Breitbart covers Mr Facebook

Lots of stories today about the Senate Committee on Facebook. I bet the MSM ignored most of these.

http://www.breitbart.com/tech/2018/04/10/ted-cruz-grills-zuckerberg-on-facebook-censorship-who-moderates-your-moderators/

While other senators on today’s committee on Facebook panicked about “hate speech” and “fake news,” Texas Senator Ted Cruz, alone, grilled Zuckerberg on an issue that matters to voters: censorship of dissident voices and political bias at Facebook.

“In addition to that, Facebook has initially shut down the ‘Chick-fil-A appreciation day page,’ has blocked the post of a Fox News reporter, has blocked over two dozen Catholic pages, and most recently has blocked the Trump supporters Diamond & Silk’s page – with 1.2 million Facebook followers – after determining that their content and brand were ‘unsafe for the community’.”

Pressed by Cruz, Zuckerberg also conceded that he did not know the political orientation of the “15-20,000 people” who work on content review at Facebook.

http://www.breitbart.com/tech/2018/04/10/mark-zuckerberg-dodges-defining-hate-speech-during-senate-hearing/

Senator Ben Sasse (R-NE) questioned Mark Zuckerberg today on the definition of hate speech as the Facebook CEO discussed the social media platform’s efforts to crack down on certain content on their platform.

“Forty percent of Americans under age 35 tell pollsters they think the First Amendment is dangerous because you may use your freedom to hurt somebody else’s feelings. Guess what? There’s some really passionately held views about abortion on this panel today, can you imagine a world where you might decide that pro-lifers are prohibited from speaking about their abortion views on your platform?” said Sasse.

Senator Sasse replied; “I wouldn’t want you to leave here today and think there’s sort of a unified view in the Congress that you should be policing more and more speech, I think violence has no place on your platform, sex traffickers and human traffickers have no place on your platform, but vigorous debates — adults need to engage in vigorous debates.”

http://www.breitbart.com/tech/2018/04/10/dozens-obama-alumni-now-senior-facebook-employees/

During his recent apology tour, Mark Zuckerberg notably failed to mention recent revelations about the Obama 2012 campaign’s exploitation of the platform’s weak pre-2014 data protections to harvest masses of data from non-consenting users. The number of ex-Obama staffers on his payroll, according to Linkedin, might explain why.

In the wake of the Cambridge Analytica story, Davidsen made another bombshell admission on social media — that Facebook representatives visited the Obama campaign offices after the 2012 election and told them they were allowed to get away with it because “they were on their side.”