James O’Keefe and Project Veritas released proof on Wednesday of Facebook targeting and censoring conservative Publishers.
BREAKING: Facebook Insider Leaks Docs; Explains "Deboosting," "Troll Report," & Political Targeting in Video Interview (FULL –> https://t.co/UdR4D6OkaK) pic.twitter.com/1lQlpvq8sT
— James O'Keefe (@JamesOKeefeIII) February 27, 2019
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Project Veritas reported:
- Insider, Formerly Responsible for Content Review in Facebook’s Intellectual Property Dept Speaks Out, Loses Job
- Facebook Engineers Plan to “demote bad content”
- Conservative Facebook Page Livestreams Secretly “deboosted,” No Notice to Page Owners
- Facebook Can Classify Users as Trolls Based on Their Vocabulary, Then Punish By Limiting Bandwidth, Blocking Comments…
- Facebook Engineer: “‘hateful’ content is coming from right-leaning sites.”
- “Special features” Triggered “leading up to important elections”
- Bizarre View of “hate speech” Includes Content from Conservative Commentator
(San Francisco) Project Veritas has obtained and published documents and presentation materials from a former Facebook insider. This information describes how Facebook engineers plan and go about policing political speech. Screenshots from a Facebook workstation show the specific technical actions taken against political figures, as well as “[e]xisting strategies” taken to combat political speech.
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The Facebook whistle-blower separated from Facebook in 2018 and was later hired by Project Veritas.
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The Gateway Pundit has repeatedly reported on Facebook censorship since the 2016 election.
In 2016 The Gateway Pundit was the 4th most influential conservative publisher on Facebook.
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