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Elon Musk Tweets Meme Blaming Facebook for U.S. Capitol Riot

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SpaceX and Tesla CEO Elon Musk has tweeted a meme that suggests Facebook is in part to blame for supporters of President Donald Trump storming the U.S. Capitol on Wednesday. . .

Musk shared an image of a man setting off a chain of white dominos, which is known as the Domino Effect or Slippery Slope meme. The image is used to signify how a seemingly insignificant event can go on to have big consequences.

Referring to Facebook’s origins in Facemash, a website that allowed students at Harvard to rate women’s looks, the text box beside the smallest domino reads: “A website to rate women on campus.”

The text box by the largest domino features a message from New York Times journalist Mark Leibovich on the newspaper’s live stream from Congress, reading: “The Capitol seems to be under the control of a man in a viking hat.”

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Democrat Calls on ‘Soldiers’ To Make Trump Supporters ‘Pay’

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Calling on “soldiers” of the left to “make them pay,” a Democratic state lawmaker delivered a threat to supporters of President Trump on Facebook Live.

Michigan state Rep. Cynthia Johnson prefaced her warning Tuesday with a wish that “I could be talking to y’all in a private room … but we’re public.”

“So this is just a warning to you Trumpers. Be careful, walk lightly, we ain’t playing with you. Enough of the shenanigans. Enough is enough,” she said, emphasizing every word.

“And for those of you who are soldiers, you know how to do it. Do it right, be in order, make them pay.” . . .

On Wednesday, Michigan House Speaker Lee Chatfield announced Johnson had been stripped of her committee assignments in response to her threats. (Read more from “Democrat Calls on ‘Soldiers’ To Make Trump Supporters ‘Pay'” HERE)

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Facebook Sued by 48 Attorneys General

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Forty-eight U.S. Attorneys General led by New York filed a lawsuit against Facebook Wednesday arguing that the social media giant violated antitrust law by engaging in anticompetitive practices through buying out smaller rivals. The group of state law enforcement executives were joined by the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) filing a separate lawsuit.

Both suits center on Facebook’s purchases of Instagram in 2012 and WhatsApp in 2014 for $1 billion and $19 billion respectively, while also targeting smaller firms. The acquisitions, plaintiffs allege, illegally stifled online competition. The FTC is seeking to force Facebook sell Instagram and WhatsApp.

“Facebook’s actions to entrench and maintain its monopoly deny consumers the benefits of competition,” said FTC Director of Bureau Competition Ian Conner. “Our aim is to roll back Facebook’s anticompetitive conduct and restore competition so that innovation and free competition can thrive.”

Facebook reins as the world’s dominant online networking giant boasting 2.7 billion monthly active users across Facebook, Messenger, Instagram, and WhatsApp, according to Yahoo Finance. (Read more from “Facebook Sued by 48 Attorneys General” HERE)

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DOJ Sues Facebook for Discrimination

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The Department of Justice on Thursday announced it has sued Facebook for discrimination against U.S. workers.

The tech giant with tens of thousands of employees, instead of hiring qualified and available U.S. residents for more than 2,600 jobs, or even considering them for jobs, “reserved for temporary visa holders” those positions.

The positions that were the subject of Facebook’s alleged discrimination against U.S. workers offered an average salary of $156,000, the DOJ reported.

The filing alleged, based on the department’s nearly two-year investigation, Facebook deliberately created a hiring system in which it denied “qualified U.S. workers a fair opportunity to learn about and apply for jobs that Facebook instead sought to channel to temporary visa holders Facebook wanted to sponsor for green cards,” the DOJ said.

“The Department of Justice’s lawsuit alleges that Facebook engaged in intentional and widespread violations of the law, by setting aside positions for temporary visa holders instead of considering interested and qualified U.S. workers,” Assistant Attorney General Eric S. Dreiband of the Civil Rights Division explained. “This lawsuit follows a nearly two-year investigation into Facebook’s practices and a ‘reasonable cause’ determination by the Justice Department’s Civil Rights Division. Our message to workers is clear: if companies deny employment opportunities by illegally preferring temporary visa holders, the Department of Justice will hold them accountable.” (Read more from “DOJ Sues Facebook for Discrimination” HERE)

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Facebook Wants to Help Biden Administration with Coronavirus Vaccine Response

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Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg has announced that the company is ready to help a potential Biden administration with its coronavirus vaccine response.

Mark Zuckerberg said in a livestreamed interview with Dr. Anthony Fauci that Facebook is trying to work with Joe Biden regarding how the social media giant can help a potential Biden administration with a response to the Chinese coronavirus. . .

“You and the rest of the government have an important job ahead,” Zuckerberg told Fauci during the interview.

“I know our team at Facebook has already reached out to the incoming administration to help with the COVID response in any way that we can,” continued Zuckerberg. “I’m sure there will be a few important things that we can do together.” (Read more from “Facebook Wants to Help Biden Administration with Coronavirus Vaccine Response” HERE)

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Mark Zuckerberg Reportedly Signed off on a Facebook Algorithm Change That Favored Established News Sites

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In the days following the US presidential election, Facebook made some emergency changes to its algorithm.

The New York Times reports the company changed the way it promoted and demoted content on people’s news feeds after employees noticed an alarming amount of misinformation spreading on the platform.

