[ April 24, 2024 ]
This is still more social media censorship, and more attempts to silence all conservative voices. Read my recent article over at The American Thinker. We are seeing an unprecedented erosion in our First Amendment rights, increasingly prohibiting the flow of ideas and free expression in the public square (social media). Run by left-wing self-possessed snowflakes, social media giants are indulging their worst autocratic impulses. And because they can, it is getting worse. “Absolute power corrupts absolutely.”
Having grown up in the 1970s, I can tell you it was a vastly different country then. It was free. But we aren’t any no longer, and it is time we took back what is ours — our unalienable freedoms.
“Report: Facebook Algorithm Change Hits Fox, Breitbart, Conservative Sites – CNN, New York Times Unaffected,” Breitbart, March 6, 2018:
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A report from the Outline finds that conservative sites including Breitbart News and Fox have also seen dramatic falls in engagement, while mainstream sites like CNN and the New York Times were unaffected.
Using data from analytics service Buzzsumo, the online publication found a stark contrast in the engagement rate for conservative media vs. mainstream media, with the former dropping sharply while the latter held steady. The Outline also found a decline in engagement for what they call left-wing “clickbait” sites, including Shareblue and BuzzFeed.
Via The Outline:
Fox News:
CNN:
Breitbart News
The New York Times:
The Outline reports that engagement for conservative media, much like the decline in engagement on President Trump’s page, cannot be attributed to a decline in posting frequency.
Jim Hoft’s Gateway Pundit … experienced a 55 percent drop in Facebook engagement from January to February despite the fact that the number of posts made had only decreased by approximately 20 percent. Similarly, though Steve Bannon’s Breitbart was only posting roughly 9 percent less content, Breitbart’s engagement dropped by nearly 28 percent, and interactions with the wildly popular Prager U decreased by nearly 32 percent despite the fact that the site was publishing approximately 18 percent more content than in January….
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40 Comments
6 years ago
… never post anylonger on monster https://quran.com/5/33-40 apologists twitter,
sharia https://quran.com/5/48 tube ‘narcissistic bubble universe’ who cannot stand criticism!
6 years ago
God created a sub species of homo Sapiens – Kafirs ( “The Other”) as inferior beings with zero humanity. https://quran.com/98/6-7 http://www.faithfreedom.org/the-other/
6 years ago
Reply to
Thorsten
Where is your scientific evidence, given that science doesn’t accept your concept of sub-species?
6 years ago
Reply to
aemoreira1981
Um a respected Ayatollah in Iran has publicly compared the unbeliever in islum to excrement fool and kafir al najjis is a common Arabpig expression in the islamic world.
6 years ago
Reply to
IzlamDownpressesHumanity
Where is his advanced STEM degree? I only listen to science, not an ayatollah.
6 years ago
Reply to
aemoreira1981
‘… kafir (extreme degrading word for UNbeliever) al najjis’ engl. ‘UNclean’ to allah 40/2 -> https://quran.com/9/28
6 years ago
Reply to
IzlamDownpressesHumanity
‘… kafir (extreme degrading word for UNbeliever) al najjis’ engl. ‘UNclean’ to allah 40/2 -> https://quran.com/9/28
6 years ago
Reply to
aemoreira1981
‘worst’ (UNbelievers) vs. ‘BEST of creatures’ (believers, Muslims) https://quran.com/98/6-7 https://quran.com/4/56-57
6 years ago
Pamela I love you and all you’re doing in this fight. There is an edit you must take care of in this.
But we aren’t any no longer
Needs repair. “But we are no longer” or “But we aren’t any longer” work fine.
One or the other.
6 years ago
Like facebook , twitter, even Google have joined Islamofascist gang http://tinyurl.com/lgp28rs
To censor conservative and Anti-jihadi news to push the islamisation agenda of the Left/Liberal/jihadis funded by saudi/qataris. They are either funded(muslims holding stake in their company) or paid Millions to shill for Islam and run down/smear those who oppose Islam.
