{"id":30354,"date":"2018-01-30T17:22:13","date_gmt":"2018-01-30T22:22:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=30354"},"modified":"2018-01-30T17:22:13","modified_gmt":"2018-01-30T22:22:13","slug":"facebook-cracks-down-on-independent-media-under-guise-of-enhancing-relationships","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=30354","title":{"rendered":"Facebook Cracks Down On Independent Media, Under Guise Of \u2018Enhancing Relationships\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<nav id=\"flash-breadcrumbs\" class=\"breadcrumb-trail breadcrumbs\">\n<div class=\"tg-container\">\n<h3 class=\"trail-title\"><a href=\"https:\/\/disobedientmedia.com\/2018\/01\/facebook-cracks-down-on-independent-media-under-guise-of-enhancing-relationships\/\">Facebook Cracks Down On Independent Media, Under Guise Of \u2018Enhancing Relationships\u2019<\/a><\/h3>\n<\/div>\n<\/nav>\n<div id=\"content\" class=\"site-content\">\n<div class=\"tg-container\">\n<div id=\"primary\" class=\"content-area\">\n<article id=\"post-8224\" class=\"post-8224 post type-post status-publish format-standard has-post-thumbnail hentry category-american-affairs category-censorship category-social-media category-american-politics tag-caitlin-johnstone tag-censorship tag-facebook tag-google tag-lee-camp tag-mark-zuckerberg tag-twitter tag-youtube tag-zuckerberg\">\n<div class=\"entry-thumbnail\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"attachment-full size-full wp-post-image\" src=\"https:\/\/disobedientmedia.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/yes.jpg\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 914px) 100vw, 914px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/disobedientmedia.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/yes.jpg 914w, https:\/\/disobedientmedia.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/yes-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/disobedientmedia.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/yes-768x576.jpg 768w\" alt=\"\" width=\"914\" height=\"685\" \/><\/div>\n<div class=\"entry-content-block\">\n<header class=\"entry-header\"><\/header>\n<div class=\"entry-meta\"><span class=\"entry-date\"><i class=\"fa fa-clock-o\"><\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/disobedientmedia.com\/2018\/01\/facebook-cracks-down-on-independent-media-under-guise-of-enhancing-relationships\/\" rel=\"bookmark\"><time class=\"date published updated\" datetime=\"2018-01-30T10:00:09+00:00\">January 30, 2018<\/time><\/a><\/span><span class=\"entry-author\">\u00a0<\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"entry-content\">\n<p>Nothing could have more perfectly exemplified the establishment\u2019s use of Orwellian Newspeak than Facebook\u2019s latest move to censor independent thought under the pretense of caring about the emotional wellbeing of the masses. The media giant has been documented live-streaming <a href=\"https:\/\/archive.fo\/L5AXF\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">murders<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/archive.fo\/u1Whk\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">suicides<\/a>,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/archive.fo\/ihCvx\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">rapes<\/a>, and abuse. Despite this,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2017\/10\/25\/facebook-we-cant-stop-all-live-stream-suicides\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The New York Post<\/a> reported that Facebook officially stated they were \u2018unable to stop live-streaming suicides.\u2019 But, trust them, they care about your mental health, and that\u2019s why they don\u2019t want you to read certain news stories.<\/p>\n<p>A recent\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/archive.fo\/KgKiz#selection-603.1-603.156\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">press report<\/a> on the matter stated: \u201cFacebook said it\u2019s changing the formula that determines users\u2019 news feeds by decreasing business and media posts and focusing more on personal connections.\u201d However, in reality, the changes seem to have been used to specifically target anti-establishment news sources.<\/p>\n<p>Though Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg enthused regarding the changes, the company\u2019s shareholders appeared less impressed with the news. According to <a href=\"https:\/\/archive.fo\/Jd5hS\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">CNBC<\/a>, Facebook shares fell by four percent at market the morning after Zuckerberg\u2019s announcement of the new policy. Stocks fell during the first day by following the announcement by 6.1%\u00a0 which was\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/archive.fo\/ZaJwD\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">reported<\/a> to have amounted to a $3.3 billion loss.<\/p>\n<p>Despite this, Zuckerberg appeared totally unfazed by the stock price drop, and openly <a href=\"https:\/\/archive.fo\/mIJUB\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">admitted<\/a> that the changes would lead to an overall decline in user engagement.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/archive.fo\/UslYw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The Guardian\u2019s<\/a> coverage of the news not only chided Zuckerberg for not having made the move earlier, while also directly identifying the core of the real impetus behind the changes, which had nothing to do with bringing you closer to your family. The Guardian\u2019s writing on the issue reveals that the real reason for the changes is in order to actively censor what the legacy press outlet deems to be \u201cfake news\u201d that \u201cinterfered\u201d in the outcome of the 2016 US Presidential election.<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;click on the above link to read the rest of the article&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Facebook Cracks Down On Independent Media, Under Guise Of \u2018Enhancing Relationships\u2019 January 30, 2018\u00a0 Nothing could have more perfectly exemplified the establishment\u2019s use of Orwellian Newspeak than Facebook\u2019s latest move to censor independent thought under the pretense of caring about the emotional wellbeing of the masses. The media giant has been documented live-streaming murders, suicides,\u00a0rapes, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[120,15091,18022,1493,2779,3771,9745,15980,512,570],"class_list":["post-30354","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-liberty","tag-censorship","tag-disobedient-media","tag-elizabeth-vos","tag-facebook","tag-fake-news","tag-guardian","tag-independent-media","tag-mark-zuckerberg","tag-media","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30354","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=30354"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30354\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30355,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30354\/revisions\/30355"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=30354"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=30354"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=30354"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}