Something Only Liberals Were Not Aware Of...Facebook Censors Conservative News - Granite Grok

Something Only Liberals Were Not Aware Of…Facebook Censors Conservative News

Facebook censorshipThere’s nothing surprising about a liberal media platform like Facebook censoring content it opposes. Heck, there’s nothing wrong with Facebook censoring content of any kind, for any reason. Facebook can do whatever it wants. What is surprising is that Gizmodo, a tech-arm of the left-leaning Gawker universe, actually published a story in which former Facebook employees announce to the world that censoring trending news favorable to conservatives was (and probably still is) company policy.

In a piece titled Former Facebook Workers: We routinely Suppressed Conservative News, “Facebook workers routinely suppressed news stories of interest to conservative readers from the social network’s influential “trending” news section, according to a former journalist who worked on the project.”

Even better,

Several former Facebook “news curators,” as they were known internally, also told Gizmodo that they were instructed to artificially “inject” selected stories into the trending news module, even if they weren’t popular enough to warrant inclusion—or in some cases weren’t trending at all. The former curators, all of whom worked as contractors, also said they were directed not to include news about Facebook itself in the trending module.

All perfectly acceptable behavior for a large private company. No different than what daily broadsheets and network news broadcasts–also large private companies, have been doing for decades; cherry picking stories to cover, or not cover, with angles, based on their preferences, personal, political, or otherwise.

None of this was ever at issue, not for me anyway. The issue continues to be that most knuckle-dragging, alphabet-media, MSNBC viewing, Net-Roots Surfing liberals (Democrats, progressives, Marxists, and Fascists) continue to insist that this sort of thing only happens at places that report news and opinion they oppose or to which they object. And to be honest, I’m not sure they’ll be moved at all by the Gizmodo story or what it portends; that liberals have always used their media dominance to control and massage public perception, and it is they who are advocates for censorship.

These are the same folks, the ones most likely to complain about this post for example, who refuse to oppose the tyranny against opposing thought on college campuses. They are people who support political correctness, language guides, campaign speech limitations, cultural appropriation shaming, free speech zones and buffer zones, and the embrace of the phony-concept of hate-speech as a legal term in legislation and everyday life. These are all tools of censorship and oppression.

You are aiding and abetting a modern day McCarthyism that black lists words, topics, ideas, and people who think in ways with which you disagree.

As far as Facebook goes, it should continue to do whatever it wants and suffer whatever, if any, consequence comes from it. I suspect none.

But an increasing number of Democrats, Liberals, and their ideological water-carriers must realize the danger in what they have actively advocated or passively allowed; the institutionalization of mechanisms that currently favor one worldview is speech-control-by-mob and there is no guarantee you will always be on the same side as the mob.

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