By Judi McLeod ——Bio and Archives--May 29, 2020
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Hypocritical Facebook weasel Mark Zuckerberg went after competitor Twitter today—and was handed the prime opportunity by no less than Fox News.
Imagine the CEO of the social media that bans conservative voices on Facebook having the gall to say that “private companies shouldn’t be the arbiter of truth”.
That’s exactly what Facebook has been doing all along out in the cyberspace world.“And they will, therefore, restrict our reach to our own audience. Even people who have chosen to follow our page will be deliberately prevented from seeing our posts.”Facebook deserves the same treatment President Trump’s executive order on media bias will enforce onTwitter. Activist Social Media, coached by desperado Democrats and now providing digital personalities to progressives, is well on its way to make Election 2020 a total mail-in event. The mail-in vote, headed up by Michelle Obama, is the only means left for the Impeachment-failed Democrats to take down a duly elected president who bypassed Barack Obama candidate Hillary Clinton in 2016. “Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg has called out Twitter for attaching a fact check to a tweet from President Trump, telling Fox News' Dana Perino that privately-owned digital platforms should not act as the "arbiter of truth.” (Fox News, May 27, 2020)
"We have a different policy than, I think, Twitter on this," Zuckerberg told "The Daily Briefing" in an interview scheduled to air in full on Thursday.”The many thrown off Facebook for posting Conservative messages don’t just think—but know—otherwise, Zuck! Why would Fox News give the Facebook CEO an interview the same day of the president’s social media executive order? Mighty Fox NEVER gets Facebook-banned. Meanwhile, this is the propaganda push Fox gave to the slippery-as-an-eel Facebook owner who pontificated:
"I just believe strongly that Facebook shouldn't be the arbiter of truth of everything that people say online," he added. "Private companies probably shouldn't be, especially these platform companies, shouldn't be in the position of doing that.” (Fox News) "I just believe strongly that Facebook shouldn't be the arbiter of truth of everything that people say online.”
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“Zuckerberg made the comment after President Trump warned social media giants that the federal government could “strongly regulate” or “close them down” if they continue to “silence conservative voices.” "I have to understand what they actually would intend to do," Zuckerberg said in response to the president's warning. "But in general, I think a government choosing to to censor a platform because they're worried about censorship doesn't exactly strike me as the the right reflex there." “Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey responded late Wednesday, saying: "We'll continue to point out incorrect or disputed information about elections globally. And we will admit to and own any mistakes we make. "This does not make us an 'arbiter of truth'," Dorsey continued. "Our intention is to connect the dots of conflicting statements and show the information in dispute so people can judge for themselves. More transparency from us is critical so folks can clearly see the why behind our actions.” “On Tuesday, Twitter slapped a fact check notification on one of Trump's tweets for the first time, cautioning users that despite the president’s claims about mail-in voting, “fact checkers” say there is “no evidence” that mail-in voting would increase fraud risks and that “experts say mail-in ballots are very rarely linked to voter fraud.
“Facebook has faced criticism in the past for failing to address controversial content on the platform, but it appears Zuckerberg has no plans to change company policy. Chief Operating Officer Sheryl Sandberg expressed a similar sentiment during a 2017 CNBC interview, asserting that the tech giant does not intend "to be the publisher and we definitely don’t want to be the arbiter of the truth.” “We don’t think that’s appropriate for us," Sandberg said at the time.“Facebook, and Google have been censoring and editorializing for years under the absurd pretext that they were just enforcing their own “community guidelines,” not weighing in on the merits of what their users were saying or embedding their own biases into the site’s rules. Who writes and enforces these community guidelines? People like Yoel Roth, Twitter’s Head of Site Integrity, whose anti-Trump tweets from 2016 and 2017 resurfaced recently. Roth called Trump and his officials “ACTUAL NAZIS,” compared Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell to a “bag of farts,” and implied that Trump supporters are racists. (Federalist, May 28, 2020)
“Twitter hasn’t just waded into politics in an overt way, it has exposed the fiction at the heart of what social media companies are: they’re not neutral platforms, they’re biased, and like their peer organizations in the mainstream media, they’re overwhelmingly biased against conservatives and in favor of progressives. “If Twitter wants to start fact-checking everything that gets posted by influential people, fine. But there’s no way it can do so in an even-handed or fair manner, and no way it can continue to insist on Section 230 protection.Meanwhile, as for President Trump’s executive order on social media bias, “Go get ‘em, Mr. President!”
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