Facebook will help Trump by letting political ads contain lies

I rarely use Facebook because of the harm they are doing to our elections. Also, Zuckerberg met with Trump recently. I guess he’ll let Trump’s campaign post lies in return for not breaking Facebook up or some deal like that.

Facebook board member and billionaire investor Peter Thiel has reportedly extended his influence over CEO Mark Zuckerberg and was key in the controversial decision to continue accepting political ads ahead of the 2020 election and to not fact-check them. https://t.co/CTar3SEWNG
— Citizens for Ethics (@CREWcrew) December 18, 2019

Republican billionaire Peter Thiel, a member of Facebook's board, has convinced Zuckerberg to stand by his decision to allow politicians to lie in Facebook

Thiel, Zuckberberg and Trump had dinner at the White House in Octoberhttps://t.co/hn2Dn2NGTg
— Judd Legum (@JuddLegum) December 17, 2019

"An explosive new study reveals that political misinformation is running rampant on Facebook as the 2020 election approaches… The study found that most negative misinformation (62%) was about Democrats or liberals…" https://t.co/b5AXLOFYIe
— Brian Stelter (@brianstelter) November 6, 2019

Think your Thanksgiving was rough? Imagine having to explain to family members that your company isn’t responsible for destroying democracy. Story w/ ⁦@MikeIsaac⁩ on how FB made a chat bot to help their employees get their angry uncle off their back. https://t.co/MiEB46cfVc
— Sheera Frenkel (@sheeraf) December 2, 2019

[Stammering, stumbling] "Uh no; I mean, I don't think that that's …. that's … I think some of the stuff that people talk about or think gets discussed in discussions are not really …. how that works. [Voice speeds up] I also want to respect that it was a private dinner." https://t.co/Lrpayq8fnS
— David Frum (@davidfrum) December 2, 2019

Facebook says that a post from QAnon supporter Danielle Stella, a congressional candidate running against Ilhan Omar, that calls for Omar to be hung "doesn't violate our Community Standards." She was suspended last night on Twitter for the same post. https://t.co/EGs0Jh4JbH pic.twitter.com/mPgU9cYqm7
— Alex Kaplan (@AlKapDC) November 27, 2019

1. The Trump campaign is blanketing Facebook today w/a claim that has been debunked by its official fact-checking partners.

If a non-candidate tried to run this ad it would be taken down

But because Facebook exempts candidates from fact-checking, users are being misinformed pic.twitter.com/1LPSp0zby2
— Judd Legum (@JuddLegum) November 26, 2019

Stunning story that shows how Facebook worked overtime for Trump — crafting digital strategy, creating custom code, and experimenting with different ways to maximize pro-Donald content. https://t.co/1EhbK1js8Z
— Noah Shachtman (@NoahShachtman) November 23, 2019

The top 10 "impeachment" @Facebook posts over the past 24 hours in terms of # of interactions come from:

1. Donald J Trump
2. Fox News
3. Fox News
4. Donald J Trump
5. Fox News
6. Daily Wire
7. Daily Wire
8. Fox News
9. Donald J. Trump
10. Fox News https://t.co/bLyPf9xheN
— Will Ragland (@citizenwillis) November 21, 2019

This is deeply concerning for reasons that have nothing to do Russia or Democratic ad spend https://t.co/NtDXYxnoMe
— Dan Pfeiffer (@danpfeiffer) November 21, 2019

>> @b_fung: "Facebook has become a fertile breeding ground for disinformation about Congress's impeachment inquiry, according to a new report by the civil society group Avaaz." https://t.co/SaOjNC8yUP
— Brian Stelter (@brianstelter) November 6, 2019

Why does Mark Zuckerberg refuse to hold Donald Trump to the same standards he would a toothpaste company? https://t.co/iymKG4goeE
— Slate (@Slate) October 31, 2019

.⁦@MikeIsaac⁩ obtained a letter signed by hundreds of Facebook employees protesting the company’s decision to allow politicians to lie in ads https://t.co/Juusd4EHL5
— Judd Legum (@JuddLegum) October 28, 2019

my latest—let’s just be honest abt what’s going on ; https://t.co/xDf9qyJrlT
— Eric Boehlert (@EricBoehlert) October 27, 2019

Facebook is deleting pro-vaccine information from health departments and medical providers, while letting anti-vaccine conspiracy theories stay up. https://t.co/GeefeAy4h5
— Caroline Orr (@RVAwonk) October 26, 2019

Facebook lists Breitbart as a “trusted” news source?! https://t.co/PPvmJzlsQ1
— Jennifer Cohn (@jennycohn1) October 25, 2019

Misleading headlines

When Trump’s lies are published without indicating they are false, the media is misleading the public.

