Facebook to Fact Check News Using Left Wing Sources

[Smaulgld]

In an Orwellian move that many media experts suspect is nothing more than an attempt to silence opposing views and competitive media outlets, Facebook announced that it will enlist the aid of several main stream media outlets and a to help it fact check articles.

http://fakenews.news/2016/12/16/facebook-fact-check-fake-news/

[seapilot]

Russians russians russians! Do not look over here, as Chinese style censorship takes over at Fakebook. The real threat is the one that the media is distracting the public from noticing.

[phill4paul]

Russians russians russians! Do not look over here, as Chinese style censorship takes over at Fakebook. The real threat is the one that the media is distracting the public from noticing.

Title should have read... Fakebook to Fuck Check News Using Left Wing Sources.

[Smaulgld]

Russians russians russians! Do not look over here, as Chinese style censorship takes over at Fakebook. The real threat is the one that the media is distracting the public from noticing.
notice its only the main stream media and democrats that are concerned?

[Anti Federalist]

Fraudbook.

Never used it, never will.

[AZJoe]

At FraudBook, share information and speak your mind unless we decide to black it out.
At Fraudbook, we do the thinking for you and determine what you are allowed to know and block anything you are not allowed to know as determined by the MSM/CIAStreamMedia.

http://drrichswier.com/wp-content/uploads/fraudbook.jpg

[enhanced_deficit]

Fakebook is getting serious about providing real news?
Even MSM is not that ambitious.

[AZJoe]

The Facebook silence brigade begins. Stephen Lendman,the very insightful prolific writer on Washington's foreign activities just posted this today:

Note: my truth-telling is endangered by Facebook calling it fake news to censor me!

https://www.facebook.com/stephen.lendman.7?hc_ref=NEWSFEED&fref=nf

[AZJoe]

Lo and Behold: George Soros Is Funding Facebook's "Third-Party Fact Checking" Organization Targeting "Fake News"

http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2016-12-16/george-soros-funding-facebooks-third-party-fact-checking-organization

http://nteb-mudflowermedia.netdna-ssl.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/12/facebook-censorship-fake-news-george-soros-poynter-international-fact-checking-institute-298x186.jpg

[AZJoe]

FaceBook Decides to Censor RT Inauguration Coverage
http://theduran.com/facebook-censors-rt-information-war-begun/

"RT confirmed that a Facebook ‘bot’ sent RT’s Facebook page admins a message saying that they will not be allowed to post, “photos, video or shared content”. This essentially takes RT ‘off air’ for Facebook users. The ban is set to expire Saturday morning, Moscow time, the day after Donald Trump’s inauguration.

The intention is clear, Facebook does not want RT to report on the run-up to the inauguration, nor do they want RT’s 4 million+ Facebook followers to have easy access to RT’s inauguration coverage. …

one of the most popular alternative media sources in the world has been censored from the world’s most popular social media platform. … What they’re truly upset about is that a media organisation with growing popularity has an editorial policy which differs from that of fake news outlets like CNN, whose editorial policy has earned it the name ‘The Clinton News Network’. …

I suspect that like most anti-RT measures – from a state-owned British bank shutting down RT’s accounts, to the US intelligence agencies slandering RT, and Facebook censoring RT – will ultimately backfire. It will only increase RT’s profile and viewership. Most crucially it will awaken many people who will begin to ‘question more’.

In the meantime, I sincerely encourage you to go directly to RT at https://www.rt.com/. and/or download their mobile app. ...

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https://i.imgflip.com/1a5qaz.jpg

[AZJoe]

Facebook's Peculiarly Selective Censorship standards:

https://hw.infowars.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/03/240317post.jpg

Facebook Community standards:
Facebook removes hate speech, which includes content that directly attacks people based on their:


Race,
Ethnicity,
National origin,
Religious affiliation,
Sexual orientation,
Sex, gender, or gender identity, or
Serious disabilities or diseases.

https://www.facebook.com/communitystandards#hate-speech

Meanwhile, posts by Christians that simply state bible passages in discussions about homosexuality are being removed (http://www.christianpost.com/news/facebook-suspends-christian-homeschool-moms-account-over-posts-citing-bible-on-homosexuality-175521/), ...
https://www.infowars.com/hunt-kill-all-white-women-facebook-post-deemed-not-hate-speech/

FaceBook Thought Control Censors Liberty Hangout (http://libertyhangout.org/2017/05/facebook-censors-anti-communist-stalin-memes/) for Meme criticizing communism.

Meme:
https://i0.wp.com/libertyhangout.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/stalinmeme.jpg?resize=768%2C670


FaceBook Thought Control response:
https://i0.wp.com/libertyhangout.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/stalinmeme2.png?resize=768%2C405

Facebook also previously blocked Liberty Memes (http://libertyhangout.org/2016/07/save-liberty-memes-facebook-threatens-to-shut-down-popular-libertarian-page/) over this meme:
https://i1.wp.com/libertyhangout.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/07/13615320_10210071220601804_6438609073325538126_n.j pg?resize=300%2C297

FaceBook was so confident to standby their decision they also took down the posting of FB's removal notice:
https://scontent-lax3-2.xx.fbcdn.net/v/t1.0-0/p280x280/13567200_994626547325297_4012782977139907996_n.jpg ?oh=35773c2cf4dde3b9620ac7a553242c2f&oe=5980DCFE


