The GraniteGrok.com Facebook page has been kicking some backside this month despite being muted. We’ve reached nearly 740,000 people in the past four weeks. But there’s an election in a few days, so Facebook just throttled me and the page (again, more).
Facebook’s blacklisting campaign against us began over a year ago, during the New Hampshire Presidential Primary. Just days before, actually. We have been repeatedly restricted, quite often (and this is the amusing part) for reasons their fact-checkers invented.
Candace Owens has stepped up and taken one for the team. Well, not the team. Social media’s so-called independent fact-checkers are none of the above. They create facts you never asserted and even fact-check your opinion. Owens has had enough; she’s suing.
This is an ongoing problem with Facebook that they won’t acknowledge by actually DOING something. Oh, they’ll issue a non-apology apology. Say it was a mistake or that an “algorithm” screwed things up. Except that the vast majority of mistakes and the screwups involve conservatives taking it in the shorts.
Facebook’s independent fact-checkers are not just biased; they are sinister. Last February, they created a fact we never asserted and called our content false as a result. Facebook does not fact-check its fact-checkers, so wouldn’t you know, they’ve done it again.
Big Tech’s commitment to promoting ChiCom propaganda is marveled only by Corporate media. This also works in reverse. Facebook, for example, is using its obviously partisan fact-checking process to remove articles suggesting COVID-19 escaped from a Chinese Lab.
Facebook owns the social media landscape. Not playing in their sandbox is a tough sell. GraniteGrok has seen a significant rise in traffic and engagement. From 30-50% of our traffic starts on Facebook. And traffic is way up. Could it be better? Probably. Are we subject to tactics meant to limit access to our content? Probably. But no … Read more
Maybe you’ve heard the story. Back in 2018, when we rebuilt the site (it was old and vulnerable), I insisted on the tag line in our header. ‘Dominating the Political Bandwidth in New Hampshire.’ You gotta have goals, and Skip relented, and I was right to insist.
And unlike a government agency, the private owner is obliged by self-preservation to try to avoid losses, which means that he is forced to run his railroad economically and efficiently. And also unlike a government agency, the private capitalist is nearly always obliged to face competition – which means to make the services he provides or the … Read more
Seventeen paragraphs into a story about COVID-19, the New York Times admits something you’ve all known for years. Deaths from COVID-19 reported during the pandemic™ were overcounted. No kidding? Really?
More than a few folks will want to take a victory lap. The Left’s Paper of Record, the New York Times, has published an extensive report on SARS-CoV2 in which they explain how it was a byproduct of bio-engineering research at the Wuhan Lab in China.
If you have any sort of online footprint, you get a lot of garbage emails. If you run a popular blog, you get about ten times the amount of garbage email. You also get a separate mountain of great emails, so you have to sift through them for the good stuff. Imagine my surprise when … Read more
Yep, more links coming and it’s all the fault of the Left. You know, they called the actions in DC “insurrection, sedition, and treason.” Well, once again, they’re projecting.
TV news and the internet have been full of a video featuring restaurant owner Angela Marsden. She’s the owner of Pineapple Hill Saloon and Grill. In this video, Marsden is frustrated to the point of tears and she is questioning the lockdown policy.
Big Tech’s censorship is election tampering. It may also violate campaign finance law. It’s actions clearly amount to in kind donations. Silicon Valley is censoring the NY Post’s Hunter Biden story. This is important. Sure elections are messy. The closer we get to Election Day gets the more stories come out which are designed to … Read more
Both Facebook and Twitter do have us in their sights – and our traffic has taken hits because of that as they have throttled us. No matter, I’ve always maintained that I don’t write for the hits (although I’m happy to see them). I write about what either amuses or concerns me.
Several of New Hampshire’s ‘Newspapers’ have gone *begging for donations to stay afloat. Some have shifted more content online and abandoned 7-days a week print editions. With an increasing shift to digital, how has GraniteGrok’s dominance held up?
Both the GraniteGrok Facebook Page and the Group are frequent targets for left-leaning “fact-checkers.” These folks are so good that they create the fact (we never asserted) then tell Facebook we did and label it fake news.