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Actors as Moral & Political Arbiters?

October 21, 2019 Norm Silber

An actor is a person who portrays a character in a performance. The actor’s interpretation of their role—the art of acting—pertains to the role played, whether based on a real person or fictional character. In other words, a “good actor” is a person who is good at pretending to be, and holding themselves out as, … Read more

Facebook-Censored Social media, Shadow-banning

Is Facebook Throttling Our Content?

September 27, 2019 Steve MacDonald

Something strange happened this week. Our likes and follows continue to climb on Facebook, but out of nowhere reach, and interactions have dropped off a cliff. Hmmm, he says, what might cause that to happen?

ICYMI – Right Wing Staffers are Building Social Media Dossiers on Left-Wing Reporters

August 27, 2019 Steve MacDonald

The media does this thing where they get some intern to scour your internet history for two words placed in the wrong order. Proof you are a [bigot, racist, xenophobe, etc.] which then becomes breaking news. The media can now expect similar treatment.

How U.S. Social Media and Search Results Manipulate Behavior (Including Elections)

August 4, 2019 Op-Ed

by Dr. Bruce Trivellini

In the coming weeks, we will be putting together a series of posts. They will provide information on how to research and understand the way Social Media collects and uses the information from you when you use their platform.

Pelosi Claims Control of Free Speech

June 16, 2019June 15, 2019

Social media is becoming decidedly unsociable. There is a lot of misinformation on platforms like Facebook, Twitter, and YouTube. But that is only one issue. Another social media issue is users scumming, snubbing, bullying or shunning one another. It is quite another when the platforms censor and control the users. It is a third when, … Read more

Bill Would Allow State To Sue Big Tech (Social Media) for Viewpoint Discrimination

May 7, 2019 Steve MacDonald

Big tech and social media are biased. They are, and they should admit it. Honesty matters. But they don’t. They let the Muslim Brotherhood tweet while GraniteGrok gets banned for sharing real news. Texas doesn’t like it, and they’ve proposed a legislative ‘solution.’

Trump Meets With Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey About What They Did to GraniteGrok (sort of)

April 24, 2019April 24, 2019 Steve MacDonald

Yesterday I published a reminder that GraniteGrok’s Twitter account was still blocked. The same day President Trump met with Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey over the question of Twitter-Bias.

Did You Hear About Facebook’s Latest Content Ban?

April 14, 2019April 14, 2019 Steve MacDonald

Last week Facebook began banning content it decides ” glorifies white nationalism and separatism.” Facebook is entitled to do whatever it wants but if Hate is the problem and Facebook has a cure, they’d better take a look over the edge of that tiny ideological box into which they’ve crammed their so-called public interest.

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April 2, 2019 Steve MacDonald

This is a great opportunity for our readers. I just completed this free training and I highly recommend it. Especially if you spend any amount of time on Facebook. It will make you much more effective.

Why the Facts Don’t Matter

March 18, 2019March 14, 2019 Op-Ed

by Shannon McGinley As the head of a nonprofit known for taking principled stands, I believe the truth is important. Foundational to our organization is the belief an informed electorate is critical to our republic. So, before taking a stand or sharing information, we also do our homework to make sure we know what we’re … Read more

Project Veritas: Insider Exposes Facebook Deboosting, Targeting, and Blocking of Conservatives

March 3, 2019 Steve MacDonald

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

Worried About Social Media Shadow Banning – Our One-Step Simple Solution

February 9, 2019 Steve MacDonald

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.

Stop Ceding Ground in the Battle of Ideas – Sign up For Digital Activism Classes in 2019

December 31, 2018 Steve MacDonald

Liberty Digital has activism classes starting next week. What is that? It’s a comprehensive education in the use of digital media to reach your audience. If you’re a candidate for office or an activist leader, you’re probably looking for every advantage you can gain in order to get your message out and grow support for your … Read more

Southern New Hampshire University Wants Campus Groups’ Social Media Passwords

September 27, 2018September 19, 2018 Steve MacDonald

The lead in today’s Manchester Union Leader is SNHU requires all clubs to reveal passwords. That sounds Orwellian.

SNHU says it is to protect the continuity of the communities. There are a number of approved campus groups that have languished since the page administrators have graduated. By collecting the login credentials they can ensure that new admins have access to keep the groups updated. And this sounds reasonable until you get to this bit.

