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Post by cryptica »

I have a feeling that Facebook wants Trump to be elected. I think Mark Zuckerberg may have discovered how to play "Good cop, bad cop" this year.

First, he played good cop trying to protect free speech while his employees played bad cop trying to censor. That was just a test to see how people reacted. To see if people perceived Mark Zuckerberg better after this.

Now Facebook is playing bad cop so that Trump can be the good cop and win the election.

Facebook is benefiting from inflationary monetary policy and Trump being eyeballs deep in debt will ensure that inflationary policy continues. Trump is not going to let the economy tank on his watch.

If Biden wins, he will let the economy tank early in his term and blame it on Trump.

BTW, Spotify also played "Good cop, bad cop" with its employees this year related to Joe Rogan. Again, Spotify management playing good cop letting Joe Rogan express himself and Spotify employees playing bad cop wanting him censored.

Re: Facebook, Twitter block the NY Post from posting

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Post by runarberg »

TMWNN wrote: post #157
runarberg wrote: post #133

Just step back a little and consider the alternatives here. NYP is pretty obviously smearing for a major civil event here, a civil event that has the potential of causing serious harm to the second largest democracy in the world. If the social media companies would just allow this smearing to go unhindered, they are basically saying: “We don’t care if bad actors use our platform to undermine our democracy,” which is…

>NYP is pretty obviously smearing for a major civil event here What makes this "obviously smearing"?

1. The sensationalism of the original title. The accusation here is that the candidate’s son introduced a Ukrainian businessman to him. This is hardly a smoking gun evidence against the father doing anything wrong.

2. There is no evidence that the emails are in fact real, and nothing is even offered to that extent.

3. The article does not come from a reputable news source. In fact it comes from a news source with serious damage to it’s reputation.

4. No other major news outlet is picking this story up, further undermining the credibility of the article.

If I was a social media company I wouldn’t want to touch this with a 10 meter pole.

Re: Facebook, Twitter block the NY Post from posting

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Post by googthrowaway42 »

TMWNN wrote: post #157
runarberg wrote: post #133

Just step back a little and consider the alternatives here. NYP is pretty obviously smearing for a major civil event here, a civil event that has the potential of causing serious harm to the second largest democracy in the world. If the social media companies would just allow this smearing to go unhindered, they are basically saying: “We don’t care if bad actors use our platform to undermine our democracy,” which is…

>NYP is pretty obviously smearing for a major civil event here What makes this "obviously smearing"?

Any attempt to bring information to light that is harmful to the Cathedral is considered smearing.

Re: Facebook, Twitter block the NY Post from posting

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Post by donmcronald »

tootie wrote: post #86
Plough_Jogger wrote: post #3

The article in question can be found here: https://nypost.com/2020/10/14/email-reveals-how-hunter-biden...

What a bizarre story. Unidentified person drops off a damaged computer at a repair shop and never comes back. Hard drive contains lots of salacious info about Hunter Biden. Repair shop decides the correct course of action is to give it to Rudy Giuliani. That is fishy as hell.

> Steve Bannon, former adviser to President Trump, told The Post about the existence of the hard drive in late September and Giuliani provided The Post with a copy of it on Sunday.

I want to see the raw emails.

Re: Facebook, Twitter block the NY Post from posting

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Post by dx87 »

partiallypro wrote: post #127
rectang wrote: post #108

For a counterpoint on why this story is likely BS: https://talkingpointsmemo.com/fivepoints/5-points-on-why-the...

It likely is BS, but not definitely. Even some of the points in the TPM article aren't very strong (I'm sorry, but journalists mocking the story isn't a point.) But, even if it is, it's not the role of Facebook to decide it is or isn't, when it is not verify-ably false. Instead they should just elevate critics of the article/scoop like the article you linked.

Also the point about the backstory not making sense. It basically says "The Biden Campaign checked Biden's schedule, and said that Biden didn't attend an illegal meeting at that time". The rush to cover and dismiss the story makes it seem more likely that it's true (I have no idea either way), than if people could just write it off as another crackpot story from the NY Post.

Re: Facebook, Twitter block the NY Post from posting

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Post by spoopyskelly »

rhino369 wrote: post #150
gjsman-1000 wrote: post #8

Whatever your perspective, directly verifiable censorship like this is just begging for legal trouble and monopoly investigations. Tactically speaking, I would say this is a massive mistake from Twitter.

It's probably also amplifying the story.

Back in the day everyone was laughing at idiots doing Streissand Effect shit and now they are being praised for censorship.

Re: Facebook, Twitter block the NY Post from posting

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Post by paganel »

annexrichmond wrote: post #70

Facebook also censors joebiden.info in private messages

Works for me on the desktop version, i.e. it isn't censored, I haven't checked though in their direct Facebook Messenger app. Also, am not from the US, have sent the joebiden.info link for testing to my gf who's also not from the US.
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