Facebook is building a “fake news war room” inside its headquarters to fight against conservative information during the upcoming US and Brazilian elections
In
a report titled “Facebook
is building a ‘fake news war room’ inside its California headquarters to
co-ordinate its battle against the spread of misinformation during the upcoming
US and Brazilian elections,” DailyMail said, “Facebook officials are ramping up
their efforts to stop the spread of ‘fake news.’”
Conservatives have been Facebook’s
favorite victims for censorship.
When there is almost no one complaint from
the left-wing Facebook users of censorship of their views, complaints from the
conservative movement are widespread.
“Google and Twitter and Facebook, they’re
really treading on very, very troubled territory and they have to be careful.
It’s not fair to large portions of the population,” President Donald Trump said
last month, according to Fox, noting that his administration has “literally
thousands and thousands of complaints coming in” about the tech companies’
practices.
There is pro-left bias and anti-conservative
bias on Facebook. Last year, for example, Facebook hired
Joel Benenson, a chief adviser to Barack Obama and the chief strategist of
Hillary Clinton.
What Facebook is promising now is more censorship
of conservatives, especially in their free choice to use Facebook to spread
their conservative ideas. Such pressure is provoking a result:
1 in 3 conservatives have left or considering leaving Facebook.
I can speak by my own experience. In the
last 14 months, Facebook
has imposed on my profile 30-day blocks several times. In a report about
censorship, WND has included my case in its headline “‘Free
speech issue of our time’: Tech giants trigger conservative revolt.”
The DailyMail report said,
The
firm has revealed it will have a fully-functioning “war room” up and running at
its Menlo Park Campus in time for the US and Brazil elections.
Facebook
executives claim the company has several teams currently working to improve its
response to any attempts designed to manipulate Facebook's content to favour
any specific candidate or party.
The
Brazilian general elections are scheduled to be held on October 7 to elect the
President and Vice President, the National Congress, state and Federal District
Governors and Vice Governors, state Legislative Assemblies and Federal District
Legislative Chamber.
The
United States midterm elections are due to be held on November 6 2018. It will
see all 435 seats in the House of Representatives and 35 of the 100 seats in
the United States Senate contested.
Facebook’s alleged worry is that its platform
was used to elect Trump. I wonder if Facebook would be worried if its platform
had been successful, as it tried to do, in electing the left-wing Hillary
Clinton.
Facebook wants the public to believe, as
William Murray said,
that “a handful of ‘Russian trolls’ leaving comments on Facebook pages altered
the results of the 2016 elections!”
Facebook is using the excuse of Russian
trolls — Russians and their current conservatism — as scapegoats to
increase its censorship of conservatives.
So Facebook kills two birds with one
stone: It blames Russia for interfering in the U.S. elections and distracts attention
of its own efforts to help elect left-wing candidates.
Regardless of Russian conservatism, most
Facebook users are conservative. This is the only explanation for the fact
that, in spite of Facebook’s massive pro-left bias, the majority’s will
prevailed. Untold numbers of users have been put in the Facebook jail for just saying
that homosexuality is perversion. Facebook had even removed
my quotation of Leviticus 18:22, where God said, “Do not lie with a man as
one lies with a woman; that is detestable.”
Most voters
of Trump were evangelical, and this is the reason Facebook has imposed so
much censorship on conservative evangelicals. Likewise, the main
voting base of a promising right-wing candidate in Brazil is evangelicals.
Facebook’s war room is not against fake
news. It is against conservative news. It is against evangelicals in the U.S.
and Brazil.
Facebook’s battle is not against misinformation.
It is against conservative and evangelical information.
I know by experience, because I am evangelical
and I have been under censorship and 30-days blocks from Facebook.
If it could, Facebook would send all American
and Brazilian evangelicals to virtual Gulags. The first step has already been
taken: Relentless censorship of evangelical views of the homosexual agenda.
The left is rife with fake news and misinformation.
If Facebook were serious about fighting such threats, it would impose on left-wing
extremists the same censorship it has been imposing on conservatives for years.
Portuguese version of this article: Facebook
está construindo “centro de comando de guerra contra notícias falsas” dentro de
sua sede para combater informações conservadoras durante as próximas eleições
americanas e brasileiras
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