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Sheryl Sandberg Misled Congress About Facebook’s Conscience
Photo: Jim Watson/AFP/Getty Images SHERYL SANDBERG MISLED CONGRESS ABOUT FACEBOOK’S CONSCIENCE FACEBOOK CHIEF OPERATING officer Sheryl Sandberg draped herself in the star-spangled banner of American principles before today’s Senate Select Intelligence Committee hearing on social media. Sandberg proclaimed that democratic values of free expression were integral to the company’s conscience. “We would only operate in a […]
Facebook Is An Intolerant Authoritarian Organization That Suppresses Free Speech
Facebook Is An Intolerant Authoritarian Organization That Suppresses Free Speech Facebook Is An Intolerant Authoritarian Organization That Suppresses Free Speech Facebook, Twitter, Google are information monopolies that intentionally violate the US Constitution’s protected First Amendment right. These organizations are evil and they are destroying the public’s right to know. These organizations should be nationalized without […]
Social Media vs the Constitution
Social Media vs the Constitution Salvador Dali The burning giraffe 1937 Dali: “The only difference between immortal Greece and our era is Sigmund Freud who discovered that the human body, which in Greek times was merely neoplatonical, is now filled with secret drawers only to be opened through psychoanalysis.”An ancient Latin saying goes: “Quod licet […]
Social Media Titans Holding Private Meeting To Coordinate Strategy For 2018 Midterms
Social Media Titans Holding Private Meeting To Coordinate Strategy For 2018 Midterms Representatives from around a dozen US tech titans are holding a private Friday meeting at Twitter headquarters to coordinate their efforts ahead of the 2018 US midterm elections, reports BuzzFeed News. Last week, Facebook’s head of cybersecurity policy, Nathaniel Gleicher, invited employees from a dozen companies, including Google, Microsoft, and […]
Facebook’s Secret “User-Reputation Score” Exposed
Facebook’s Secret “User-Reputation Score” Exposed In a hideous reflection of China’s already-prevalent ‘Social Credit’ system – which is a rating assigned to each citizen based on government data regarding their economic and social status – The Washington Post reports that Facebook has begun to assign its users a reputation score, predicting their trustworthiness on a […]
Doug Casey on Social Media
Doug Casey on Social Media Joel Bowman: G’day, Doug. Thanks for speaking with us today. Doug Casey: No problem, Joel. It’s a pleasure to hear your Australian accent come across the ether from Mexico. Joel: Let’s dive right in. A week or two ago, Facebook registered the largest single day loss for any one company […]
Five examples that show internet censorship is as much a threat to the left as the right
Five examples that show internet censorship is as much a threat to the left as the right © Kacper Pempel / Reuters The banning of right wing controversialist Alex Jones from multiple social media platforms last week was a cause of celebration for many liberals, but should those on the left really be so complacent […]
Taibbi: Censorship Does Not End Well
Censorship Does Not End Well How America learned to stop worrying and put Mark Zuckerberg in charge of everything Infowars’ Alex Jones and Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg. Brooks Kraft/Getty Images, Alex Brandon/AP/REX Shutterstock Silicon Valley is changing its mind about censorship. Two weeks ago, we learned about a new campaign against “inauthentic” content, conducted by […]
In Private Meeting, Facebook Exec Warns News Outlets to Cooperate or End Up Dying in ‘Hospice’
In Private Meeting, Facebook Exec Warns News Outlets to Cooperate or End Up Dying in ‘Hospice’ “Anyone who does care about news needs to understand Facebook as a fundamental threat.” Facebook admitted Wednesday that “most” of its 2 million users likely had their personal information collected by “malicious actors.” (Photo: Legal Loop) During a closed-door […]
Censorship Is What Happens When Powerful People Get Scared
Censorship Is What Happens When Powerful People Get Scared “Only the weak hit the fly with a hammer.” – Bangambiki Habyarimana Anyone who tells you the recent escalation of censorship by U.S. tech giants is merely a reflection of private companies making independent decisions is either lying or dangerously ignorant. In the case of Facebook, the […]
Apple, Google, Youtube, Facebook, Twitter Subvert the US Constitution, Free Speech, and American Liberty
Apple, Google, Youtube, Facebook, Twitter Subvert the US Constitution, Free Speech, and American Liberty The coordinated attack on widely watched Info Wars host Alex Jones by Apple, Facebook, Google/Youtube, and Spotify is all the proof that we need that the total failure to enforce America’s anti-trust laws has produced unaccountably powerful firms that are able […]
Blowback: UniCredit Becomes First Major Corporation To Sever Ties With Facebook Over Ethics
Blowback: UniCredit Becomes First Major Corporation To Sever Ties With Facebook Over Ethics Facebook has lost a major advertiser, UniCredit SpA, which has severed all ties alleging that the social media giant hasn’t acted ethically, reports Bloomberg – which notes that “other large companies” may follow suit. CEO Jean Pierre Mustier says the bank maintains that Facebook hasn’t […]
Stop Complaining and Just Delete Facebook
Stop Complaining and Just Delete Facebook I wrote just one post last week and it centered around the dangers posed to society by U.S. tech giants. I specifically called out Facebook, pointing out how company executives are currently groveling to politicians in order to prevent legislation that might deem it a monopoly and curtail its […]
Not Just Fangs: Manias and Echo Bubbles Abound
Not Just Fangs: Manias and Echo Bubbles Abound It’s not just the FANGs investors should be worried about. A Tweet and an article explain. ✔ “With the FANG stocks faltering lately investors are starting to become concerned about their impact on the broader market. And there is certainly something to this.”https://app.hedgeye.com/insights/69386-it-s-more-than-just-fang-stocks-investors-should-be-worried-about?type=guest-contributors … 6:17 PM – Aug 3, […]
