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Re: Mark Zuckerberg Announces Meta Will Dump 'Politically Biased' Fact-Checkers
« Reply #25 on: January 11, 2025, 09:41:41 am »
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Biden calls Zuckerberg ditching Facebook fact-checkers 'shameful'
"And you know when you have millions of people going online and reading this stuff, I think it's really shameful."
Libby Emmons
The Post Millennial

Meta founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg has been making a clear pivot to the political right in recent months and this week announced plans to change the fact-checking component on both Instagram and Facebook. Outgoing President Joe Biden was asked about it on Friday and he complained about the move, calling it "shameful."

Biden claimed that Zuckerberg was "walking away from fact-checking" by removing the third party fact-checkers that had been implemented at Facebook in 2020 and shifting to an X-style Community Notes system.

"As well as not reporting anything having to do with uh, um discrimination regarding the uh TPS, I find to be just contrary to American, justice, American the way we talk about one another," Biden said. TPS stands for "temporary protected status," the status that is bestowed upon immigrants from countries deemed too unsafe for them to return to.

"Telling the truth matters, I mean it's a, I know I'm on national television but you all are local reporters and national reporters. I'm not at this is not a real question but what do you think? You think it doesn't matter? That they let be printed? Where millions of people read it, things that are simply not true? I mean I wanna know what that's all about. It's just completely contrary to everything America's about. We want to tell the truth. We haven't always done it in our nation but we want to tell the truth," he went on, in a somewhat confused manner.

"And the idea," he laughed, "that a billionaire can buy something and say 'by the way, from this point on, we're not gonna fact-check anything.' And you know when you have millions of people going online and reading this stuff, I think it's really shameful." ...
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Re: Mark Zuckerberg Announces Meta Will Dump 'Politically Biased' Fact-Checkers
« Reply #26 on: January 11, 2025, 09:51:04 am »
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What's really shameful is that WE allowed Joe Biden to cheat his way into the Whitehouse and remain there for four years!
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Re: Mark Zuckerberg Announces Meta Will Dump 'Politically Biased' Fact-Checkers
« Reply #27 on: January 13, 2025, 08:42:33 am »
Wait, what?

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Meghan Markle and Prince Harry release statement saying they are ‘Deeply Concerned’ over META removing fact-checkers and ending censorship. The couple released a 638 word statement saying removing the censorship ‘directly undermines free speech.’
“Allowing more abuse and normalising hate speech serves to silence speech and expression, not foster it.”
Source: Daily Mail
7:24 AM · Jan 13, 2025
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Re: Mark Zuckerberg Announces Meta Will Dump 'Politically Biased' Fact-Checkers
« Reply #28 on: January 13, 2025, 09:03:50 am »
We can’t let Mark Zuckerberg pass the buck on Meta’s censorship
By Miranda Devine   
Published Jan. 12, 2025, 10:58 p.m. ET
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No, Mark Zuckerberg doesn’t get to go on Joe Rogan’s podcast and pretend he’s a free speech champion as if there were nothing he could have done to stop the censorship at Facebook that rigged the 2020 election and probably cost lives during the pandemic.

The wanksta-lite makeover can’t hide Zuck’s sins, from throttling The Post’s Hunter Biden laptop story before the 2020 election to deplatforming a sitting president, Donald Trump, to suppressing COVID-19 dissent. ...

But why did he stay quiet when the landmark censorship case Missouri v. Biden (now Murthy v. Missouri) was being heard by the Supreme Court? His testimony would have changed everything and shown conclusively that the Biden administration had systematically, illegally subverted the First Amendment.

It was only when House Judiciary chairman Jim Jordan started subpoenaing documents that Zuck fessed up that Facebook’s censorship of The Post was prompted by a specific warning from the FBI “about a potential Russian disinformation operation about the Biden family and Burisma in the lead up to the 2020 election.” ...
https://nypost.com/2025/01/12/opinion/we-cant-let-mark-zuckerberg-pass-the-buck-on-metas-censorship/
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Re: Mark Zuckerberg Announces Meta Will Dump 'Politically Biased' Fact-Checkers
« Reply #29 on: January 13, 2025, 09:13:38 am »
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Zuckerberg is a liar! two days ago, long after he made this announcement, I tried to get FB account reinstated but shortly received a "Sorry but your posting history does not meet our community standards" message.

(I was permanently banned three years ago  for posting links to United States government studies done after the Spanish Flu epidemic on the efficy of masks.)
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Re: Mark Zuckerberg Announces Meta Will Dump 'Politically Biased' Fact-Checkers
« Reply #30 on: January 15, 2025, 03:10:28 pm »
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"Facebook was a willing accomplice in the Democrat-fueled war on free speech. No amount of Zuckerberg’s revisionist retelling can erase the evidence that Facebook eagerly participated in the Biden administration’s scheme to silence its political enemies, dissenters, and publications like The Federalist." https://thefederalist.com/2025/01/13/zuckerbergs-rebrand-of-facebooks-role-in-biden-censorship-scheme-refuted-in-facebook-files/
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Re: Mark Zuckerberg Announces Meta Will Dump 'Politically Biased' Fact-Checkers
« Reply #31 on: January 21, 2025, 09:46:34 am »
Mark Zuckerberg and META are tracking every single site you go to OFF Facebook and Instagram. It’s called, “Your activities off META technologies” and they’re keeping a log.

https://twitter.com/WallStreetApes/status/1881213495615815976
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Re: Mark Zuckerberg Announces Meta Will Dump 'Politically Biased' Fact-Checkers
« Reply #32 on: January 21, 2025, 10:23:11 am »
Quote from: mountaineer on January 21, 2025, 09:46:34 am
Mark Zuckerberg and META are tracking every single site you go to OFF Facebook and Instagram. It’s called, “Your activities off META technologies” and they’re keeping a log.

https://twitter.com/WallStreetApes/status/1881213495615815976

It's why I'm suddenly seeing information on Sciatic Nerve pain and and recurring bladder cancer tumors.
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Re: Mark Zuckerberg Announces Meta Will Dump 'Politically Biased' Fact-Checkers
« Reply #33 on: January 21, 2025, 03:18:44 pm »
Quote from: mountaineer on January 21, 2025, 09:46:34 am
Mark Zuckerberg and META are tracking every single site you go to OFF Facebook and Instagram. It’s called, “Your activities off META technologies” and they’re keeping a log.

https://twitter.com/WallStreetApes/status/1881213495615815976
Let em track away, it’s my dogs page, I never had one, and since my dog passed away some four plus years ago it doesn’t get used anymore.
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Re: Mark Zuckerberg Announces Meta Will Dump 'Politically Biased' Fact-Checkers
« Reply #34 on: January 24, 2025, 03:19:35 pm »
We need AI assistants that go and randomly surf the Web creating huge amounts of garbage information for them to track... To the point that it all just becomes noise with nothing left to identify you in any meaningful way...
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