of suppressing…
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March 19, 2020
Good news: Big Tech’s bots have not completely replaced tech workers yet. Bad news: The Big Tech bots were unprepared for the coronavirus pandemic.
Big Tech companies are struggling to properly moderate their platforms during this…
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March 10, 2020
Facebook labeled a video shared by President Donald Trump of former VP Joe Biden stammering as “partly false information” after the Joe Biden campaign and liberal media condemned the platform.
Former Vice President Biden was…
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March 9, 2020
Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton blasted Facebook for enabling disinformation while using the mainstream liberal media to misinform viewers.
Clinton condemned Facebook, claiming the platform “aided and abetted…
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March 9, 2020
An embarrassing clip of Democratic presidential front-runner Joe Biden stammering during a speech has been spun by liberal media as “manipulated media.”
Former Vice President Biden was caught on video seemingly endorsing…
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March 6, 2020
A liberal journalist blasted Facebook until it removed certain Trump campaign ads as the 2020 Census approaches.
Founding Editor-in-Chief of the now defunct outlet Think Progress Judd Legum scorched Facebook for “running more than 1…
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March 3, 2020
Facebook covers posts and news stories that have been fact-checked and found false. While this policy has affected conservative media outlets, it hasn’t appeared to affect the liberal media as much.
Until now.
A Politico…
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February 25, 2020
The First Amendment covers freedom of speech and freedom of religion. But what if someone’s religion does not allow homosexuality?
Facebook apparently deems that kind of speech to be “hate speech.” When the founder of…
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February 19, 2020
Facebook’s plans for regulating Big Tech have not met the expectations of some bigwigs in EU leadership.
Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg toured Brussels earlier this week, meeting with press and politicians and also publishing a white…
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February 19, 2020
Facebook is finding some forms of government regulation to be too much for the company, even as CEO Mark Zuckerberg calls for more of it.
Facebook has been "legally compelled," according to Bloomberg News, by the government of…
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February 17, 2020
Instagram announced in May of 2019 that it would be fact-checking and “reducing distribution” for what it considered to be “disinformation.” Since then, it seems to be targeting pro-life content.
Brazilian third-…
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February 13, 2020
How dangerous is a single tech-savvy conservative? Enough to politically divide Silicon Valley itself and get a CEO to rant about the future of “democracy.”
Digital Content Next CEO Jason Kint, in an article-filled tweetstorm…
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February 13, 2020
Michael Bloomberg, who’s willing to spend $2 billion to beat President Donald Trump and spent more than $350 million plastering airwaves with his ads, is now paying people to plaster your Instagram accounts with terrible memes.
The…
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February 13, 2020
Major social media platforms are removing Iranian disinformation and coordinated behavior from their platforms. But Republicans don’t think that’s enough.
Four Republican senators wrote a letter to Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey on…
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February 10, 2020
President Donald Trump tweeted an edited video that showed Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi repeatedly tearing up the State of the Union speech, with other clips of the president’s successes pieced in the video.
Democrats were…
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February 6, 2020
Will Facebook’s new oversight board be the platform to ensure free speech or a Big Tech kangaroo court?
The site’s in-house newsroom posted a developer blog on Jan. 28 which announced the platform’s upcoming oversight…
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