Fishy smell to the Facebook: Whistleblower is Left Activist repped by lawyer for "Whistleblower" behind Trump Impeach (news, advocate)
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Not anti-Facebook. I could live with or without it.
But I'm a little confused a little about what it is we are objecting to with Facebook.
So this whistleblower thinks Facebook should share their data with the govt? So do we want all businesses to share data with govt.?
Her biggest claim right now is that Facebook feeds the hate. Does Facebook feed the hate or do people go looking for it...and are we saying that we want govt. to make sure media doesn't let us get too angry.
What happens if someone decides some of the posts here are creating too much hate and anger and should be censored?
I don't know.
Don't we have to tread carefully here.
I agree we need to be careful. I think there are a few issues here that do need to be considered. One is the fact that they know their platforms are harming teenagers and yet continue to chose to maximize profit without regard for the harm. Yes, it is up to parents to monitor what their kids are consuming, but these sites are designed to be psychologically addictive. Can we all agree something should be done about this?
Second concern is that people don’t have to go looking for hate, but FB algorithms are feeding it to people.. Not viewing both sides of an issue is dangerous regardless of what side of the political spectrum you are on. Facebook’s algorithms feed only one side because they have shown it stirs emotions and emotions mean clicks and ad revenue.
The third issue is freedom of speech. This feels like an attempt by democrats to get viewpoints of only right-leaning posts banned. The “whistle blower” has donated like 30 times to democrat candidates including support of AOC! The only hate she mentions is the Jan 6th riot but nothing from the ANTIFA, BLM riots and other hateful content from the left. BIG DIFFERENCE between conservatives and democrats approach on this - conservatives idea of censorship is to allow more voices to be heard while democrats want only their voices to be heard. Fundamental difference there.
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Boy you so called right winger are working hard to discredit her, Why? Russian Trolls are hard at work on these message boards to discredit her. I just hope the average don’t believe the BS being posted and do their own home work on this.
Another victim of the Russian hoax.
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The end result will be a social credit system to root out the unfavorable opinions and make social media safe again. I can see (in the future) government social media platform people will be compelled to use.
Firstly whistleblowers dont usually get invited to sit down with 60 minutes. Something is very off with the whole thing and parties in the background. Theres an inside case being made for more censorship with this whole interview and potentially Government/ Democrat operative collusion.
Both the far left and far right hate FB and social media in general and think they are unfair and biased. Just for very different reasons. This has been going on since 2016. Its inevitable that social media giants will be broken up and hyper regulated. Forums like CD will disappear. And China outside the reach of US bureaucrats will take over social media with TicTok and other creations.
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These revelations have every parent who doesn't bother to monitor their child's internet activity saying how could the government allow them to do this to my child. Of course there are just as many parents (probally the same ones) complaining about government dictating what their child is being taught at school....
She's advocating the government regulate social media.
Who "regulates" social media over in China ?
I hope people do not get sucked Into WANTING the government to control social media.
Yes, now that I saw some of her testimony and read more, it seems this is a scam so there's more government regulation, or government's blessing to FB so they can regulate it on behalf of the government, which of course will mean more silencing of those on the right.
I agree we need to be careful. I think there are a few issues here that do need to be considered. One is the fact that they know their platforms are harming teenagers and yet continue to chose to maximize profit without regard for the harm. Yes, it is up to parents to monitor what their kids are consuming, but these sites are designed to be psychologically addictive. Can we all agree something should be done about this?
Second concern is that people don’t have to go looking for hate, but FB algorithms are feeding it to people.. Not viewing both sides of an issue is dangerous regardless of what side of the political spectrum you are on. Facebook’s algorithms feed only one side because they have shown it stirs emotions and emotions mean clicks and ad revenue.
The third issue is freedom of speech. This feels like an attempt by democrats to get viewpoints of only right-leaning posts banned. The “whistle blower” has donated like 30 times to democrat candidates including support of AOC! The only hate she mentions is the Jan 6th riot but nothing from the ANTIFA, BLM riots and other hateful content from the left. BIG DIFFERENCE between conservatives and democrats approach on this - conservatives idea of censorship is to allow more voices to be heard while democrats want only their voices to be heard. Fundamental difference there.
I disagree that they are feeding it to people.
I don't participate in political rants on Facebook -- save it for here..........so I NEVER see a Facebook driven post about politics.
I suspect she is right...people who look for political content will find it and be fed more of it. I'm fed more Canadian content, shopping, music, food and travel.
That's the algorithm and it is the same with Google and Amazon and your grocery store with your cards....blah blah blah.
And are conservatives calling for no censorship of Facebook....not sure you are right on that feeling.
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