Brigitte Gabriel, Facebook’s War on Speech (08.08.2018)
https://www.cnsnews.com/commentary/brigitte-gabriel/facebooks-war-speech
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UK : Collusion: Soros Group Uses Facebook Ads, Leaflet Drops to Interfere in UK Local Elections (03.05.2018)
http://www.breitbart.com/london/2018/05/03/foreign-collusion-soros-group-facebook-leaflet-interfere-uk-local-elections/
USA : Conservatives Urge Fairer Social Media Policies (01.05.2018)
USA : Milo Yiannopoulos team indicates Facebook censorship (01.05.2018)
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/red-alert-politics/milo-yiannopoulos-team-indicates-facebook-censorship
Facebook’s War on Speech
Brigitte Gabriel By Brigitte Gabriel | May 8, 2018 | 10:01 AM EDT
Facebook co-founder Mark Zuckerberg testifies before Congress. (Screenshot)
The tech revolution has had a profoundly positive effect on advancing freedom of thought and expression. Unfortunately, Facebook’s recent unveiling of a so called “hate speech” button, foreshadows a dangerous future in which this precious principle will no longer exist.
For decades, leftists enjoyed a monopoly on media and entertainment. Their ability to control the dissemination of information allowed them to advance their anti-American culture war, and silence those who attempted to sound the alarm.
With the exception of Fox News, traditional media outlets such as ABC, NBC, CBS, etc. continuously spew the same leftist talking points on a nightly basis and remain united in their coup against President Trump. But what these ideologues didn’t realize throughout the 2016 Presidential campaign was, Americans weren’t buying their fake news propaganda anymore. Why? Because the way Americans and the world itself retrieves information has changed.
With the tech revolution, Americans have a more customizable means of getting their news and being entertained. Instead of sitting down at the same time every night watching the evening news, they can stay updated on current events through Facebook, or Twitter throughout the day, by simply glancing at their phone.
Gone are the days when Americans couldn’t fact-check leftist pundits and politicians on television, who deceptively frame stories in order to advance their agenda. More to it, gone are the days when the mainstream media could bury a story, simply because it contrasted with their worldview. Now, information is everywhere, and the left’s ability to control the culture is dwindling.
Consequently, the left has gone into panic mode, after the wake-up call they suffered in November 2016. They’ve since attempted to reframe this rebuke of their propaganda efforts by doubling down on them and spewing fake news about so called “collusion” between the Trump campaign and mysterious Russian operatives.
While they wear their poker face on a nightly basis, continuing this factless and embarrassingly absurd narrative, they know that deep down, it wasn’t Putin who elected President Trump, it was the American people.
“But how could this be?” They must’ve asked themselves this question a thousand times.
After all, from the day he announced his candidacy, every mainstream media outlet in America united to attack, malign, and smear then candidate Trump on almost a 24/7 basis, and yet, he was legitimately elected by the American people.
Acknowledging this terrifying reality that they no longer have the ability to control information, the left has turned to tech outlets themselves to try to put the cat back in the bag before it’s too late.
Facebook Founder & CEO Mark Zuckerberg recently testified before joint Senate Commerce and Judiciary committees about a massive Facebook data breach. During his testimony, Senator Ted Cruz appropriately took Zuckerberg to task over political bias at Facebook, which led to the removal of pages and stories that were apparently deemed by Facebook administrators to be too conservative.
Senator Cruz specified how stories relating to the IRS scandal, Mitt Romney, Glenn Beck, and the annual Conservative Political Action Conference were all suppressed. In one egregious example, the page of renowned black female Trump supporters, Diamond & Silk, was deemed to be “unsafe to the community.”
Zuckerberg tried to reassure Senator Cruz that he was committed to keeping political bias out of Facebook and allowing freedom of expression to flourish.
“We're proud of the discourse and the different ideas that people can share on the service. And that is something that, as long as I'm running the company, I'm going to be committed to making sure is the case," said Zuckerberg.[1]
Unfortunately, it appears those words were just words.
A recent Facebook test, which was supposed to remain internal, gave users the option to click below the post if they thought it contained so-called “hate speech.”
A spokesperson for Facebook proclaimed that a "bug caused it to launch publicly," but has since been disabled.
Facebook’s explanation that they were merely trying to understand what users thought was hate speech, is hard to believe, given their track record of political censorship.
