Transparency is important for trust, this is a good step towards it.
Parler, Backed by Mercer Family, Makes Play for Conservatives Mad at FB, Twitter
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#12Is there any credible evidence of anti-conservative bias in FB or Twitter behavior? Can anyone point me at it?
It depends on what you consider anti-conservative. I've had a few friends mention that any links to something regarding "Benfords Law" (some forensic tool used for flagging potential fraud) gets an immediate "disputed" label.
My guess is that algorithmic checks are flagging posts and conservatives are interpreting that as censorship.
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#13Of course I have conservative (and pretty reasonable) friends who have made a declaration on FB that they're moving to Parler because they're concerned about "big tech's" controls on free speech. I checked it out and I'm pretty sure a big issue will be that it's going to attract an audience and subsequent content that national brands aren't going to consider brand safe. So if they find a model, I can't imagine it's g…
Everybody who cares about free speech is moving there.
Free speech isn't restricted to the right is it?
It's a fundamental human right.
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"Evil as the Left may be"?
What the hell is wrong with you?
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#15Is there any credible evidence of anti-conservative bias in FB or Twitter behavior? Can anyone point me at it?
Are you serious? They censor the President's tweets. Isn't that showing?
You might want to look up what censor means.
His lies are still there for anyone who wishes to read them, they are simply marked as the lies that they are.
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#16Is there any credible evidence of anti-conservative bias in FB or Twitter behavior? Can anyone point me at it?
At least for Facebook it’s actually the opposite. FB’s UX flow and design works better for conservative media.
From a political perspective, there are a billion stories about how FB leadership actively reaches out to conservative media to try and keep the platform friendly to them (including things like allowing the Daily Caller to be a “fact checker” on their platform). Many stories of “oh this feature to prevent trending of outright false shit would flag half of conservative media. Let’s not”
The naive reading is they are afraid of conservative backlash. But I’m personally a bit done with giving them the benefit of the doubt. I think they are actively courting conservatives (sacrificing only the tiniest slice of the far right on certain high profile bans)
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#17"I predicted all of this, you know. All of it."
Deplatforming and the cry of "businesses can choose who they do business with" were always inevitably going to lead to the creation of platforms that cater to the deplatformed, even if only because it makes business sense to provide service to the underserved. And, if the cultural and political winds blow the wrong way, it's not impossible for them to eclipse the social media giants they splintered from.
The deplatformers footgunned themselves, all while patting each other on the back.
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#18Of course I have conservative (and pretty reasonable) friends who have made a declaration on FB that they're moving to Parler because they're concerned about "big tech's" controls on free speech. I checked it out and I'm pretty sure a big issue will be that it's going to attract an audience and subsequent content that national brands aren't going to consider brand safe. So if they find a model, I can't imagine it's g…
"...subsequent content that national brands aren't going to consider brand safe..."
Ever watch the commercials on Fox News? Plenty of national brands there. (For the record, I'm a liberal.) If there's enough momentum, the national brands aren't going lift so much as a finger to intervene.
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#19" I predicted all of this, you know. All of it. " Deplatforming and the cry of "businesses can choose who they do business with" were always inevitably going to lead to the creation of platforms that cater to the deplatformed, even if only because it makes business sense to provide service to the underserved. And, if the cultural and political winds blow the wrong way, it's not impossible for them to eclipse the soci…
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#20" I predicted all of this, you know. All of it. " Deplatforming and the cry of "businesses can choose who they do business with" were always inevitably going to lead to the creation of platforms that cater to the deplatformed, even if only because it makes business sense to provide service to the underserved. And, if the cultural and political winds blow the wrong way, it's not impossible for them to eclipse the soci…
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