Facebook Commissar Warns Infowars Reporter About Political Posts

[bobbyw24]

Infowars.com reporter Darrin McBreen was instructed by the “Facebook Team” to not voice his political opinion on the popular social networking site.
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“Be careful making about making political statements on facebook,” McBreen was told in an email, “facebook is about building relationships not a platform for your political viewpoint. Don’t antagonize your base. Be careful and congnizat (sic) of what you are preaching.”

Facebook sent the message in relation to a comments posted about “Is living off the Grid now a crime?,” an article about “nuisance abatement teams” intimidating people who have decided to disconnect from the power grid in California.

http://www.infowars.com/facebook-commissar-warns-infowars-reporter-about-political-posts/

[Bern]

Uh... Why is the comment author redacted from the screenshot? Looks like any Facebook user could have left that comment. The image offers no proof the comment came directly from Facebook.

[Agorism]

Think about the Arab spring. That's political stuff as they organize protests.

[Jerkface]

When facebook sends you an email notifying you of any activity going on in a thread or post you're part of, they always sign it as "The Facebook Team", and they always include what was posted in quotations. Whoever wrote this article must be very new to facebook, or just started receiving notifications by email.

In summary, this email is just saying "Hey, such-and-such wrote this in a post you're tagged in. Sincerely, the facebook team"

[Anti Federalist]

Fuck a bunch of facebook.

I would have liked to have seen the article about the bureaucracy harassing off the grid people, though.

No link to that in the original article...

[Dreamofunity]

When facebook sends you an email notifying you of any activity going on in a thread or post you're part of, they always sign it as "The Facebook Team", and they always include what was posted in quotations. Whoever wrote this article must be very new to facebook, or just started receiving notifications by email.

In summary, this email is just saying "Hey, such-and-such wrote this in a post you're tagged in. Sincerely, the facebook team"

This.

This is just hype; inaccurate hype.


Also, The Facebook Team is really bad at spelling/typing. "carefule," "congnizat," "making about making."