One thing is certain, the left is on a mission to silence their political opponents and using “hate speech” as justification for suppressing opposing views is their newest strategy.
The radical left hates freedom of speech because it knows it cannot win in the arena of freedom of expression. Consequently, they will now infiltrate tech outlets like Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, and Google to suppress opposing voices and take back control of their monopoly on the dissemination of information.
Beware of this emerging trend, because if the left is able to suppress information through these new streams of freedom, there may be nowhere else to go for advocates of liberty. I’ve said it before, and I’ll say it again, political correctness must die, so that freedom can live.
Brigitte Gabriel is Founder and Chairman of ACT for America, the largest national security grassroots organization in the U.S. with over 500,000 members and 1,000 chapters nationwide dedicated to preserving national security and promoting Western values. She is the author of two New York Times Best Sellers, “BECAUSE THEY HATE: A Survivor of Islamic Terror Warns America” and “THEY MUST BE STOPPED: Why we must defeat radical Islam and how we can do it.”
Conservatives Urge Fairer Social Media Policies
By NB Staff | May 1, 2018 3:55 PM EDT
MRC Founder and President Brent Bozell, MRC Censorship Project Director Allen West, and 61 other conservative leaders issued the following joint statement on Tuesday urging leading social media companies to adopt four key principles in order to ensure that conservatives receive equal treatment on these important platforms:
Social media censorship and online restriction of conservatives and their organizations have reached a crisis level. Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg’s hearings on Capitol Hill only served to draw attention to how widespread this problem has become. Conservative leaders now have banded together to call for equal treatment on tech and social media.
Conservatives have encountered problems across platforms — Twitter, Facebook, Google, and its video platform YouTube especially. Social media firms have banned gun videos and rejected pro-life advertisements. They have skewed search results and adjusted trending topics in ways that have harmed the right. Firms have restricted and deleted videos, even academic content. Conservative tech employees have found their speech limited and their careers harmed. And top tech companies have given preferential treatment to anointed legacy media outlets that also lean left. These same tech titans then work with groups openly hostile to conservatives to restrict speech.
Here are four key areas that social media companies must address to begin to rectify their credibility problem:
1) Provide Transparency: We need detailed information so everyone can see if liberal groups and users are being treated the same as those on the right. Social media companies operate in a black-box environment, only releasing anecdotes about reports on content and users when they think it necessary. This needs to change. The companies need to design open systems so that they can be held accountable, while giving weight to privacy concerns.
2) Provide Clarity on ‘Hate Speech’: “Hate speech” is a common concern among social media companies, but no two firms define it the same way. Their definitions are vague and open to interpretation, and their interpretation often looks like an opportunity to silence thought. Today, hate speech means anything liberals don’t like. Silencing those you disagree with is dangerous. If companies can’t tell users clearly what it is, then they shouldn’t try to regulate it.
3) Provide Equal Footing for Conservatives: Top social media firms, such as Google and YouTube, have chosen to work with dishonest groups that are actively opposed to the conservative movement, including the Southern Poverty Law Center. Those companies need to make equal room for conservative groups as advisers to offset this bias. That same attitude should be applied to employment diversity efforts. Tech companies need to embrace viewpoint diversity.
4) Mirror the First Amendment: Tech giants should afford their users nothing less than the free speech and free exercise of religion embodied in the First Amendment as interpreted by the U.S. Supreme Court. That standard, the result of centuries of American jurisprudence, would enable the rightful blocking of content that threatens violence or spews obscenity, without trampling on free speech liberties that have long made the United States a beacon for freedom.
Social media companies must address these complaints if they wish to have any credibility with the conservative movement and its tens of millions of supporters. It is our hope they will do so in a positive way. If the social media firms engage the conservative movement with the spirit of cooperation, we will do our best to assist them.
Signed (affiliations are for identification purposes only):
L. Brent Bozell III
Founder and President
Media Research Center
LTC Allen B. West (USA, Ret)
Director, MRC Censorship Project
Media Research Center
Lamar Smith (TX-21)
Chairman, Media Fairness Caucus
Lila Rose
President
Live Action
Dr. Jerry A. Johnson
President & CEO
National Religious Broadcasters &
Internet Freedom Watch
Brigitte Gabriel
Founder and Chairman
ACT for America
Tony Perkins
President
Family Research Council
David Bozell
President
For America Inc.
