[ April 23, 2024 ]
Mark Zuckerberg, in a recent interview with Vox, said his new system for Facebook is aimed at siphoning out the fake media from the real — the “broadly trusted” from the untrustworthy.
And you know what that means, don’t you?
It means Facebook is about to start a strict censorship program that will no doubt leave conservative voices in the dust.
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From Breitbart:
In his recent interview with the far-left online publication Vox, Mark Zuckerberg explained Facebook’s new system of favoring “broadly trusted” news sources, via a mechanism designed to favor established outlets and crush new media.
Facebook introduced its new system in January, and the results were immediately apparent. Facebook traffic to establishment outlets including CNN and NBC soared upwards, while traffic to conservative outlets fell. Facebook engagement (likes, shares, and comments) also fell across multiple new media outlets, including those on the right and the left. Facebook engagement on President Trump’s posts fell by 45 per cent.
In his Vox interview, Mark Zuckerberg explained these changes as neutrally as he could, talking about providing a more “meaningful experience” for Facebook users. But despite tamely couching his words, the truth slipped out — Facebook is going to act like a publisher, with a view on what counts as “quality news,” and make judgments about the accuracy and reliability of news publications.
Zuckerberg outlined three categories of “fake news” — spammers, state actors, and “real media outlets who are saying what they think is true but have varying levels of accuracy or trustworthiness.”
Zuckerberg then explained Facebook’s methodology for determining a “trusted” news source. As Breitbart News previously reported, the method is designed to favor establishment media.
“This year, we’ve rolled out a number of changes to News Feed that try to boost in the ranking broadly trusted news sources” said Zuckerberg. “We’ve surveyed people across the whole community and asked them whether they trust different news sources.”
“Take the Wall Street Journal or New York Times. Even if not everyone reads them, the people who don’t read them typically still think they’re good, trustworthy journalism. Whereas if you get down to blogs that may be on more of the fringe, they’ll have their strong supporters, but people who don’t necessarily read them often don’t trust them as much.”
Zuckerberg then explained how his company will try to help out the establishment media by helping them attract paying subscribers.
“So I do think a big responsibility that we have is to help support high-quality journalism. And that’s not just the big traditional institutions, but a big part of what I actually think about when I’m thinking about high-quality journalism is local news. And I think that there are almost two different strategies in terms of how you address that.”
“For the larger institutions, and maybe even some of the smaller ones as well, subscriptions are really a key point on this. I think a lot of these business models are moving toward a higher percentage of subscriptions, where the people who are getting the most value from you are contributing a disproportionate amount to the revenue. And there are certainly a lot of things that we can do on Facebook to help people, to help these news organizations, drive subscriptions. And that’s certainly been a lot of the work that we’ve done and we’ll continue doing.”
By making editorial judgments about what counts as “quality” news, Facebook has shifted from a neutral platform to a publisher with an editorial opinion. As Sen. Ted Cruz explained to representatives of the tech giants in January, this undermines the case for continued legal immunity under Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act, which exempts online platforms from legal liability for content posted by their users.
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34 Comments
6 years ago
End Facebook!
This is nothing more than CENSORSHIP!
Other than just talking about it, does scumbag Cruz have any plans to CHANGE that?
6 years ago
Good, the more customers that are driven away from face book, the better it is for alternative sites.
6 years ago
I’d love to see the algorithm he will use to implement this, as well as reference data used to determine what should be censored.
6 years ago
Mark Zuckerberg, stealer of concept of FB from his fellow students (twin brothers asked for zuckerberg’s help)
6 years ago
Reply to
Dagonet
Bingo! 🙂 (forgot the name) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Winklevoss_twins
6 years ago
who gives a rats ass? if you have to use facebook for navel-gazing, you deserve what you get
na·vel-gaz·ing
ˈnāvəl ɡāziNG/Submit
noun
self-indulgent or excessive contemplation of oneself or a single issue, at the expense of a wider view.