UNH Institutes Anti-Free Speech ‘Social Media Policy’

September 26, 2018April 30, 2018 Steve MacDonald

The Univerity of New Hampshire has added a Social Media Policy to its Student’s Rights, Rules, and Responsibility code of conduct. It’s a Big Brother chill-blanket on free speech that allows anyone to report anyone else whenever they think their feelings have been hurt or the feelings of others might be hurt.

What could go wrong?

Yes, we are still here, James, and thanks for noticing!

September 26, 2018January 1, 2012 Skip

Every Friday (pretty much), James Pindell at WMUR Political Scoop does his Up and Down for the past week; given that it’s New Year’s, he swapped the timeline for the year’s span; in his Down side, he had this:

Local political blogosphere: With Dean Barker no longer running the day to day of Blue Hampshire, and with Red Hampshire gone, the blogosphere is less robust, is not growing, and is not driving the conversation like they were. At least Granite Grok got a face lift.

Well, at least thanks for noticing! And I also note: we’re still here, we have no plans to go away, and RINOs and Statists will still hate us and get annoyed by us. Yes, like RH, many sites that started out around the same time we did have gone away or the passion has flamed out…..blogging takes a lot of passion to do well and it requires discipline to make it work. Unlike others that tried it simply as a way to earn a living, this is our avocation (serious obsession?), not our vocation. Being a full time political blogger is not easy to do, at least on the Right side of the blogosphere. Financially, all I hope to do is pay the server bill and acquire the technology that will allows us to extend into different areas – more podcasts, more live streaming, more video, and whatever the next big tech thing coming down the line that will enable us to get our message out there. And getting out the message transcends the technology – the goal is to influence people no matter the media.

Thus, I would tend to agree with the assessment, at least in part.

DOES THE GOVERNMENT HAVE YOU UNDER SURVEILLANCE?

September 26, 2018October 11, 2011 Rick Olson

“We are rapidly entering the age of no privacy, where everyone is open to surveillance at all times; where there are no secrets from government.” —Justice William O Douglas

Perhaps some will read this and the knee-jerk reaction might be, “Oh, there goes one of those tin-foil-lined hat rants again…Like the government doesn’t have anything better to do than watch, “me.” Perhaps on some level, thinking of the government having citizens under surveillance harkens back to Soviet-style citizen oppression, much less being an inefficient and wasteful use of valuable resources. This issue, however, focuses on the incidental happenstance of average citizens and the likelihood of being caught up in something few contemplate or even envision.

You’re watching the news and a story about bombs and explosives airs and part of the interview features some law enforcement mouthpiece claiming, “The bomb was constructed from instructions readily available on the internet…and materials bought at local hardware and home goods retailers…” You have never given thought about building a bomb, much less how to build one. So, being bored you grab your laptop and Google, “How to build a bomb” Sorting through the various hits the topic garners, you spend all of ten minutes searching and reading. All you really want to know is if the claims made have any credibility.

See? About Facebook? What I said….

September 26, 2018August 20, 2011

This from Fox News Radio at 550 KFYI via Drudge Report. Consider: There are millions upon millions of postings on Facebook, every day! But only THIS posting, among the millions, gets "accidentally" deleted…aka "censored." I hate statist organizations…and Facebook appears to be one of them.

Friday, August 19, 2011

Facebook Removes Arizona Governor Jan Brewer’s Post Criticizing New Immigration Policy Set By President Obama’s Administration

Paul Davenport

Associated Press

PHOENIX (AP) – Facebook said Friday it mistakenly removed a post in which Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer criticized a controversial policy decision by President Barack Obama’s administration to limit deportations of illegal immigrants.

The Republican governor had said in a post Friday that Facebook censored the item she posted Thursday because it apparently violated Facebook’s community standards.

Brewer didn’t elaborate in her post, but she said Friday in an interview that an email she received from Facebook said the post was removed because of an included illustration.

The email, which she read aloud, didn’t specify how the illustration violated standards.

"I’d like to know why it happens,” she said of the removal.

Where Your Other Facebook Friends Roam

September 26, 2018August 18, 2011 Steve MacDonald

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.