The Honorable Edwin Meese III
Former Attorney General
President Ronald Reagan
Dave N. Bossie
President
Citizens United
Ken Cuccinelli, II
President
Senate Conservatives Fund
Morton Blackwell
Chairman
Weyrich Lunch
Jenny Beth Martin
Co-Founder
Tea Party Patriots Citizens Fund
Ron Robinson
President
Young America’s Foundation
Tim Wildmon
President
American Family Association
James O’Keefe
CEO
Project Veritas
Richard Viguerie
Founder
American Targeted Advertising
Becky Norton Dunlop
Senior White House Advisor
President Ronald Reagan
Kelly Shakelford
President and CEO
First Liberty Institute
Cleta Mitchell
Political Law Attorney
Washington, DC
Penny Young Nance
CEO and President
Concerned Women for America
Kristan Hawkins
President
Students for Life of America
Mathew Staver, Esq.
Founder and Chairman
Liberty Counsel
Phil Kerpen
President
American Commitment
Charles Copeland
President
Intercollegiate Studies Institute
Frank Gaffney
Founder, President, and CEO
Center for Security Policy
Brian Brown
President
National Organization for Marriage
Clifford D. May
Founder and President
Foundation for Defense of Democracies
Patrick Reilly
President
Cardinal Newman Society
Honorable Tim Huelskamp, Ph.D.
President
Heartland Institute
Craig Shirley
Reagan Biographer and Presidential Historian
William A. Donohue, Ph.D.
President
Catholic League for Religious and Civil Rights
C. Preston Noell, III
President
Tradition, Family, Property, Inc
James Martin
Founder and Chairman
60 Plus Association
Francis DeLuca
President
Civitas Institute
Gary Bauer
President
American Values
Diana Banister
President
Shirley & Banister Public Affairs
Bob Adams
President
Revive America PAC
Elaine Donnelly
President
Center for Military Readiness
Ryan Bomberger
Chief Creative Officer
Radiance Foundation
Tricia Erickson
President, Angel Pictures & Publicity, Inc
Publisher of TheConservativePundit.net
Author
Richard P. Bott, II
President and CEO
Bott Radio Network
Saul Anuzis
President
60 Plus Association
Floyd Brown
Publisher
Western Journal
Mark Fitzgibbons
President of Corporate Affairs
American Target Advertising, Inc.
Susan A. Carleson
Chairman/CEO
American Civil Rights Union
Kevin Freeman
Founder
NSIC Institute
Angelo Codevilla
Senior Fellow
Claremont Institute
Paul Gessing
President
Rio Grande Foundation
T. Kenneth Cribb
President Emeritus
Intercollegiate Studies Institute
Colin Hanna
President
Let Freedom Ring
Gene Mills
President
Louisiana Family Forum
John Hinderaker
President
Center of the American Experiment
Everett Piper
President
Oklahoma Wesleyan University
Amy Kremer
Co-chair
Women for Trump
The Honorable Donald J. Devine
Director of the U.S. Office of Personnel Management
President Ronald Reagan
Tom Donelson
Chairman
Americas PAC
Jeffrey G. Hunt
Chairman
Western Conservative Summit
George Landrith
President
Frontiers of Freedom
Patrick Brown
CEO
Liftable Media
Rod D. Martin
Founder and CEO
The Martin Organization
Tom McCabe
CEO
Freedom Foundation
Avik Roy
President
The Foundation for Research on Equal Opportunity
Milo Yiannopoulos team indicates Facebook censorship
by Mitchell Gunter
| May 01, 2018 12:21 PM
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“[Mark] Zuckerberg's appearance in Washington and the Diamond and Silk controversy clearly got a lot of people thinking about Milo [Yiannopoulos], as our page was bombarded that week with fans telling us they had not [seen] a post from Milo in months,” Yiannopoulos' colleague, Chadwick Moore, said.
(Janet Van Ham/HBO via AP)
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Following revelations of censorship by Facebook against the pro-Trump duo, Diamond and Silk, a team member at Milo Yiannopoulos’ Dangerous.com has indicated that the right-wing firebrand’s content is being similarly restricted by the social media giant.
“Zuckerberg's appearance in Washington and the Diamond and Silk controversy clearly got a lot of people thinking about Milo, as our page was bombarded that week with fans telling us they had not [seen] a post from Milo in months,” Milo colleague Chadwick Moore told Red Alert Politics.
