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Obama Pressures Facebook to Censor News; Zuckerberg Complies and Crushes Trump on Facebook

 

American Thinker: Facebook has caved to Democrat political pressure and is censoring newsfeeds on users’ pages, as Mark Zuckerberg explains, for their own good.  The progressives at Facebook have gone nuclear.

We built Facebook to help people stay connected and bring us closer together with the people that matter to us. That’s why we’ve always put friends and family at the core of the experience. Research shows that strengthening our relationships improves our well-being and happiness.  But recently we’ve gotten feedback from our community that public content — posts from businesses, brands and media — is crowding out the personal moments that lead us to connect more with each other.

Cutting through the Orwellian talk of connecting us together and ‘feedback from our community,’ this is an entirely political story.  After Donald Trump’s election, Zuckerberg came under tremendous pressure to use Facebook for the Democrats’ Resistance.  All the bludgeons were brought out – Russian bots, fake news, that Facebook handed an unearned victory to Trump.  And the greatest of all, the threat of government regulation.

At first Zuckerberg resisted the Resistance, but then he caved suddenly, following a personal intervention by Obama.

The results of Obama’s intervention are in:

Engagement on Donald Trump’s Facebook posts has dropped by approximately 45 percent since the platform introduced a new algorithm change, following a year of pressure from left-wing employees and the mainstream media for “allowing” the President to win the 2016 general election.

The most interesting aspect of the progressives’ victory has received almost no press.  It was Barack Hussein Obama himself who knuckled Zuckerberg, in a ‘chance’ encounter at an anti-poverty gathering of the glitterati, in Peru.   Obama openly told Zuckerberg he had to do something about the next presidential race.

The Washington Post reported last fall:

Nine days after Facebook chief executive Mark Zuckerberg dismissed as “crazy” the idea that fake news on his company’s social network played a key role in the U.S. election, President Barack Obama pulled the youthful tech billionaire aside and delivered what he hoped would be a wake-up call. MORE HERE

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11 Comments on Obama Pressures Facebook to Censor News; Zuckerberg Complies and Crushes Trump on Facebook

  1. Since the entire US criminal justice system chooses to ignore the HERD of elephants that is all the known crimes of the IRS, the Clintons, obola’s State Department, election officials of multiple states, HUD, the EPA, etc etc.
    are we to understand that it is up to us, The People, to “clean the stables’?

  2. I have many conservative principles regarding limited government.

    I also have others regarding the fucking of people who deserve it.

    Regulate Fakebook as a utility and demand that they pay their users for selling their private information.

    Break Facebook into little bitty chapters with a prologue by James Woods and an Epilogue by Mark Steyn.

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