NYT admits Facebook used a secret banlist to suppress right-wing outlets posting voter fraud info, justified as 'low quality'.
Fuck me for skimming that NYT article. It's way worse than I thought!
https://archive.vn/l6nvt dailywire
Report: Facebook Used ‘Secret Internal Ranking’ Of News Sites To Suppress ‘Right-Wing’ Sources After Election By Tim Pearce Nov 25, 2020
Notice only ONE left-leaning site, Occupy Democrats, was suppressed.
Trump-hating CNN, "we won't publish Hunter leaks" NPR, and China-loving NYT, were boosted:
Roiled by Election, Facebook Struggles to Balance Civility and Growth
Employees and executives are battling over how to reduce misinformation and hate speech without hurting the company’s bottom line.
By Kevin Roose, Mike Isaac and Sheera Frenkel Nov. 24, 2020 Updated 12:07 p.m. ET
SAN FRANCISCO — In the tense days after the presidential election, a team of Facebook employees presented the chief executive, Mark Zuckerberg, with an alarming finding: Election-related misinformation was going viral on the site.
In response, the employees proposed an emergency change to the site’s news feed algorithm, which helps determine what more than two billion people see every day. It involved emphasizing the importance of what Facebook calls “news ecosystem quality” scores, or N.E.Q., a secret internal ranking it assigns to news publishers based on signals about the quality of their journalism.
Typically, N.E.Q. scores play a minor role in determining what appears on users’ feeds. But several days after the election, Mr. Zuckerberg agreed to increase the weight that Facebook’s algorithm gave to N.E.Q. scores to make sure authoritative news appeared more prominently, said three people with knowledge of the decision, who were not authorized to discuss internal deliberations.
The change was part of the “break glass” plans Facebook had spent months developing for the aftermath of a contested election. It resulted in a spike in visibility for big, mainstream publishers like CNN, The New York Times and NPR, while posts from highly engaged hyperpartisan pages, such as Breitbart and Occupy Democrats, became less visible, the employees said.
It was a vision of what a calmer, less divisive Facebook might look like. Some employees argued the change should become permanent, even if it was unclear how that might affect the amount of time people spent on Facebook. In an employee meeting the week after the election, workers asked whether the “nicer news feed” could stay, said two people who attended.
https://archive.vn/Ak16M Josh Kraushaar @HotlineJosh Nov 25, 2020
Remarkable that it took an “emergency” (post-election) for Facebook to prioritize mainstream news in its algorithm over ideologically-driven memes/junk.
Against the Grain columnist at National Journal. Political reporting & analysis, without fear or favor. (Opinions expressed here are my own.) Washington, DC
What Facebook Fed the Baby Boomers
Many Americans’ feeds are nightmares. I know because I spent weeks living inside two of them.
By Charlie Warzel Opinion writer at large. Nov. 24, 2020
I showed one comment thread to a colleague who doesn’t use Facebook and my colleague found it shocking. “Facebook created a town hall for fighting,” they said. “It’s almost like if you were building a machine to make a country divisive and extreme — if you were to sit down and plan what that would look like —- it would be this.”
https://archive.vn/Kga8k Andy Ngô @MrAndyNgo Aug 27, 2020
.@CNN chyron: “Fiery But Mostly Peaceful Protests After Police Shooting” #KenoshaRiots
https://archive.vn/XxtiJ CNNVerified account @CNN 25 Oct 2020
A right-wing offensive is underway to discredit social media companies just days before the election.
Conservatives push to discredit Facebook, Twitter and Google just days before the election By Brian Fung, CNN Business Updated 1256 GMT (2056 HKT) October 25, 2020
https://archive.vn/v5iUg dailycaller
NPR Won’t Cover Hunter Biden Laptop Because They Refuse To ‘Waste’ Their ‘Readers’ Time On Stories That Are Just Pure Distractions’ SHELBY TALCOTT MEDIA REPORTER October 22, 202012:21 PM ET
https://archive.vn/o0DIy nymag MEDIA NOV. 9, 2020
Times Change In the Trump years, the New York Times became less dispassionate and more crusading, sparking a raw debate over the paper’s future. By Reeves Wiedeman
In August 2019, the paper ran a front-page headline — “Trump Urges Unity vs. Racism” — that caused enough uproar on the left about reputation laundering on the president’s behalf that it was eventually changed to “Assailing Hate But Not Guns,” at which point the president himself joined the fray. “ ‘Trump Urges Unity Vs. Racism,’ was the correct description in the first headline by the Failing New York Times,” he tweeted. “Fake News - That’s what we’re up against.”
Last month, “Opinion” published a column by a Chinese government official arguing for the country’s military crackdown in Hong Kong. It was a virtual repeat of the Cotton situation.
https://archive.vn/RvRQ5 Batya Ungar-Sargon @bungarsargon 24 Nov 2020
A new low @nytopinion: publishing state propaganda from a genocidal regime. They can't run a single OpEd by a Trump voter out of terror of a newsroom revolt, but they know their colleagues well: No fears of a reaction to the genocidal Chinese government.
If Biden does become your president I'm pretty sure he'll see no reason at all to reign this in. Who knows if you will even be told about your next election, this one was a close-run thing and, well, it's much, much easier to win an election if the Republican candidate is just ... not mentioned.
Especially if firms like facebook and twitter and discord, etc, etc just ban both the candidate and any mention of the candidate. That wouldn't even be too far away from the position today, much less after four years to cement the policy.
This election already proved that media and big tech have the power to influence the election. I'm sure the censorship of "far right" voices will accelerate to ensure a one party state in the future. No right wing organization will be tolerated because they will be immediately labeled all hate group neo-nazis.
Both party establishments (enough Republicans to make a difference) hated Trump because a second term would threaten to stop the gravy train (see Hunter Biden emails).
After that it's open the floodgates on "justice" legislation which is nothing more than racism by another name, anarco-tyranny to keep the boot on non-ally whites, conservatives, and true Christian groups, while crime skyrockets (no self defense), and a rapid decline in middle class standard of living in the name of climate change while the elites get access to all the resources.
The United States of America is dead and its corpse will be paraded around for a while while the last bits of the constitution finish runing through the shredder.
The only free countries left will be former communist blocks but they're too small to resist the EU, so will fall eventually. The US is on the same leftist track as all other western powers.
There is no refuge.
We had some fun times bros. I wish it could have been fun all the way to end.