According to Diamond & Silk, Facebook dubbed the pair “unsafe to the community” and heavily restricted their content. While a Facebook representative originally told Fox News this was a direct result of concerns over the pair’s “online rhetoric,” a Facebook spokesperson quickly backtracked, dubbing the handling of the incident “inaccurate.”
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Since news of the censorship debacle broke, fans have bombarded the Milo Yiannopoulos Facebook page with comments claiming a significant reduction of Yiannopoulos’ content in their Facebook newsfeed. Some fans are claiming they don’t see Yiannopoulos’ content at all unless they visit the page directly.
“Many said they didn't even realize we still had a Facebook page,” Moore explained.
“These fans went out of their way to search for us, realized they were still following us, that we were still very much around and posting heavily, but they were seeing zero content when they logged into Facebook.”
“Our Facebook reach has always been consistent, in the tens of millions. The first week of February, that number was cut exactly in half, almost overnight,” Moore said of the Yiannopoulos page’s traffic, pinning the blame on Facebook’s January algorithm update titled, “Bringing People Closer Together.”
A Facebook blog post explained that the update’s purpose is to “prioritize posts that spark conversations and meaningful interactions between people,” but stipulated that “Pages may see their reach, video watch time and referral traffic decrease.”
“The impact will vary from Page to Page, driven by factors including the type of content they produce and how people interact with it. Pages making posts that people generally don’t react to or comment on could see the biggest decreases in distribution,” the blog post continues.
“Social media companies are playing a very dangerous game. Had Facebook been around in the time of Charles Darwin, his page most certainly would have been suppressed, because his ideas were controversial,” Moore concluded, alluding to Yiannopoulos’ often polarizing political content that has provoked strong reactions from supporters and detractors alike.
Recently, a crowd largely comprised of members of the Democratic Socialists of America at the Churchill Tavern in New York yelled , “Nazi scum, get out!” at both Yiannopoulos and Moore until they left the building.
Yiannopoulos later posted a photo on Instagram describing the incident, writing, “My first thought was John and not getting myself hurt or killed. I don’t know how I’d explain to my black husband that I got hurt for being a ‘white supremacist.’”
“It’s now impossible for me to safely go out for lunch in most major cities in America because I supported Trump at the last election and don’t like feminism,” Yiannopoulos concluded.
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USA : Conservatives Urge Fairer Social Media Policies (01.05.2018)
USA : Milo Yiannopoulos team indicates Facebook censorship (01.05.2018)
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Facebook’s War on Speech
Brigitte Gabriel By Brigitte Gabriel | May 8, 2018 | 10:01 AM EDT
Facebook co-founder Mark Zuckerberg testifies before Congress. (Screenshot)
The tech revolution has had a profoundly positive effect on advancing freedom of thought and expression. Unfortunately, Facebook’s recent unveiling of a so called “hate speech” button, foreshadows a dangerous future in which this precious principle will no longer exist.
For decades, leftists enjoyed a monopoly on media and entertainment. Their ability to control the dissemination of information allowed them to advance their anti-American culture war, and silence those who attempted to sound the alarm.
With the exception of Fox News, traditional media outlets such as ABC, NBC, CBS, etc. continuously spew the same leftist talking points on a nightly basis and remain united in their coup against President Trump. But what these ideologues didn’t realize throughout the 2016 Presidential campaign was, Americans weren’t buying their fake news propaganda anymore. Why? Because the way Americans and the world itself retrieves information has changed.
With the tech revolution, Americans have a more customizable means of getting their news and being entertained. Instead of sitting down at the same time every night watching the evening news, they can stay updated on current events through Facebook, or Twitter throughout the day, by simply glancing at their phone.
Gone are the days when Americans couldn’t fact-check leftist pundits and politicians on television, who deceptively frame stories in order to advance their agenda. More to it, gone are the days when the mainstream media could bury a story, simply because it contrasted with their worldview. Now, information is everywhere, and the left’s ability to control the culture is dwindling.
Consequently, the left has gone into panic mode, after the wake-up call they suffered in November 2016. They’ve since attempted to reframe this rebuke of their propaganda efforts by doubling down on them and spewing fake news about so called “collusion” between the Trump campaign and mysterious Russian operatives.
