The Tech and Social -Media giants can’t help themselves. Hey, they’re people too. With left-leaning urges, they can’t #resist. Just a tweak to the code here. Adjust the algorithm there. Suddenly your search results or news feed have fewer stories about the things that interest you on the right. Fear not, brave patriot. There is a solution.
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Introducing Grok Facebook Polls – Into the Breach With a Question About Abortion
We launched a new feature on Facebook today. Facebook polls. They will run for up to a week, and we will then report the results here, along with some of the comments left in their wake. If you are on Facebook you can follow the Grok and participate here. I can tell you we’re already stirring things up a bit.
Grok Fan Favorites from January 2019
Another booming month for the Grok, with more amazing growth. Since our early September Reboot, we’ve more than tripled our daily traffic. It’s closer to four times as high as not. And that’s all thanks to you. We appreciate your time and attention, which, in January, resulted in these contributions making our Top Ten Most Viewed posts, … Read more
Democrats Spent as Much as Russians on Fake “Russian Bots” to ‘Influence’ US Elections
How fun is this. Democrats, you remember them? Russia used Facebook to “buy” the Election for Trump, yadda-yadda. It looks like they take lessons from their ideological brethren. While ranting about the Ruskies spending rubels on Facebook ads, the American Left was creating fake Russian accounts to influence the Alabama Senate Race.
Net Neutrality – Because ‘They’ Want To Bring It Back!
When the Trump administration encouraged the FCC to pull the plug on a Government regulated internet, they did just that. They got the government out of your “digital bedroom.” The usual suspects were outraged. But you don’t want the government regulating the internet like a utility. Not under any condition. And that includes crafting new regulations to control how entities like Google or Facebook or Twitter behave in the free market.
Let the marketplace work it out because it will.
If it isn’t on “google”…….
Some guy on Facebook was berating me because, instead of simply asking the Attorney General’s himself office for copies of the recently released NH Senate investigation transcripts, the fact he couldn’t “google” them meant they didn’t exist. He even suggested I might have made the whole thing up. So, for any of you who also … Read more
If the Internet is a ‘Public Utility’ You Can’t Just Ban Alex Jones
I don’t pay any attention to Alex Jones. It’s not a value judgment he’s just not anywhere in my top-ten, twenty, or perhaps even 100 (500?) political talkers, writers, or thinkers for whom I make time. I am aware of him but not overly familiar.
Others think he’s the bee’s knees. I’m not here to tell you one way or another, but recent actions by social media tech giants against Mr. Jones have demonstrated another potential layer of liberal hypocrisy worthy of our exploration.
Facebook Doodlings…Reading it Off the MSNBC TelePrompTer To Prove My Point
A good friend of the Grok recently shared my post on how Tax reform is not just about money; it is about trust. He posted it as a status update on the Closed Group ‘Brookline NH Elections’ on Facebook. He got this response.
Keith F. Thompson: “The tax cut for ordinary Americans is temporary, while the tax cuts for corporations and the very wealthy are permanent. “Average” Americans have already seen their tax cuts disappear like vapor. Inflation, cuts in services, a MASSIVE increase in the deficit, and now, chaos from this maniacal trade war. My tax cut was smaller, and didn’t survive the rise in gas prices.”
Here’s what I offered in response.
Facebook Blocked my Zuckerberg Post?
GraniteGrok auto posts articles directly to our facebook page but not the one I wrote last night about Mark Zuckerberger-Meister Berger. Probably just a glitch of some sort. I wonder if they’ll find some reason not to post this one?
A List of 54 Anti Common Core Facebook Pages – By State
Laura Rambeau Lee from Right Reason.com has done us all a great service. She has compiled a list of all the anti-common core facebook pages by state. There are 54 links (so far), three in New Hampshire, so feel free to check a few of them out. And by all means, like these groups and … Read more
LP Is Awesome! No, Not Liquid Propane, the Libertarian Party. Or is it?
I saw this humorous graphic on facebook this morning. I actually laughed out loud it was so absurd. Then I went to the LP facbook page (Washington DC) to ensure it came from them, which it did. I guess we could call it LP propaganda? It’s a graphic designed to show us all how AWESOME Libertarians are. They are pretty awesome, except when it comes to graphics like this one.
Now I’m assuming that the stuff in blue is lefty thought, those in red–are for the right, with the Libertarian party (on facebook at least) staking out a solid middle ground between the two, at least in this contrived configuration, and disavowing those issues they declare as legitimate for both sides–as defined by them–that are outside the lines defined for ‘Libertarians believe in.’
But when I look at this I don’t see awesome, all I see is ignorance. Case in point: Libertarians believe that people on the left believe in personal freedom?
Bwahahahahaha!
UN Arms Treaty Dead…But Not The Discussion
I was writing a follow up to our grass roots effort to contact New Hampshire Senator Kelly Ayotte--to push her off the fence, basically, to vote against the UN Arms Treaty. Senator Ayotte eventually agreed with us and along with Senator Portman–who is typically an unreliable centrist on issues like this–made it impossible for the treaty to get Senate Approval.
Yeah, we were pretty jacked about it. But not everyone was convinced it was the right thing to do.
I agree with Glenn about Facebook
On a post concerning the platform that has just created 6 new Billionaires and about a 1,000 new Millionaires, Facebook, I agree with Sidebar: I dryly note that Zuckerberg comes from the same learned institution as the 1/32 Indian / recipe plaigerizer / Scott Brown wannbe Elizabeth Warren. I’m wondering what she thinks about all … Read more
UNH – More Hypocrisy & Politicking…with your tax dollars.
The problem with UNH is…it’s filled with progressives, and they love to waste your money. (Just look at the NH House from 2007-2010.)
If UNH isn’t shoveling federal dollars on cow fart research to Obama supporter and NH Democrat Party check writer Gary Herschberg, then it is busy paying professors like Ed “Flash” Larkin to do nothing for a few years on the taxpayer dime. (Original comments on that here and here.)
So why should we be surprised to see the University that cried poor expending labor and resources to maintain a Facebook page titled “UNH Presidents Commission on the Status of Women?” Can you guess the political slant of the content this page is “sharing” with the world?
I’m sure it’s hard to imagine but it’s….a little bit to the left.
Where Your Other Facebook Friends Roam
Social Media is how we communicate these days and Facebook is currently the belle of the Ball. While spending 90 seconds on a web site is a good long stay, most Facebook users spend about 25 minutes wandering Zuckerberg’s conversational multi-sphere at any given time. How long that dominance lasts is anyone’s guess but for the time being, if you are networking, marketing, or just connecting with people you know (or looking for people you have not seen since Nixon–or maybe Clinton–was in the White House), odds are you have a Facebook account.
So are you connecting? The average user has a few hundred friends. Serious users peak around seven-hundred. And then there are the folks who get up past 800 and just blossom into the thousands. Whether you have thousands or hundreds, regardless of whether you are actually friends or just share an interest, odds are good you are missing or ignoring most of them, and they you. And it’s all your fault.