FB Blocks the news - again

[George K]

https://nypost.com/2021/04/16/social-media-again-silences-the-post-for-reporting-the-news/

On Thursday, Facebook decided its users should not be able to share a New York Post article about the property buying habits of one of the founders of Black Lives Matter.

This is the third time we’ve tangled with social media giants in the past year. In the early days of the COVID-19 pandemic, we published a column that suggested the virus could have leaked from a Chinese virology lab. Facebook’s “fact checkers” decided this was an opinion you weren’t allowed to have, and blocked the article. Today, it’s a commonly discussed theory, with officials from former CDC Director Dr. Robert Redfield to CNN’s Sanjay Gupta saying it can’t be discounted. Even the head of the World Health Organization (WHO) has said it can’t be ruled out.

In October, we published a series of articles about a laptop Hunter Biden left at a Delaware repair shop. Twitter suspended our account. You probably know how that ended. Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey admitted to lawmakers months later it was a “total mistake.”

We were right both times. We’re right this time, too.

[Jolly]

I can think of no better argument for regulation.

[George K]

[Jolly]

Sound familiar?

"Detailed guidelines stated what stories could or could not be reported and how to report the news. Journalists or editors who failed to follow these instructions could be fired or, if believed to be acting with intent to harm Germany, sent to a concentration camp. Rather than suppressing news, the Nazi propaganda apparatus instead sought to tightly control its flow and interpretation and to deny access to alternative sources of news".

https://encyclopedia.ushmm.org/content/en/article/the-press-in-the-third-reich

[Axtremus]

https://solutionsuggest.com/facebook-alternatives/

Or build your own news dissemination platform.

[George K]

@axtremus said in FB Blocks the news - again:

Or build your own news dissemination platform.

Took you seven hours....

You're slipping, LOL.

[LuFins Dad]

@axtremus said in FB Blocks the news - again:

https://solutionsuggest.com/facebook-alternatives/

Or build your own news dissemination platform.

Irrelevant when Facebook is breaking their own policies regarding the sharing and dissemination of accurate and reliable news articles that DO pass their stated guidelines. Their is an implicit agreement between user and Facebook when a user clicks “I Accept”. This is breaking that implied agreement.

[Axtremus]

@lufins-dad said in FB Blocks the news - again:

Their is an implicit agreement between user and Facebook when a user clicks “I Accept”. This is breaking that implied agreement.

Sue ‘em if you wish.

[Doctor Phibes]

Build your own Death Star.