Facebook Censoring Posts by DNC March Organizers
Spoke to Billy Taylor this morning, the lead organizer for The March on DNC who is working with many groups to coordinate events planned for the thousands of people expected to go to Philadelphia and show the DNC they can't ignore Bernie and our movement. He had some bad news. Facebook itself is actively blocking posts from organizers to their own FB pages for these events
Take a look at a couple of screenshots he sent me:
And the second one:
According to Taylor, these are not isolated incidents. Facebook is preventing the organizers of the Philly events from providing information to the people who we know will be coming to Philadelphia to protest the DNC, you know the people building a wall to keep all of us "peons" and "serfs" out of sight, out of mind, and out of their hair. Even posts with links to the non-Facebook webpages of these organizations are being censored. Critcal information, including requests for donations of food, shelter, tents, water, and medical supplies are not getting sent out.
The gates are being locked up tight to prevent any information about these many events to get out. FYI, Facebook staffers ...
...contribute more to Hillary Clinton than to any other presidential candidate — and among the donors is an executive in charge of trending topics."
At least 78 Facebook employees, who work on everything from engineering to marketing, have funneled cash to Clinton.
They include, Tom Stocky, a vice president whose team oversees trending topics. He donated $2,700, the maximum allowed, on Oct. 26 to Hillary for America, records show
This is not the only accusation that Facebook censors information that would be detrimental to the DNC and/or Hillary Clinton. Wikileaks also accused Facebook of censoring information regarding the release of Hillary Clinton's emails back in March of this year, to name just one example.
On March 16, WikiLeaks launched a searchable archive for 30,322 emails & email attachments sent to and from Hillary Clinton’s private email server while she was Secretary of State. The 50,547 pages of documents span from 30 June 2010 to 12 August 2014, Wikileaks said and added that 7,570 of the documents were sent by the former US Secretary of State and now Democratic front-runner for the Presidential elections.
Two days after the publication of the emails, Wikileaks posted a pic on Twitter asking from Facebook to let its users connect with the link which reveals Clinton’s emails. The Twitter post show a pic in which it seems that a Facebook user was unable to get to the archive because Facebook posted a message saying: “Sorry, this action isn’t available right now…As a security precaution you can’t take this action because your computer may be infected with a virus or a malicious browser extension…”
Please spread the word about Facebook censoring and shutting down the speech of the groups and their leaders who are organizing the marches, rallies and other events in Philadelphia during the Democratic National Convention.
Thanks
Steve
Comments
Incredible. In other countries, following orders
Hope to hear more about this. In other countries and in 1984, it is the government that controls the media. Here it is the corporations and the billionaires who own the corporate media.
I am seldom on Facebook and I am not going to Philly for the march, so without articles like this I would not know about it.
The Intercept, Thom Hartmann, TYT, etc should be notified and pick up this story.
The establishment has lost the battle to maintain neo liberal economics at all costs ...
Naomi Klein posted this yesterday
The Best Has Yet To Come
So why not organize on Redditt?
FB is good for selfies and pictures of food.
"Religion is what keeps the poor from murdering the rich."--Napoleon
Lol, and omg! (Smh, srsly!)
That's pretty much a thorough summation of FB, as far as I'm concerned
It's a nice place to post food porn and pics of the fam on vacation, but for organising and activism? Too troll vulnerable and clearly, too easily subverted.
Twitter works better, IMHO, for organising and fast news dissemination.
"When the powerless are shut out of the media, we will make the media irrelevant" ~Anonymous~
twitter censors as well
Remember #WhichHillary suddenly vanishing from the trending list?
Yep, but
Twitter doesn't (apparently) ((yet!)) censor message content. So if your trying to organize an event, March, protest, etc. the tweet should post just fine, even if it doesn't 'trend' accurately at some point.
"When the powerless are shut out of the media, we will make the media irrelevant" ~Anonymous~
It is free and relatively easy to set up
a WordPress blog. There are also some other free website/blog builders that are also free. Take it out of mass social media (FB/Twitter/etc.) which is censored and monitored. Bulk emails can also be used. There is also this fancy invention called the telephone.
We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.--Aristotle
If there is no struggle there is no progress.--Frederick Douglass
Yeah but
FB IS where all the young people hang out, and FB helped put Bernie on the map in cyberworld.
Well done is better than well said-Ben Franklin
Yeah but
FB IS where all the young people hang out, and FB helped put Bernie on the map in cyberspace.
Well done is better than well said-Ben Franklin
Sigh
Didn't know the other post took.
Well done is better than well said-Ben Franklin
Unfortunately they started on FB
"You can't just leave those who created the problem in charge of the solution."---Tyree Scott
EXACTLY! I keep track of my kid and when I can't get him any
other way I bring up the old Facebook and wait until he hops on. I know he's love to unfriend me but he doesn't dare.
EDIT: I would NEVER embarrass him on there unless he was being a sexist pig and then, oh well...
But it is a great tool for tracking the kid down. But first he's gotta make the mistake of 'friending' you.