While they wear their poker face on a nightly basis, continuing this factless and embarrassingly absurd narrative, they know that deep down, it wasn’t Putin who elected President Trump, it was the American people.
“But how could this be?” They must’ve asked themselves this question a thousand times.
After all, from the day he announced his candidacy, every mainstream media outlet in America united to attack, malign, and smear then candidate Trump on almost a 24/7 basis, and yet, he was legitimately elected by the American people.
Acknowledging this terrifying reality that they no longer have the ability to control information, the left has turned to tech outlets themselves to try to put the cat back in the bag before it’s too late.
Facebook Founder & CEO Mark Zuckerberg recently testified before joint Senate Commerce and Judiciary committees about a massive Facebook data breach. During his testimony, Senator Ted Cruz appropriately took Zuckerberg to task over political bias at Facebook, which led to the removal of pages and stories that were apparently deemed by Facebook administrators to be too conservative.
Senator Cruz specified how stories relating to the IRS scandal, Mitt Romney, Glenn Beck, and the annual Conservative Political Action Conference were all suppressed. In one egregious example, the page of renowned black female Trump supporters, Diamond & Silk, was deemed to be “unsafe to the community.”
Zuckerberg tried to reassure Senator Cruz that he was committed to keeping political bias out of Facebook and allowing freedom of expression to flourish.
“We're proud of the discourse and the different ideas that people can share on the service. And that is something that, as long as I'm running the company, I'm going to be committed to making sure is the case," said Zuckerberg.[1]
Unfortunately, it appears those words were just words.
A recent Facebook test, which was supposed to remain internal, gave users the option to click below the post if they thought it contained so-called “hate speech.”
A spokesperson for Facebook proclaimed that a "bug caused it to launch publicly," but has since been disabled.
Facebook’s explanation that they were merely trying to understand what users thought was hate speech, is hard to believe, given their track record of political censorship.
One thing is certain, the left is on a mission to silence their political opponents and using “hate speech” as justification for suppressing opposing views is their newest strategy.
The radical left hates freedom of speech because it knows it cannot win in the arena of freedom of expression. Consequently, they will now infiltrate tech outlets like Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, and Google to suppress opposing voices and take back control of their monopoly on the dissemination of information.
Beware of this emerging trend, because if the left is able to suppress information through these new streams of freedom, there may be nowhere else to go for advocates of liberty. I’ve said it before, and I’ll say it again, political correctness must die, so that freedom can live.
Brigitte Gabriel is Founder and Chairman of ACT for America, the largest national security grassroots organization in the U.S. with over 500,000 members and 1,000 chapters nationwide dedicated to preserving national security and promoting Western values. She is the author of two New York Times Best Sellers, “BECAUSE THEY HATE: A Survivor of Islamic Terror Warns America” and “THEY MUST BE STOPPED: Why we must defeat radical Islam and how we can do it.”
Conservatives Urge Fairer Social Media Policies
By NB Staff | May 1, 2018 3:55 PM EDT
MRC Founder and President Brent Bozell, MRC Censorship Project Director Allen West, and 61 other conservative leaders issued the following joint statement on Tuesday urging leading social media companies to adopt four key principles in order to ensure that conservatives receive equal treatment on these important platforms:
Social media censorship and online restriction of conservatives and their organizations have reached a crisis level. Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg’s hearings on Capitol Hill only served to draw attention to how widespread this problem has become. Conservative leaders now have banded together to call for equal treatment on tech and social media.
Conservatives have encountered problems across platforms — Twitter, Facebook, Google, and its video platform YouTube especially. Social media firms have banned gun videos and rejected pro-life advertisements. They have skewed search results and adjusted trending topics in ways that have harmed the right. Firms have restricted and deleted videos, even academic content. Conservative tech employees have found their speech limited and their careers harmed. And top tech companies have given preferential treatment to anointed legacy media outlets that also lean left. These same tech titans then work with groups openly hostile to conservatives to restrict speech.
Here are four key areas that social media companies must address to begin to rectify their credibility problem:
1) Provide Transparency: We need detailed information so everyone can see if liberal groups and users are being treated the same as those on the right. Social media companies operate in a black-box environment, only releasing anecdotes about reports on content and users when they think it necessary. This needs to change. The companies need to design open systems so that they can be held accountable, while giving weight to privacy concerns.