“he lapsed into his customary navel-gazing”
6 years ago
OT
https://www.jihadwatch.org/2018/04/germany-muslim-migrant-screaming-allahu-akbar-stabs-man-throws-beer-bottles-at-bystanders-smashes-windows ‘migrant’, better invader, ‘… Indeed, the disbeliever are EVER to you a clear enemy.’ https://quran.com/4/100-101
6 years ago
… Zuckerberg outlined three categories of “fake news” …
*****
-> God of fake news, ‘Is(s)lam 4:89 belongs(!!) to Germany, UNdoubtedly.’—‘Angela Merkel, the worst Chancellor of Germany since Adolf Hitler’ jihadwatch.org
6 years ago
“As Breitbart News previously reported, the method is designed to favor establishment media.” There it is……His admission that they are the ‘New Pravda.’ ‘What we say is truth. Every one else will be crushed.’
6 years ago
fascism to satanism https://8ch.net/qresearch/res/884810.html#885429
6 years ago
If he thinks that the average leftist will actually pay for his services then he is deluded. Socialism is about someone else paying for you, not you yourself. Remove the welfare bludgers, the students on supposed student loans(which will never be paid back) and the fake disabled and there will be no antifa and very few Left left.
6 years ago
“Section 230…” FB is legally exempt from content posted by it’s users.
For this reason, FB can and will continue to censor content. *uckerberg is talking but he isn’t saying anything except “business as usual” at FB. Oh, and of course, he’ll continue to work to make (more) money from it. Maybe Nisam should’ve gone to FB instead of YouTube.
F- *uckerberg.
6 years ago
Why are people still on Facebook? Its publically announcing its going to promote propaganda from the MSM. Wake up people!!!
6 years ago
Yep, Facebook has shifted from a neutral platform to a publisher with an editorial opinion. As Ben Shapiro suggested in a recent podcast, this opens Facebook to lawsuits for libel and copyright infringement.
Get the popcorn!
6 years ago
How do we start our own CONSERVATIVE alternative?
6 years ago
Laughing. What’s new? We’ve been censored for a long time.. our comments have disappeared even as we’re writing them.I know that FBs CEO is Jewish.. I would like to think he would be more open minded and neuteral.he might just learn something.
What does it profit a man to gain the whole world and lose his soul.
6 years ago
Reply to
Ana Edwards
He’s a combination of the 2 worst types of people, money hungry and leftist.
6 years ago
It’s time for fb to die. Everyone with a sane mind should delete it.
6 years ago
Somebody please start an alternative social media that is open and liberal.
6 years ago
Reply to
Adler Augen
No “liberal” that is Communist and neonazi media. There are excellent media like Gellerreport, Breitbart, Robert Spencer and many many more.
FB is not necessary
6 years ago
What does that last sentence connote? Does it imply on-line bloggers WILL be held responsible for comments on their blogs? Flaccid Flower must be getting a woody over such a statement.
6 years ago
boycott Facebook so that they will go bankrupt. Tell the truth about their lies. Don´t support Zuckerberg and his wife in their “new project”
6 years ago
Yes, good. But if everybody boycott FB then it will be finished. There are other social media, better than FB
6 years ago
Wants to create millions of Facetards. The Nerogro obama also wants to create millions of Nerogroes.
What is it with the left? We independent patriots just want to be left alone and have no desire to become ‘tards of anybody.
6 years ago
Media outlets have to stop using FB in their comment sections. Stop advertising. There are lots of conservatives that are still using FB for comments.
6 years ago
Facebook is a monopoly and should be dismantled.
6 years ago
I don’t give my name or email.
6 years ago
Reply to
emma
It’s all part of signing up to fb, unless you’re a Vietnamese and you’re signing up from VN, but if your a European, they ask for positive ID.
6 years ago
Reply to
chris VN
Nope, I don’t give anything positive. it’s all fake and that’s the way it’s got to be. I give shitbook nothing. What I mean is, the email is made up, it’s not my real email.
6 years ago
Reply to
emma
I don’t know how long ago you signed up, or if it’s just here in VN??, but I can open a fb account using a fake VN’se name, no problem, but as soon as I try and open another account with a European name, they ask for ID. They won’t even let me change ” Christopher ” BACK to ” Chris “. And now you see a lot more people’s avatars using their FULL names, so I think things have changed in the last couple of years???.
6 years ago
Reply to
chris VN
We are not forced to give our real names in the UK, at least not yet. I have never been asked for ID to open an account.
6 years ago
Let’s just hope this comes back to bite him on his scrawny little arse!!!