I'm tired of this back-slapping "Isn't humanity neat?" bullshit. We're a virus with shoes, okay? That's all we are. - Bill Hicks
Politics is the entertainment branch of industry. - Frank Zappa
i disagree.
The facebook group I am a part of Bay Area For Bernie is super active and we have been connecting very aggressively through it, making plans for action and sharing views. In my view it doesnt help that you are so dismissive. Without that group many people in the san francisco Bay area that are now connected would not be. I don't think i have ever posted a selfie and never post about food
"If you're on fire, and running down the street, people will get out of your way." Davey- Cordovan Athabascan Native
Wait, I thought Instagram
was the top spot for selfies and food. I am behind the times. I still prefer a desktop and my tablet has disappeared and the battery has run low and I can't find it. And I do not like Android, not at all. The tablet will be unburied at some point.
Hey! my dear friends or soon-to-be's, JtC could use the donations to keep this site functioning for those of us who can still see the life preserver or flotsam in the water.
Nami Klein should stop flying
like last week. My FB bell is dinging about 2X/30 sec now. No shutdown of that group. Who is real, however...
Hey! my dear friends or soon-to-be's, JtC could use the donations to keep this site functioning for those of us who can still see the life preserver or flotsam in the water.
This doesn't surprise me at all Did you see the google story
that John Oliver did on Last week Tonight? About how they "Censored" search results to favor Clinton?
It was pretty damning. I don't see a link for that segment on Youtube yet unfortunately
"I used to vote Republican & Democrat, I also used to shit my pants. Eventually I got smart enough to stop doing both things." -Me
And did you see the Google response?
Not the response to John Oliver, since I haven't seen that one yet. But their response to that article That they ALWAYS censor pairing well-known names with the word criminal in search auto-suggest?
http://www.usatoday.com/story/tech/news/2016/06/10/google-says-search-isnt-biased-toward-hillary-clinton/85725014/
No, that is not your job, Google. Your job in the recommended searches is simply to reflect what most other people are searching.
Well, technically, I guess their job is whatever they want it to be, since they are a private company, but I think we were led to believe those results reflected what people were actually searching for.
Actually, Google can pretty much do whatever
the hell they want. Prior to Google, there was NO search engine. Now you have a plethora of them to use. Don't like what they do? Then use something like Bing or ASK or anything else you want as a search engine. But in essence, Google only answers to their board, and as the originator of the search engine, they can do what they want.
Yeah, I have stopped using them.
Although on Chrome, you actually can't default to DuckDuckGo for the search bar, at least I haven't figure out how to do it.
Bing is terrible, Yahoo is worse.
Google is really VERY good, but the ads following me around the internet were getting too creepy.
Ad BLock Plus
Free software, no ads. I get it from my browser, Firefox.
Excellent. NO ADS!
No ads, but weird finds on Goog after.
Or worse, odd emails (and lucky me, yahoo is my host). Host, such a term.
Hey! my dear friends or soon-to-be's, JtC could use the donations to keep this site functioning for those of us who can still see the life preserver or flotsam in the water.
I use both Adblock and ghostery
Ghostery is supposed to keep sites from tracking you, but I do more computer stuff in my iPad in the afternoon, so I'm getting weird emails. Still looking for an anti tracker for iPad
I only signed up on FB to sell my photos and then I got friend requests from people from my past. Like my Jr. high school coach and old friends from another state I haven't spoken to in 10 years. How the hell did they know about those friends?
BTW, people have been asking about OPOL. He's busy on FB if anyone wants the link.
I don't know why he quit posting here. I know why he quit posting over there though and I'm glad he did.
There's still some people trying to fight back, but the bots are winning.
Kos wrote another shitty diary and someone called him out on it in another one. Armand was being the biggest dick in it. As usual.
There were problems with running a campaign of Joy while committing a genocide? Who could have guessed?
Harris is unburdened of speaking going forward.
Why not
use Firefox? I honestly do not understand why people use Chrome.
"I can't understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I'm frightened of the old ones."
John Cage
Try Startpage
it does a Google search for you. Google doesn't know who you are, so they can't track you.
On to Biden since 1973
YEAH, thank you for startpage eom
I like dogpile
because it's all the search engines at once.
Add this to the list
of reasons why I don't facebook in any way shape or form and have absolutely no use for Mark Fuckerberg.
I'm great at multi-tasking. I can waste time, be unproductive, and procrastinate all at the same time.
I second that
I have never been on facebook and have heard way to many horror stories about data monitoring, and censorship to even consider it. Mark Zuckerberg and sit on my facebook.
The people, united, will never be defeated.
Youtube was showing me weird results
When I tried to search for Jill Stein with the time filter set for "today". The real results were there for a fraction of a second and then bogus results with no Jill Stein. I think TPTB realize that she is a viable plan B and are trying to shut her down now.
Beware the bullshit factories.
The google ownership shows.
So much for net neutrality. What is the answer? Better, what was the question?
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I don't do facebook
but I'm familiar with it. Kids and wife on it all the time. Would it be possible to go to zukerburgs facebook page and bombard him with questions concerning this? Or even create a page that they would probably censor right away....
The great thing about that is...
If you don't do Facebook. Facebook can't DO You.
