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Facebook Scaled Back Voter Registration Kickoff

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Re: Facebook Scaled Back Voter Registration Kickoff

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Post by 0xy »

>The initiative, however, immediately drew the ire of the Trump campaign, which accused Facebook—without evidence—of secretly using the effort to help Biden.

Evidence does exist, so this statement is baffling. As recently as June content moderators on Facebook were covertly recorded bragging about being politically biased. [1]

The same moderators explicitly claimed the company was "anti-Trump", and said "I think [all of the moderators] do that [delete posts for political reasons]".

Reading into the source (Campaign for Accountability), it's clear why they neglected to mention the evidence -- because they are politically biased themselves. [2]

[1] https://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2020/06/23/facebook_...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Campaign_for_Accountability

Re: Facebook Scaled Back Voter Registration Kickoff

#12

Post by tobr »

0xy wrote: post #11

>The initiative, however, immediately drew the ire of the Trump campaign, which accused Facebook—without evidence—of secretly using the effort to help Biden. Evidence does exist, so this statement is baffling. As recently as June content moderators on Facebook were covertly recorded bragging about being politically biased. [1] The same moderators explicitly claimed the company was "anti-Trump", and said "I think [all…

You have not presented any evidence that the voter registration initiative is secretly an effort to help the Biden campaign.

Re: Facebook Scaled Back Voter Registration Kickoff

#14

Post by tehwebguy »

0xy wrote: post #11

>The initiative, however, immediately drew the ire of the Trump campaign, which accused Facebook—without evidence—of secretly using the effort to help Biden. Evidence does exist, so this statement is baffling. As recently as June content moderators on Facebook were covertly recorded bragging about being politically biased. [1] The same moderators explicitly claimed the company was "anti-Trump", and said "I think [all…

> The same moderators explicitly claimed the company was "anti-Trump"

Well, they’re not. They have even carved out special exceptions to their content policy explicitly to prevent any punishment of Trump’s accounts even when he violates the policy.

Re: Facebook Scaled Back Voter Registration Kickoff

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Post by captainredbeard »

tehwebguy wrote: post #14
0xy wrote: post #11

>The initiative, however, immediately drew the ire of the Trump campaign, which accused Facebook—without evidence—of secretly using the effort to help Biden. Evidence does exist, so this statement is baffling. As recently as June content moderators on Facebook were covertly recorded bragging about being politically biased. [1] The same moderators explicitly claimed the company was "anti-Trump", and said "I think [all…

> The same moderators explicitly claimed the company was "anti-Trump" Well, they’re not. They have even carved out special exceptions to their content policy explicitly to prevent any punishment of Trump’s accounts even when he violates the policy.

To be fair, “anti-Trump” can mean (and probably means) bias against Trump supporters, not his accounts.

Re: Facebook Scaled Back Voter Registration Kickoff

#16

Post by daveFNbuck »

kumarvvr wrote: post #9

Isn't it the duty of the agency responsible for conducting elections that has to do this? FB should be ignored and media should not promote these articles. Sure, they can help if they want, but the primary information source should be the nodal election agency. Americans have been brainwashed to view the government as some sort of an evil lunatic preventing all of them from becoming billionaires. This is a dangerous…

So I shouldn't view the government as being some sort of evil lunatic, but it is already becoming a dictatorship?
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