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Facebook, I’m Begging You, Please Make Yourself Better
We owe it to ourselves, regardless of party affiliation, to demand some quality control from Facebook — and not just because the confusion it spread helped elect Trump.
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COO contacting the Hillary team: https://wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/19070#efmACIAD6
Facebook accidentally blocking wikileaks: https://twitter.com/wikileaks/status/757330299491606528?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw
Facebook hiding a video of Jill Stein being censored by PBS: https://www.facebook.com/matt.orfalea/posts/580742257149
A call for facebook to stop censoring ex-muslim critique: http://ex-muslim.org.uk/2016/02/facebook-stop-censoring-arab-ex-muslims-and-freethinkers-now/
The memo linking Google's Smidt and Clinton: https://www.scribd.com/document/328037888/Cli...-Status-Memo-Mentioning-Google-s-Eric-Schmidt
So no, fuck facebook needing "some quality control". This is honestly the one argument that seriously pisses me off in the past few days. It is intellectually dishonest, and is asking big brother to limit what you might see based on what they think is acceptable for you. Sure, if you want to discuss civics/journalism education reform, where people are taught the number one thing in first year university, and that is to check the sources, the methodology, and the accuracy, I am with you. But for reiteration, fuck facebook, and its censorship. EDIT for clarity, as frankly, I expect better coming from the intercept.