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An excellent article published today in Canada’s National Post on Wednesday succinctly explains how the Biden Administration, the Trudeau regime in Canada, Big Tech and Big Business, along with advocates for global warming mitigation, are enabling CCP-controlled China’s rise to global dominance.
The debate over online content access promises get even more intense as the 2020 election gets closer and closer. Setting aside fringe actors, it often seems to come down to legitimate free speech vs. Orwellian censorship.
When it comes to exploring alternative or holistic health practices, consumers should engage in extensive due diligence guided by a qualified healthcare professional. Health is an intensely personal matter. But what happens if the online platforms prevent that due diligence?
Last year, Harvard historian Niall Ferguson made an interesting prediction. According to Ferguson, “Silicon Valley is never going to let 2016 happen again.” He was talking about the presidential election victory by Donald Trump. The latest in a series of exposes by James O’Keefe and the Project Veritas crew seems to validate that prediction.
A Pinterest software engineer who leaked information to Project Veritas about behind-the-scenes censorship found himself escorted out of the building by security with no explanation.
Search giant Google has apparently terminated the employment of software engineer Mike Wacker. Last month, the self-described Republican published an open letter about the “outrage mobs” that evidently run the show within the company. The only political views acceptable within Google are left or far left; expressing a dissenting view prompts complaints to HR., Wacker claimed. Wacker even hinted that going public could result in his firing.
Last year, Harvard historian Niall Ferguson predicted that “Silicon Valley is never going to let 2016 happen again.” He was referring to Donald Trump’s social-media-enabled surprise victory — at least to the political establishment and pollsters — over Hillary Clinton in the presidential election. Parenthetically, a similar unexpected result has apparently just played out in the Australian national elections.
The owner of the irreverent, muckraking Turtleboy Sports blog knows a thing or two, to borrow language from that TV commercial for an insurance company, about online censorship. The entertaining and provocative Massachusetts-based investigative journalism portal — plus its slightly toned down, less vulgar TB Daily News version — focuses mainly on municipal corruption, felonious activity, and welfare scammers and assorted “hoodrats,” rather than sports. Given that the big social media networks have repeatedly de-platformed Turtleboy Sports and associated sites, owner “Uncle Turtleboy” claims that he “invented” tech censorship.
Despite insistence by its CEO Jack Dorsey that it is an impartial platform, a new study suggests that Twitter disproportionately suspends political conservatives or Trump supporters (which is not always the same thing). Dr. Richard Hanania, a postdoctoral fellow at Columbia University, published his findings this week in Quillette.
In the social media context, Big Tech including Facebook has repeatedly denied it is censoring right-of-center thought despite evidence otherwise.
Now it appears that Facebook, a platform that some have derisively nicknamed Fakebook, may have drastically inflated its audience metrics.
From CNBC:
“Facebook knew that it was providing inaccurate data on ad viewership for over a year before telling clients in 2016, according to an updated lawsuit filed on Tuesday. And the problem was much worse than what Facebook reported. In September 2016, Facebook admitted the that it overestimated video ad viewing time averages by up to 60 percent to 80 percent for two years because of a calculation error. According to the lawsuit, which a group of small social media agencies and marketing consultants initially filed in a California court October 2016, Facebook wasn’t sharing the whole picture. The plaintiffs claim that Facebook inflated ad viewing time averages by 150 percent to 900 percent, much higher than reported. When Facebook discovered the issue, it stalled fixing it for more than a year while it came up with a plan to make it seem like it wasn’t a big problem, the lawsuit says.”
Author, filmmaker, and journalist Mike Cernovich, who says he spent six figures to beef up his Facebook video presence but without much return in terms of conversion (i.e., moving product to followers) despite “millions of views,” says he is bringing his own lawsuit against the massive social network.
“I spent over $100,000 on video for my Facebook page based on the false viewer numbers Facebook provided. This is civil fraud and my lawsuit will be filed shortly. I will also be filing a complaint with the [Federal Trade Commission],” Cernovich wrote on Twitter.
Anyone who invested in a multi media team with Facebook has a lawsuit. Strong ones. California law is the strictest in the country for civil fraud.
I even expect Buzzfeed and other outlets to sue. These are big money cases for the lawyers involved, too. https://t.co/9bl9l8nQw6
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