And conservatives don’t want to fund the alternative media, nor unite to pursue the issue politically or legally then act surprised their First amendment is not getting up and fighting for them !
6 years ago
That they use biased “algorithms” is no surprise: promoting their own agenda they so overwhelmingly believe in. What is astonishingly surprising that those mostly leftist dominated so easily field of technology, news, science and education to exercise such power. WHY THIS HAVE HAD HAPPENED? Are those on the Right really so stupid and unable to counter that (develop their own technology and find investors)? Or they blind themselves way too much for too long in their own irrationality which PREVENTED their development?
6 years ago
Reply to
Voytek Gagalka
A big problem is that many people, including conservatives, will not accept change. They, like democrat voters automatically use what they always have been, not realizing that as slaves of habit, they are bought and sold like bulk meat. The way to get a business to change is to not use it if it is unsatisfactory, loosing money is a great motivator. As is, keeping billionaires wealthy is the net result of refusing to change.
6 years ago
Reply to
Voytek Gagalka
So, what you’re saying to right leaning organizations is to “move to the back of the bus”. Or just build your own bus so that forced segregation can continue.
6 years ago
Reply to
Voytek Gagalka
I have been asking myself the same question for quite a while. We already know that conservatism works every time it is tried, so where are the conservative entrepreneurs in those businesses? All it took to tear down the far reaching dominance of the liberal media was one talk show host to start it off. Look how far we have come since 1990. There was no Fox News, Breitbart, etc. We need to keep building on the firmly planted foundation and take the liberal media down once and for all!
6 years ago
Somehow I get the feeling this is tied-in w. anti-Trumpism, along w. anti-conserv. So those left-wing media and social-media are losing the battle presently.Just take a look at the red-blue election map.So the lefties are using up their bag of dirty tricks,like manipulating the data,etc.
D
6 years ago
First there was lying using statistics, now there is discrimination using algorithms.
6 years ago
Reply to
AlgorithmicAnalyst
Agreed. There is an old book, still available, entitled “How to Lie with Statistics” by Huff, published in ’54.
Statistics are like a prostitute. You can do with them practically anything you wish.
6 years ago
Reply to
Drew the Infidel
I used to have a friend who had a masters in mathematics. He used to call statistics the whore of mathematics.
6 years ago
Reply to
AlgorithmicAnalyst
Gulag is big into High Performance Computing and pattern matching (even including image data). What exactly they’re using the tech for has never been explained but I can’t imagine censorship having nothing to do w/it.
6 years ago
UK: Social media giants allow jihadis to act with impunity, fail to report a single one to cops
MAR 7, 2018 10:19 AM BY ROBERT SPENCER 12 COMMENTS
‘They have successfully encouraged, directed, enabled and promoted terrorist attacks with the click of a mouse or the tap of a screen.
At the same time, they’re cracking down hard on those who oppose jihad terror and their far-Left agenda.
Facebook, Google tell Congress they’re fighting extremist content
https://www.cnbc.com/2018/01/17/facebook-google-tell-congress-how-theyre-fighting-extremist-content.html
Under the guise of fighting extremism, they’re censoring conservatives and ignoring ISIS, HAMAS…….
6 years ago
NEVER understood this dumbass Jew. Without principles of conservatism, neither his company, Googlue, Youtubed would have ever got off the ground.
One day, these companies will pay for it.
6 years ago
Facebook needs to be regulated.
6 years ago
Reply to
Dagonet
Focus on the achievable and achieve it. Hold your congressmen accountable for action.
6 years ago
This F-ing thieving (Winklevoss twins), backstabbing jew will never grow up and he’s destroying freedom of speech (our Constitution). Send him to Mecca or Tehran.
6 years ago
Where is JEFF SESSIONS on this??????
