Tag: Facebook

Warner: Property Appraisals Increase By Hundreds of Thousands

May 13, 2025 Aaron Warner

A recent post on the “What’s Happening Hartford” Facebook page asked town members if their new property appraisals increased and by how much. As the answers came in the numbers were staggering as were many of the complaints. The original poster (OP) stated their property assessed value increase by $10,000 which led to a slew … Read more

Controlling Speech Is Too Much Work for Local Community Facebook Page

February 27, 2025February 27, 2025 Steve MacDonald

Londonderry NH on Facebook Shuts Down (two weeks before town elections) With only weeks to go before residents flock to the polls to pick their local elected representatives for the largest Facebook group featuring Londonderry town interests, it has gone dark. According to Londonderry Underground, it started when the admins appeared to be removing content … Read more

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Meta’s Free Speech Makeover And The Fight For Digital Free Speech

January 28, 2025 Daniel Ortner

Two weeks ago, Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg announced changes to Facebook and Instagram’s content moderation policies in order to return these platforms to their “roots around free expression.” Meta will eliminate restrictions on debate around controversial topics like immigration and gender identity, dramatically reduce the use of automatic moderation, and replace fact-checkers with Community Notes. These are … Read more

Facebook is About to Get a Little Bit Less Censorious

January 7, 2025 Steve MacDonald

I wandered over to a different Grok, X’s AI, and found this headline. META Ditches Fact-Checkers for Community Notes. Who doesn’t click on that? Here’s what it said. Multiple Media reports confirm this as accurate. As many of our readers have been banned, thrown in Facebook Jail, and throttled by Meta, we look forward to … Read more

Despotic Facebook is Marking ‘Grok Posts as Spam – Are We That Close to The Election?

June 18, 2024 Steve MacDonald

Let’s open by thanking the handful of people who have reached out to tell me that Facebook is taking down the Grok posts they share. The Platform marks them as spam and removes them for violating community standards. It is expected, and we know, but we don’t just have to take it.

New Mexico’s AG Investigates META for Allowing Child Grooming and Trafficking … But Not Its Public Schools?

January 7, 2024January 6, 2024 Steve MacDonald

New Mexico’s Attorney General, Raúl Torrez, has filed a lawsuit. In the suit, “Torrez claims that Meta’s platforms, Facebook and Instagram, are a breeding ground for predators who target children for human trafficking, the distribution of sexual images, grooming, and solicitation.”

[Update!] Is Facebook Fraudulently Fishing for Voter Data Using NH SOS Dave Scanlan’s Name?

December 9, 2023December 9, 2023 Steve MacDonald

Facebook has been tossing up an alert asking if you are registered to vote. I ignored it when I saw it, as did a few other folks who noticed, but a Grok reader screen grabbed it, and it found its way to my inbox.

Have You Been Permanently Banned from Facebook?

September 15, 2023 Op-Ed

I might be wasting my time thinking this is something plausible, but as a quick run down, back in July 2021, I posted on Facebook encouraging parents to do their research on childhood vaccinations and not to just blindly trust their doctor.

One of the Nuanced Meanings of the Word ‘Meta’ Is ‘Between.’ As in I Am between Jobs Because I Just Got Fired from Meta.

March 16, 2023 Steve MacDonald

A Labrador sheds twice a year, so the saying goes—January to June and July to December. Facebook, now doing business as Meta, is trying to shed more than labs, only it’s not hair; it is employees.

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Facebook Inspectors Will Assess if Exposed Nipples are Female (Bad) or Trans (Good) …

January 23, 2023 Steve MacDonald

If you were wondering what Facebook had planned to improve the experience, get ready for approved pornography. Meta has a panel of experts who review and decide if exposed nipples are or are not cisgender.

Go Woke Go… “Facebook’s” Value Has Plunged Nearly 70% Since Last Year …

October 31, 2022 Steve MacDonald

We’ve had a beef with Facebook for Years (impossible beef, since it’s Facebook). The Social media beast trampled on our speech because they didn’t like it, so is this Karmic revenge? While the markets have taken a beating under Biden (down 30+ percent), Meta (Facebook) is down 67%.

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America’s Liberty, Our Future, Hangs by a Vote

October 23, 2022 Op-Ed

Summer 2016 The FBI had in its possession an unverified dossier outlining many salacious accusations against candidate Donald Trump. They knew the dossier was, through a convoluted process, the product of Hillary Clinton’s campaign’s opposition research. Surveillance of the Trump campaign was an FBI imperative and to make it happen a FISA warrant needed to … Read more

Musk To Annex Instagram from Facebook

October 7, 2022 Johnny Bananas (Fake News Reporter!)

After Conquering Twitter, Elon Musk Set To Invade Facebook

The world of social media geopolitics is undergoing a shift of apocalyptic proportions.

Groomers Part 2: Power Structures

August 6, 2022 Aaron Warner

“To learn who rules over you, simply find out who you are not allowed to criticize.” -Voltaire In part 1 of this series, we looked at the common method groomers use to ensnare their victims from identifying and personalizing to love bombing and ultimately enslaving. We discussed the main organizations and individuals who use them … Read more

Elon Musk WILL Own Twitter By The End of the Day – [Update!]

April 25, 2022April 25, 2022 Steve MacDonald

The Twitter board appears ready to accept an offer by Elon Musk to buy the Social Media Platform outright. That means musk could have the board’s blessing with shareholders instructed to take his offer of 54.20 per share.

The America That You and I Knew Is Gone

April 4, 2022 Amil Imani

My Fellow Americans,

The America that you and I knew is gone. Complaining on Facebook or other social media will be to no avail. Action is needed to correct past mistakes and that starts with YOU. I am compelled to write this today because each day this president breaks another law with impunity.

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Chips Starting to Fall

February 17, 2022February 17, 2022 Steve Earle

Sure looks like the Left is running with some rough sledding in spite of our frozen snow cover. It’s not enough that Ol’ Slow Joe has messed up everything from his Afghanistan pull out, to the Border, to the economy, to energy independence, and to foreign affairs.

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