I never created an account on the thing, and I have no regrets in not doing so either.
He often shows his friendly mug
asking users to "friend" him. I have never had the desire. Not so into identity suck-ups.
Hey! my dear friends or soon-to-be's, JtC could use the donations to keep this site functioning for those of us who can still see the life preserver or flotsam in the water.
I have not had any issues
with the post I did this morning for your other post Steven. So maybe the group is being targeted because it's bigger and more noticeable? The simple way around that is to do what I did, as a smaller user, have them all post the details anyways. FB can not and won't continue to spend all day and manhours blocking them all. And just keep bombarding with the links each time they try.
Mr. taylor beleives these specific groups
were targeted since they are the ones organizing the marches, rallies, and other events. Mr. Taylor is the individual who obtained 4 permits from the city to use FDR Park etc. for such purposes.
"You can't just leave those who created the problem in charge of the solution."---Tyree Scott
Facebook's 'reason' could point to an additional reality
Whether or not Facebook's censoring of protest-organizing messages is being done with malicious political intent by the company (I'm no arguing against that!) the reason for the censorship points, imo, to another possibility:
The Occupy movement (and others) have taught us that the Federal government can and will surveil activists and organizers. Some of those surveillance methods include inserting malware packets into individual computers. It is entirely possible that Facebook's computer systems are actually recognizing malware present in activist/organizer computers, which would mean that the FB computers are just doing their job (and could be doing so without any political malice on FB's part).
I think *both* questions should be asked and answered: (1) is the censorship a malicious political act by Facebook? and (2) If FB's systems are legitimately finding malware, when will FB announce this along with identifying the specific malware packages found?
IMO, Facebook has a public obligation as a 'Citizen of the Internet' to reveal the identities of the malware packages being found on citizen's computers, regardless of their source(s), and whether or not the source(s) are yet known.
This malware must be revealed so that the online security professionals who continually review newly-appearing malware can analyze those packages, publish information for the public about the malware, and offer solutions to the public for the malware. Knowing the identities of the malware is also necessary for anti-malware software companies can devise 'fixes' for the public's use.
So, if FB is going to claim 'malware detected' as its reason for censorship, then --
--Facebook, NAME THAT MALWARE!
You suggest that groups deemed subversive
by some (of many) agencies may have their computers targeted for malware. Or hacked. Malware is an entry point for hackers? So anything involving groups wanting change in the system better have a good IT crew and a hard firewall. Amirite?
I have two software systems (waging battle against each other) scanning for incoming malware. Some (new) always sneaks in, some cannot be totally removed, if I believe the scans. I don't want to scrub my OS and rebuild, I do have multiple remote backups.
Hey! my dear friends or soon-to-be's, JtC could use the donations to keep this site functioning for those of us who can still see the life preserver or flotsam in the water.
Yes
I sure will.
CFland
FB wont let me get on the
TRNN page or use the search function.
Solidarity forever
We need to develop our own
We need to develop our own internet infrastructure and get away from FB, Google, and the like who are taking over the internet.
Facebook? Nein, danke!
Why oh why do people who are supposed to know better turn their lives over to corporate .01%er monstrosities like FB in the first place? Its exceedingly profitable business model consists of gathering up every last scrap of your personal information, packaging it all, and selling it on. Not only that, but the way it structures your use forces what you are as a complete person into pre-defined, easily marketable compartments. And when I try to explain that, all I get are the blank looks and quick dismissals reminiscent of the brainwashed.
Never been on it, never will, and your Facebook can kiss my Assbook.
I just posted the link to your article on my Facebook feed
I asked each of my friends to share it with all of their friends and also to TWEET THE LINK ADDRESS.. which will spread it even faster...
FUCK ZUCKERBERG'S KORPORATE BULLSHIT-FEED.
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Muerte al fascismo. Muerte a la tiranía. colapso total de los que promueven tampoco. A la pared con el unico porciento%
I just posted the link to your article on my Facebook feed
I asked each of my friends to share it with all of their friends and also to TWEET THE LINK ADDRESS.. which will spread it even faster...
FUCK ZUCKERBERG'S KORPORATE BULLSHIT-FEED.
******************************
Muerte al fascismo. Muerte a la tiranía. colapso total de los que promueven tampoco. A la pared con el unico porciento%
i disagree
The facebook group I am a part of Bay Area For Bernie is super active and we have been connecting very aggressively through it, making plans for action and sharing views. In my view it doesnt help that you are so dismissive. Without that group many people in the san francisco Bay area that are now connected would not be.
By the way, I have never posted a recipe or a selfie on facebook. You don't use facebook, i get that, but you are also missing out on connrecting with a ton of people you will never otherwise connect with.
"If you're on fire, and running down the street, people will get out of your way." Davey- Cordovan Athabascan Native
Goodsearch works well for me.
I believe Yahoo is connected and may be actually doing the searches, but I have not noticed problems. Goodsearch has been my choice for years because every search you do contributes a penny to whatever charity you choose. Mine is the animal rescue place, Best Friends. Those pennies add up, and the amount that goes to charities, many small and local, is significant.
Barbara Marquardt