FaceBook also deleted Being Libertarian for the following Meme:
https://i1.wp.com/libertyhangout.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/07/Screen-Shot-2016-07-16-at-4.16.42-PM.png?w=714

https://i2.wp.com/libertyhangout.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/07/Screen-Shot-2016-07-16-at-7.43.27-PM.png?w=752


OF course in all of FB's gloriously high "community standards" FB expressly found the following as meeting their double standards:
https://a.disquscdn.com/uploads/mediaembed/images/3915/8275/original.jpg?w=800&h

Eric July speaks out on FaceBook unpublishing their page:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yDKdrzxwLOs

[AZJoe]

FaceBook Censors Caitlin Johnstone for Sharing Link to Article About Documented False Flag Operations (https://medium.com/@caityjohnstone/ive-been-banned-from-facebook-for-sharing-an-article-about-false-flags-678c24358fde)

The article I got the banhammer for sharing is titled For Those Who Don’t ‘Believe’ In ‘Conspiracies’ Here Are 58 Admitted False Flag Attacks (http://educateinspirechange.org/alternative-news/dont-believe-conspiracies-58-admitted-false-flag-attacks/). According to the site’s ticker it has 50,667 shares as of this writing. It’s laden with hyperlinks for further reading, and lists only instances of false flag operations that insiders are on the record as having admitted to themselves. It’s a good compilation of important information. People should be allowed to share it. …

The notifications say I can be permanently banned if I continue posting that sort of material. I’ve had that account since 2007. …

When there’s no meaningful space between corporate power and government power, it doesn’t make much difference whether the guy silencing your dissent is Mark Zuckerberg or Jeff Sessions. America most definitely has such a system (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5tu32CCA_Ig). …

In a recent Senate Judiciary Committee hearing, plutocrat-sponsored senators spoke with top legal and security officials (https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2017/11/01/goog-n01.html) for Facebook, Twitter and Google in a very disturbing way about the need to silence dissenting voices.

Democratic Senator Mazie Hirono of Hawaii demanded that the companies adopt a “mission statement” declaring their commitment “to prevent the fomenting of discord.”

A former FBI agent Clint Watts kicked it up even further, saying, “Civil wars don’t start with gunshots, they start with words. America’s war with itself has already begun. We all must act now on the social media battlefield to quell information rebellions that can quickly lead to violent confrontations and easily transform us into the Divided States of America.” “Stopping the false information artillery barrage landing on social media users comes only when those outlets distributing bogus stories are silenced — silence the guns and the barrage will end,” he added.

This was on the Senate floor. Officials were speaking about the need to censor social media …

That such a statement could be made in a congressional hearing, entirely without objection, is an expression of the terminal decay of American democracy. There is no faction of the ruling class that maintains any commitment to basic democratic rights.
None of the Democrats in the committee raised any of the constitutional issues involved in asking massive technology companies to censor political speech on the Internet. Only one Republican raised concerns over censorship, but only to allege that Google had a liberal bias. …

Remember, in the book “Fahrenheit 451” the public wasn’t unhappy about the book burnings. They cheered them on, and that’s what we have now. The herd is mindlessly clapping their approval at censorship and even volunteering to report naughty behavior like good little hall monitors for the oligarchy. …

[euphemia]

People should know better than to think of FB as a serious source for anything except piles and piles of nonsense.

[AZJoe]

People should know better than to think of FB as a serious source for anything except piles and piles of nonsense.

So FaceBook is filled with nonsense, and therefore FaceBook's politically pressured censorship on dissenting or "fake news" is fine?
When Senators, who have the power to regulate a company into oblivion, drag social media executives to capital hill to browbeat them over postings and commentary speech they label as "discord", and demand they implement "voluntary" codes of conduct banning "fake" news or dissenting speech, that is simply politically outsourced censorship.

[PierzStyx]

Terrible. Of course it would be no better if they used "right wing" sources. Then we would get articles with titles like, "FACEBOOK WANTS ENDLESS WAR" or some such.

Left v. Right divide is the lie that keeps on giving.

[euphemia]

So FaceBook is filled with nonsense, and therefore FaceBook's politically pressured censorship on dissenting or "fake news" is fine?
When Senators, who have the power to regulate a company into oblivion, drag social media executives to capital hill to browbeat them over postings and commentary speech they label as "discord", and demand they implement "voluntary" codes of conduct banning "fake" news or dissenting speech, that is simply politically outsourced censorship.

FB started as a way for college kids with way too much time on their hands another platform to parade their immaturity. Now the owner wants to make it the center of the universe, and to some people, it is. I've been on practically since it started and I stay very locked down there. I'm only there for a couple of groups and pictures of the grandchildren.

If you want a totally open platform, start one.

[AZJoe]

Glenn Greenwald has an excellent story at Intercept on Facebook's Partnership for Censorship (https://theintercept.com/2017/12/30/facebook-says-it-is-deleting-accounts-at-the-direction-of-the-u-s-and-israeli-governments/) with the US and Israel Governments

[Raginfridus]

People should know better than to think of FB as a serious source for anything except piles and piles of nonsense.https://encrypted-tbn0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcSFmCm6bRgfya6RO4OOFHdTRnNaZM5-85umjtl4YmwruJDpSHOAgQ