While many were celebrating the July 4th holiday or obsessing on where NBA free-agent superstar Kawhi Leonard would land (literally or figuratively), Make Cernovich made his crowed-sourced documentary film Hoaxed currently available for free via online streaming.
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News broke late last week that news outlets/clickbait mills BuzzFeed and HuffPost were laying off a large number of staffers. Being pink slipped is a very unpleasant experience, but journalists at liberal outlets seldom hesitate to try to get others fired (or worse) for politically incorrect transgressions that often turn out to be fake news. Admittedly, it’s tough times generally for digital publishers, with lesser-known online media outlets struggling to generate traffic and revenue as well. Moreover, the highly publicized round of job reductions at the aforementioned two online media companies was preceded by tweaks to censorship-loving Big Tech’s algorithms that undermined the market share of several conservative-leaning websites.
Do you ever wonder if anything is on the level? Sometimes when you look below the surface, things turn out to be kayfabe, to borrow that professional wrestling slang.
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
Is anyone dying for a recession?
On June 8, HBO comedian Bill Maher claimed that an economic recession is a good thing because it would be a way to get rid of President Donald Trump.
Author, journalist, and filmmaker Mike Cernovich subsequently tweeted that since suicides increase during recessionary periods, “Bill Maher wants people to die,” which caught the attention of the Real Time host.
Last night, Maher satirically agreed, specifically naming Mike Cernovich as a potential recession casualty.
Maher continued, however, that “No, I don’t want him to die. I don’t know who the f**k you are Mike Cernovich, but I want you to live a long, healthy life and get the help you so desperately need.”
Cernovich told Gateway Pundit that “It’s funny. He’s obviously a stealth fan.”
In his monologue, Maher added that “In a situation this grave, it is not crazy to use economic manipulation…A recession is a survivable event What Trump is doing to this country is not.”
Bill Maher can be an amusing and sometimes perceptive observer of the political scene (who knows how many staff writers are feeding him material). To his credit, he occasionally dissents from the liberal, politically correct groupthink on some issues, to the shock of the trained seals in his audience.
That said, he — like many of his contemporaries in Hollywood — appears to be suffering from Trump derangement syndrome.
Video: @BillMaher: “One way you get rid of @realDonaldTrump is a crashing economy, so please bring on the recession. Sorry if that hurts people, but it’s either root for a recession or lose your democracy.” #RealTime #TTT pic.twitter.com/wSd6jNYueC
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