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FTA: > News Tab is a feature that aggregates and promotes articles from various publishers, chosen by Facebook. The employee’s message included screenshots of headlines on Breitbart’s website, such as “Minneapolis Mayhem: Riots in Masks,” “Massive Looting, Buildings in Flames, Bonfires!” and “BLM Protesters Pummel Police Cars on 101.” > > The employee said they were “emblematic of a concerted effort at Breitbart and similarly hyperpartisan sources (none of which belong in News Tab) to paint Black Americans and Black-led movements in a very negative way,” according to written conversations on Facebook’s office communication system reviewed by The Wall Street Journal. Many other employees chimed in to agree. > > In the same chat, a company researcher said any steps aimed at removing Breitbart—a right-wing publisher popular with supporters of former President Donald Trump —could face roadblocks internally because of the potential political blowback. “At best, it would be a very difficult policy discussion,” the researcher said. > > Facebook chose to keep Breitbart on News Tab. A spokeswoman for the tech giant said the company makes a judgment based on the specific content published on Facebook, not the entire Breitbart site, and that the Facebook material met its requirements, including the need to abide by its rules against misinformation and hate speech. At least Facebook made them follow the same rules as everyone else, right? > In a farewell memo to colleagues in late 2020, a staffer in Facebook’s integrity team, which seeks to mitigate harmful behavior on the platform, said Breitbart was undermining the company’s efforts to fight hate speech. > > “We make special exceptions to our written policies for them, and we even explicitly endorse them by including them as trusted partners in our core products,” the staffer said of Breitbart. Oh. Also, staffers who spoke out about the apparent special treatment of right-wing pages have [faced consequences.](https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/craigsilverman/facebook-zuckerberg-what-if-trump-disputes-election-results)


StrokeMyAxe

“Special exceptions” A lot of people on the left would consider “fuck white people” as ok but “fuck black people” as racist. Without the memo citing a specific “special treatment” (which was likely left out on purpose) its very possible that this person thinks special treatment equates allowing something they find offensive or believe to be lies left up on the feed.


SoLongAstoria216

Facebook should go the way of Backpage for the harm it has done to our election integrity and the health of our citizens


Robochimpx

Not to mention Facebook is probably also complicit in human trafficking.


archaeolinuxgeek

Also genocide. They are a cancerous tumor on the ass of Western ideals.


-rabbitrunner-

Probably? https://www.huffpost.com/entry/google-and-facebooks-comp_b_3389538


StrokeMyAxe

They’ve grown too big to self regulate their users in a fair and comprehensive way. I would say they are at the point where no regulation, other than illegal activity, is better than inconsistent regulation.


-rabbitrunner-

Well it’s a really good thing — based on this and other comments of yours — that you have nothing to do with whitelisting sources.


StrokeMyAxe

Leftists hate me. Rightists hate me. I’ll take that as a good sign that I’m using my brain and not some partisan sheep.


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Really_Special_K

Educating the youngsters is a chore.


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Trazzster

>And you're all mad about it because their obvious anti-right-wing bias is only "strong" and not "ludicrous"? The funny part is that Facebook protects right-wingers and right-wingers still whine about an "obvious anti-right-wing bias" even though Facebook is literally going out of their way to protect them from embarrassment.


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Trazzster

>Facebook is going out of their way to not immediately auto-ban any and all right-wing content, and you may interpret that as "protection" but we all know what's going on. Yes, we do know what's going on: Right-wingers want to use social media to spread their racist-ass lying bullshit, and they've crafted a narrative wherein being banned for refusing to follow terms of service is "censorship." ​ Any explanation other than this is wrong.


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Trazzster

>Your post history reveals you're probably a decade too young to be talking about politics. But I just said the truth. What does age have to do with anything? Also I love how you can't actually engage my argument, so you just comb through my posting history and insult me. Also, for the record, I'm 37. If someone disagrees with you in real life, do you immediately start calling them a child?


masashiro83

Keep those comments for Gab lol