The word “Falsely” is only seven characters. https://t.co/bB0ItkIxJj
— Brian Schatz (@brianschatz) May 28, 2020

Who at the @nytimes thought “pressed his knee into George Floyd’s neck” was the appropriate way to describe a killing we all watched unfold over 8 mins??

This is a good example of normalizing phrasing of a very horrific and not-normal event.

Please stop sucking. It’s important pic.twitter.com/0pfdkv924E
— Soledad O'Brien (@soledadobrien) May 29, 2020

“We need to talk about the problem with headlines,” says @BrianStelter. “We are 2 1/2 years into the Trump presidency and news outlets are still putting Trump’s far-fetched and false assertions right in the headlines and sometimes right on the TV banners.” pic.twitter.com/nfDOH0qrM0
— Reliable Sources (@ReliableSources) June 23, 2019

examples

The Hill, which is terrible, is a good example of uncritically posting the President’s chronic fabrications. This is bad journalism. https://t.co/RaTE6K2YAj
— Soledad O'Brien (@soledadobrien) June 23, 2019

Headline writers should note there’s a photo of them together in the piece https://t.co/zOgjQdEKb6
— Michelle Goldberg (@michelleinbklyn) June 21, 2019

We have deleted an earlier tweet to this article that was poorly worded and did not properly reflect the story. https://t.co/MDJz98FYeJ
— New York Times World (@nytimesworld) June 4, 2019

Ahead of an official visit to the U.K., Pres. Trump pushed back against media reports that he called Meghan Markle, now the Duchess of Sussex, “nasty” in a recent interview. https://t.co/nuP7MuCkiN
— ABC News Politics (@ABCPolitics) June 3, 2019

This is wrong. There is proof he called her nasty. Don’t just report his lies.

Facebook must be investigated

I am on Facebook but don’t use it much anymore.

My account has been hacked several times.

I don’t approve of their role in the 2016 election.

I don’t approve of how they handle personal data.

My Op-Ed: It’s time for a real investigation into Facebook. https://t.co/rTJFtckyOG
— David Cicilline (@davidcicilline) March 19, 2019

Breaking News: U.S. federal prosecutors are conducting a criminal investigation into data deals Facebook struck with some of the world’s largest tech companies https://t.co/ijmZ3jppME
— The New York Times (@nytimes) March 13, 2019

There is a data-industrial complex, and this is what it looked like, writes @alexismadrigal: https://t.co/UXcZ2Un6qp
— The Atlantic (@TheAtlantic) December 23, 2018

Facebook's audience evolved from being pretty left-leaning in 2012 to more or less down the middle in 2016. Not unreasonable to assume it will be right-leaning by 2020, especially for news, as right-leaning content has been overperforming there since last algorithm tweaks. https://t.co/4AWSGGL6oI
— Nate Silver (@NateSilver538) March 19, 2019

Facebook's News Feed algorithm seems to be surfacing more fake news than ever. https://t.co/7b1OMXFlBY pic.twitter.com/L1J6yYgJKF
— Nate Silver (@NateSilver538) March 16, 2019

This new report by NewsWhip is really troubling. Look at the most shared and most commented stories on Facebook in 2019 to date… Some real news, but a whole lotta lies and rage and fear-mongering https://t.co/LGs3IUnL7p pic.twitter.com/m5PWhN0c1w
— Brian Stelter (@brianstelter) March 16, 2019

What you don't know about Facebook is even worse than what you do https://t.co/7EEayTToeq
— Mother Jones (@MotherJones) December 5, 2018

There were 100 instances in the last six months of Facebook users advocating to shoot or kill others, immigrants and people of color in particular https://t.co/1rlzWoBNu0
— The Daily Beast (@thedailybeast) December 4, 2018

"Did we ask them to do work on George Soros? Yes." Facebook took responsibility for hiring a lobbying company that pushed negative stories about Facebook’s critics. https://t.co/vpcMGa4nlO
— The New York Times (@nytimes) November 23, 2018