6 years ago
The online venues are beginning to be just like the print media where the default narrative regarding all matters Trump is the negative. The only reasons I buy a “fake newspaper” anymore is for the crossword puzzle and the obituaries, and I am beginning to question why they see fit to drag the dead into it.
6 years ago
For pete’s sake people, dump Facebook. Let their readership drop substantially and see how they react.
6 years ago
Fox News has been clogging up my timeline. I’m glad because I can actually see news from the Salem slate of websites now, as well as offline friends.
6 years ago
when I see Zukcerburg face I want to punch him
6 years ago
ButtBook tailspin.
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6 years ago
If you still use fakebook you are part of the problem.
D
6 years ago
This what anti free speech fascist do
6 years ago
I wanna choke suckerburger every time I see him in a t-shirt or hoodie………..dress the part, “CEO”.
6 years ago
I remember Ms. Geller wrote an article quoting her father’s opinion that nothing is forever, even the USA. And who can’t see the wisdom of those words now?
6 years ago
There is a free newsletter called InvestYourself that has had several good articles on Facebook, Google and the ugly story on how Zuckerberg got Facebook – it was stolen from the company that invented the code for it. Sign up and read the articles, the article about Zuckerberg and Facebook was about a month ago….Here is an excerpt from a recent issue:
Michael Snyder is a pro-Trump candidate for Congress in Idaho’s First Congressional District. If you would like to help him win on May 15th, you can donate online, by Paypal or by sending a check made out to “Michael Snyder for Congress” to P.O. Box 1136 – Bonners Ferry, ID 83805. To learn more, please visit MichaelSnyderForCongress.com.
Let me grab a few paragraphs that he’s penned lately about the “purge” against anything conservative:
In recent weeks, we have witnessed an unprecedented social media crackdown on conservative voices. YouTube’s war with Alex Jones has gotten the most attention, but literally hundreds of conservative content creators have had their accounts penalized, suspended or deleted by YouTube, Facebook, Twitter and other social media giants. There appears to be a coordinated effort to target conservative viewpoints, because similar voices on the left are not receiving equal treatment. If I win my race for Congress on May 15th, I am going to make fighting this sort of censorship one of my top priorities once I get to Washington.
How would you feel if you spent years creating videos and building up a subscriber base only to have all of that work wiped out in a single moment by a leftist YouTube moderator?
Sadly, that is precisely what is happening to dozens upon dozens of conservatives right now…
Writing for Polygon.com, Julia Alexander noted that, “Whenever YouTube institutes a tougher moderation stance, a common debate emerges over censorship-especially from notable conservative voices.”Specifically, she explained, “Questions over YouTube’s moderators and the power they hold were raised this week after notable conservative pundits, gun advocates, conspiracy channels and other right-wing voices received community strikes or were locked out of their channels. Creators who are affected by lockouts, strikes and suspensions are referring to it as the ‘YouTube Purge,’ claiming that YouTube is purging all right-wing or pro-gun content. The move follows the company’s attempt to clamp down on dangerous content following the Parkland shooting.”
As we reported over the weekend, YouTube terminated the entire Health Ranger video channel on Saturday, wiping out over 1,700 videos and approximately 350K+ subscribers. This was done, of course, as part of the YouTube left-wing PURGE now being carried out against non-establishment speakers who are being targeted for political reasons.
YouTube’s censorship rampage also wiped out all my videos on the donkeys I rescued, the range-free chickens I raise and even the beautiful ice crystals I captured on video over the winter. In its censorship sweep, YouTube is obliterating thousands of videos without cause, violating the civil rights of informative internet users and functioning as a criminal techno-cartel.
There is absolutely no reason for YouTube to do this. Mike Adams has literally helped millions of people through his work, and I am urging all of my readers to contact YouTube and demand that they restore his channel immediately.