2) Provide Clarity on ‘Hate Speech’: “Hate speech” is a common concern among social media companies, but no two firms define it the same way. Their definitions are vague and open to interpretation, and their interpretation often looks like an opportunity to silence thought. Today, hate speech means anything liberals don’t like. Silencing those you disagree with is dangerous. If companies can’t tell users clearly what it is, then they shouldn’t try to regulate it.
3) Provide Equal Footing for Conservatives: Top social media firms, such as Google and YouTube, have chosen to work with dishonest groups that are actively opposed to the conservative movement, including the Southern Poverty Law Center. Those companies need to make equal room for conservative groups as advisers to offset this bias. That same attitude should be applied to employment diversity efforts. Tech companies need to embrace viewpoint diversity.
4) Mirror the First Amendment: Tech giants should afford their users nothing less than the free speech and free exercise of religion embodied in the First Amendment as interpreted by the U.S. Supreme Court. That standard, the result of centuries of American jurisprudence, would enable the rightful blocking of content that threatens violence or spews obscenity, without trampling on free speech liberties that have long made the United States a beacon for freedom.
Social media companies must address these complaints if they wish to have any credibility with the conservative movement and its tens of millions of supporters. It is our hope they will do so in a positive way. If the social media firms engage the conservative movement with the spirit of cooperation, we will do our best to assist them.
Signed (affiliations are for identification purposes only):
L. Brent Bozell III
Founder and President
Media Research Center
LTC Allen B. West (USA, Ret)
Director, MRC Censorship Project
Media Research Center
Lamar Smith (TX-21)
Chairman, Media Fairness Caucus
Lila Rose
President
Live Action
Dr. Jerry A. Johnson
President & CEO
National Religious Broadcasters &
Internet Freedom Watch
Brigitte Gabriel
Founder and Chairman
ACT for America
Tony Perkins
President
Family Research Council
David Bozell
President
For America Inc.
The Honorable Edwin Meese III
Former Attorney General
President Ronald Reagan
Dave N. Bossie
President
Citizens United
Ken Cuccinelli, II
President
Senate Conservatives Fund
Morton Blackwell
Chairman
Weyrich Lunch
Jenny Beth Martin
Co-Founder
Tea Party Patriots Citizens Fund
Ron Robinson
President
Young America’s Foundation
Tim Wildmon
President
American Family Association
James O’Keefe
CEO
Project Veritas
Richard Viguerie
Founder
American Targeted Advertising
Becky Norton Dunlop
Senior White House Advisor
President Ronald Reagan
Kelly Shakelford
President and CEO
First Liberty Institute
Cleta Mitchell
Political Law Attorney
Washington, DC
Penny Young Nance
CEO and President
Concerned Women for America
Kristan Hawkins
President
Students for Life of America
Mathew Staver, Esq.
Founder and Chairman
Liberty Counsel
Phil Kerpen
President
American Commitment
Charles Copeland
President
Intercollegiate Studies Institute
Frank Gaffney
Founder, President, and CEO
Center for Security Policy
Brian Brown
President
National Organization for Marriage
Clifford D. May
Founder and President
Foundation for Defense of Democracies
Patrick Reilly
President
Cardinal Newman Society
Honorable Tim Huelskamp, Ph.D.
President
Heartland Institute
Craig Shirley
Reagan Biographer and Presidential Historian
William A. Donohue, Ph.D.
President
Catholic League for Religious and Civil Rights
C. Preston Noell, III
President
Tradition, Family, Property, Inc
James Martin
Founder and Chairman
60 Plus Association
Francis DeLuca
President
Civitas Institute
Gary Bauer
President
American Values
Diana Banister
President
Shirley & Banister Public Affairs
Bob Adams
President
Revive America PAC
Elaine Donnelly
President
Center for Military Readiness
Ryan Bomberger
Chief Creative Officer
Radiance Foundation
Tricia Erickson
President, Angel Pictures & Publicity, Inc
Publisher of TheConservativePundit.net
Author
Richard P. Bott, II
President and CEO
Bott Radio Network
Saul Anuzis
President
60 Plus Association
Floyd Brown
Publisher
Western Journal
Mark Fitzgibbons
President of Corporate Affairs
American Target Advertising, Inc.
