"Facebook Betrayed America"

The New Republic is not happy with Team Zuck. And they are swinging for the fences: the allegations don't stop at treason, but include also complicity in genocide.

6 comments:

Christopher B said...

They're mostly upset FB hasn't done more to deplatform conservatives.

Grim said...

I notice that drew by far the most column inches, in a post that begins with "Treason! Genocide! Lying to Congress!"

MikeD said...

And I love the claim that shadowbans on other platforms is unproven. Okay... unproven. I see.

Grim said...

In fact, the claim is that there isn't any evidence, which is stronger than the claim that the evidence isn't conclusive. That's just flat wrong: I've seen Uncle Jimbo's evidence of tampering with his Twitter account, and some others he's working with. There's very clear evidence. I would even go as far as "proof."

E Hines said...

The NYT is on about this, too. Frankly, convenient as the pieces are to my views of Facebook, neither The New Republic nor NYT has any credibility; I discount their stuff.

Eric Hines

Texan99 said...

I just caught some TV news during lunch. After watching a 5-10-minute piece on FB's woes, I couldn't grasp a single fact about what FB was supposed to have done wrong this time. There was a lot of talk about how FB isn't doing enough, needs to get past its dream of a Wild-West freedom absent guardrails, needs to gain confidence, etc. I think this was CNBC. One interviewer launched a lengthy incoherent question prompting a guest to explain from 10,000 feet something about truth and the future. The guest duly responded with more platitudes about how time would tell. I read the piece you linked here hoping it would explain what the NYT is excited about this week, as I have no intention of reading a NYT piece. I'm still confused. While acting "doe-eyed" before Congress, Zuckerberg nevertheless hired evil political operatives who pointed out some kind of political agenda against FB, maybe originating in part from Soros? I particularly enjoyed how FB failed to ensure that its site was safer and less toxic, on the pretext that if it did so conservatives would advance baseless and evidence-free claims of discrimination. I hope Zuckerberg is learning something from all this.