Of course YouTube is not the only one that is cracking down on conservative voices. Here are a few examples of what Facebook has been doing…
Young Cons: This very popular conservative news site had millions of daily readers during the recent election, and the site received nearly all its traffic from Facebook (Lesson: Never put all your marketing eggs in one basket). Facebook has been increasingly censoring Young Cons stories since 2016; now the site struggles mightily and regularly switches domains in order to maintain traffic.
SaraPalin.com: At one point the former GOP VP nominee and Alaska governor’s website was serving up stories to her four million Facebook followers, but she, too, had to begin switching domains in order to maintain traffic.
Right Wing News: This site grew to massive proportions over the past few years, in large part thanks to its meteoric popularity on Facebook. During one week in 2015, the site’s Facebook page reached 133 million people. The site was driving about the same amount of web traffic as some of the biggest newspapers in the U.S. But since 2016 Facebook began blocking traffic to the site; its owner, John Hawkins, announced he would shut it down in January (it’s still online but the content is not regularly updated).
Independent Journal Review: This, too, was a large conservative news and information source, but because it was overly reliant on Facebook traffic, the site had to terminate a number of its employees last week, leaving the fate of the Millennial-focused site in doubt.
If you don’t stand up when you see others being censored, then please don’t complain when the social media giants censor you as well. I think that Dr. Michael Brown made this point exceedingly well in his most recent article…
First they came for Infowars, and I did not speak out-because I found them offensive.
Then they came for Geller and Spencer, and I did not speak out-because I found them obnoxious.
Then they came for Prager U, and I did not speak out-because I found them opinionated.
Then they came for a host of others, and I did not speak out-because I have my own life to live.
Then they came for me-and there was no one left to speak for me.
This is why we need good liberty-minded people to run for office all over the nation.
If we do not fight back, this sort of oppression is only going to get worse. Right at this moment I am engaged in an extremely tight race for a seat in the U.S. House of Representatives, and if you want me to go to Washington and defend our free speech rights, please consider making a contribution because we desperately need it right now…
Bob Again…So to those of you who wrote me to say I was exaggerating and that you tube and the others really haven’t been targeting right leaning speech, maybe Michaels notes will help you understand. Or maybe this:
Dennis Prager is a radio host, and he’s suing Youtube/google for censoring his video’s. Here’s some of the charges:
LOS ANGELES – Prager University (PragerU) has filed a lawsuit in the United States District Court for the Northern District of California to stop Google and YouTube from unlawfully censoring its educational videos and discriminating against its right to freedom of speech.
The lawsuit cites more than 50 PragerU videos which have either been “restricted” or “demonetized” by Google/YouTube. The PragerU videos range on various subjects presenting a conservative point of view, and include a video by noted Harvard Law professor Alan Dershowitz on the founding of Israel. PragerU previously compiled a complete list of their restricted videos here, which includes: “Why America Must Lead,” “The Ten Commandments: Do Not Murder,” “Why Did America Fight the Korean War,” and “The World’s Most Persecuted Minority: Christians.”
In correspondence cited in the filing, Google/YouTube made it clear that the censorship of certain videos was because they were deemed “inappropriate” for younger audiences.
“Watch any one of our videos and you’ll immediately realize that Google/YouTube censorship is entirely ideologically driven. For the record, our videos are presented by some of the finest minds in the Western world, including four Pulitzer Prize winners, former prime ministers, and professors from the most prestigious universities in America,” stated PragerU founder Dennis Prager.
Prager added, “They are engaging in an arbitrary and capricious use of their ‘restricted mode’ and ‘demonetization’ to restrict non-left political thought. Their censorship is profoundly damaging because Google and YouTube own and control the largest forum for public participation in video-based speech in not only California, but the United States, and the world.”
There it is folks. Right in your face. The globalist elites want to control what you see and hear, and they have the infrastructure to shut off dissenting views. This is ugly stuff folks. There is indeed a war going on, and 90% of the population doesn’t see it. Make sure you do.
6 years ago
If you cannot get participation legimately, cheat. It is the only way liberals can win anything, including elections.