Susan A. Carleson
Chairman/CEO
American Civil Rights Union
Kevin Freeman
Founder
NSIC Institute
Angelo Codevilla
Senior Fellow
Claremont Institute
Paul Gessing
President
Rio Grande Foundation
T. Kenneth Cribb
President Emeritus
Intercollegiate Studies Institute
Colin Hanna
President
Let Freedom Ring
Gene Mills
President
Louisiana Family Forum
John Hinderaker
President
Center of the American Experiment
Everett Piper
President
Oklahoma Wesleyan University
Amy Kremer
Co-chair
Women for Trump
The Honorable Donald J. Devine
Director of the U.S. Office of Personnel Management
President Ronald Reagan
Tom Donelson
Chairman
Americas PAC
Jeffrey G. Hunt
Chairman
Western Conservative Summit
George Landrith
President
Frontiers of Freedom
Patrick Brown
CEO
Liftable Media
Rod D. Martin
Founder and CEO
The Martin Organization
Tom McCabe
CEO
Freedom Foundation
Avik Roy
President
The Foundation for Research on Equal Opportunity
Milo Yiannopoulos team indicates Facebook censorship
by Mitchell Gunter
| May 01, 2018 12:21 PM
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022017 Milo disinvited CPAC
“[Mark] Zuckerberg's appearance in Washington and the Diamond and Silk controversy clearly got a lot of people thinking about Milo [Yiannopoulos], as our page was bombarded that week with fans telling us they had not [seen] a post from Milo in months,” Yiannopoulos' colleague, Chadwick Moore, said.
(Janet Van Ham/HBO via AP)
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Following revelations of censorship by Facebook against the pro-Trump duo, Diamond and Silk, a team member at Milo Yiannopoulos’ Dangerous.com has indicated that the right-wing firebrand’s content is being similarly restricted by the social media giant.
“Zuckerberg's appearance in Washington and the Diamond and Silk controversy clearly got a lot of people thinking about Milo, as our page was bombarded that week with fans telling us they had not [seen] a post from Milo in months,” Milo colleague Chadwick Moore told Red Alert Politics.
According to Diamond & Silk, Facebook dubbed the pair “unsafe to the community” and heavily restricted their content. While a Facebook representative originally told Fox News this was a direct result of concerns over the pair’s “online rhetoric,” a Facebook spokesperson quickly backtracked, dubbing the handling of the incident “inaccurate.”
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Since news of the censorship debacle broke, fans have bombarded the Milo Yiannopoulos Facebook page with comments claiming a significant reduction of Yiannopoulos’ content in their Facebook newsfeed. Some fans are claiming they don’t see Yiannopoulos’ content at all unless they visit the page directly.
“Many said they didn't even realize we still had a Facebook page,” Moore explained.
“These fans went out of their way to search for us, realized they were still following us, that we were still very much around and posting heavily, but they were seeing zero content when they logged into Facebook.”
“Our Facebook reach has always been consistent, in the tens of millions. The first week of February, that number was cut exactly in half, almost overnight,” Moore said of the Yiannopoulos page’s traffic, pinning the blame on Facebook’s January algorithm update titled, “Bringing People Closer Together.”
A Facebook blog post explained that the update’s purpose is to “prioritize posts that spark conversations and meaningful interactions between people,” but stipulated that “Pages may see their reach, video watch time and referral traffic decrease.”
“The impact will vary from Page to Page, driven by factors including the type of content they produce and how people interact with it. Pages making posts that people generally don’t react to or comment on could see the biggest decreases in distribution,” the blog post continues.
“Social media companies are playing a very dangerous game. Had Facebook been around in the time of Charles Darwin, his page most certainly would have been suppressed, because his ideas were controversial,” Moore concluded, alluding to Yiannopoulos’ often polarizing political content that has provoked strong reactions from supporters and detractors alike.
Recently, a crowd largely comprised of members of the Democratic Socialists of America at the Churchill Tavern in New York yelled , “Nazi scum, get out!” at both Yiannopoulos and Moore until they left the building.
Yiannopoulos later posted a photo on Instagram describing the incident, writing, “My first thought was John and not getting myself hurt or killed. I don’t know how I’d explain to my black husband that I got hurt for being a ‘white supremacist.’”
“It’s now impossible for me to safely go out for lunch in most major cities in America because I supported Trump at the last election and don’t like feminism,” Yiannopoulos concluded.
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