The change meant the algorithm assigned more importance to posts from established news organisations such as CNN, The New York Times, and NPR. This was based on an internal metric the company uses called “news ecosystem quality,” abbreviated to NEQ.

Publishers with a high NEQ benefitted from the change, while partisan but highly engaged pages, such as Breitbart and Occupy Democrats, were demoted.

Three people with knowledge of the matter told the Times that Facebook’s CEO Mark Zuckerberg personally signed off on the change. (Read more from “Mark Zuckerberg Reportedly Signed off on a Facebook Algorithm Change That Favored Established News Sites” HERE)

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Facebook Accused of Illegal Campaign Contribution to Biden

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Facebook has been accused in a complaint to the Federal Election Commission of illegally contributing some $50,000 to the campaign of Joe Biden and Democratic Sen. Gary Peters by censoring a truthful ad that criticized his support for the proposed Equality Act promoting transgenderism.

The social media company cited a third-party “fact-checker” that argued the ad “lacked context.” But even the fact-checker, Politifact, had to admit the ad was not in error.

The complaint by the American Principles Project seeks an immediate investigation into the censorship of its ad concerning the law that would allow boys to compete in girls sports and much more.

It also wants an investigation into “the in-kind contributions made by Respondent Facebook, Inc. to the campaign of Democrat U.S. Senator Gary Peters from Michigan, to the campaign of Joe Biden and to the Democrat Party, by reasons of its fact-checking services and its content suppressive adverse action taken against Complainant in this instance … or in the alternative its violation of duties of disclosure and reporting.”

Terry Schilling, executive director of the APP, said that by “censoring this ad on such a flimsy basis, and by allowing ads in favor of Democrats to run unfettered on its platform, Facebook materially contributed to the campaigns of Peters and Biden.” (Read more from “Facebook Accused of Illegal Campaign Contribution to Biden” HERE)

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Zuckerberg: FBI Warned Us To Be on the Lookout for a ‘Hack and Leak’ Op With ‘Trove of Docs’ Before the Election

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Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg told Congress Wednesday that the FBI warned him months ago that Facebook should be on “heightened alert” about “hack and leak operations” that could be part of a foreign disinformation campaign in the final weeks before the 2020 election.

The Facebook honcho made the remarks during a Senate Commerce Committee hearing where he testified alongside Google’s Sundar Pichai and Twitter’s Jack Dorsey.

“One of the threats that the FBI has alerted our company and the public to was the possibility of a hack and leak operation in the days or weeks leading up to this election,” Zuckerberg said. “So you had both public testimony from the FBI and in private meetings alerts that were given—at least to our company, I assume the others as well–that suggested we be on high alert and sensitivity that if a trove of documents appeared, that we should view that with suspicion that it might be part of a foreign manipulation attempt.”

The FBI has had the computer and hard drive of Joe Biden’s son Hunter Biden in its possession for almost a year.

In April of 2019, the younger Biden dropped three water-damaged Macbooks at a computer repair shop in Delaware owned by John Paul Mac Isaac. Isaac claims that in August, because the computers weren’t retrieved after 90 days, he was able to take legal possession and look inside. He said he was shocked to find troves of emails concerning the Bidens’ corrupt overseas business deals, as well as sexually explicit images on one of the laptops. (Read more from “Zuckerberg: FBI Warned Us To Be on the Lookout for a ‘Hack and Leak’ Op With ‘Trove of Docs’ Before the Election” HERE)

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Election Interference: Facebook Manually Censored Biden Corruption Bombshell

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A report published this week alleges that Facebook manually censored the New York Post bombshell story about Biden family corruption. According to the Guardian, Facebook moderators manually overrode the platform’s automatic processes to censor the Post, an effort that successfully censored about half of the engagement the article would have received, according to researchers.

According to a report by the Guardian, internal documents from Facebook suggest that the platform intentionally restricted the distribution of a New York Post report that allegedly revealed ties between Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden and a Ukrainian energy company. The suppression was not automatic or based on Facebook’s AI and algorithmic approach to content, but rather done by hand by Facebook moderators.

This does not come as a surprise as some Facebook executives announced their decision to restrict the distribution of the report. In a tweet, Facebook’s Policy Communications Director Andy Stone said that the story would be restricted in some form on the platform.

“While I will intentionally not link to the New York Post, I want be clear that this story is eligible to be fact checked by Facebook’s third-party fact checking partners. In the meantime, we are reducing its distribution on our platform,” Stone wrote in a tweet on October 14.

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Instagram Bans QAnon Accounts, but Refuses to Remove ISIS Accounts Celebrating 9/11

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Facebook-owned Instagram has announced that will ban all QAnon accounts, including ones that don’t promote violence, while refusing to remove ISIS propaganda accounts that celebrate 9/11 under the justification that “people may express themselves differently.”

In an update to its policy announced yesterday, Facebook said that it was moving beyond a measure taken back in August that removed QAnon accounts which contained “discussions of potential violence.”

“We’ve seen other QAnon content tied to different forms of real world harm, including recent claims that the west coast wildfires were started by certain groups, which diverted attention of local officials from fighting the fires,” said the social media giant.

Facebook specified that it would “remove any Facebook Pages, Groups and Instagram accounts representing QAnon, even if they contain no violent content.”

Many pointed out the hypocrisy of Antifa accounts still being allowed on the platform despite the movement’s involvement in numerous violent riots over the last six months.

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