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the "facebook whistleblower" is an op to push for more censorship. her today's testimony is for pushing more censorship to stem - get this - the danger of "political polarization" and "stoking division". manufacturing consent much?
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even worse, the "harming kids" narrative is based on an online poll (!). apparently 15% teens responded FB makes their lives worse, 34% that it makes their lives *better*, and 51% didn't lean either way.
this is how a "whistleblower" made it to congressional hearing lol
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the unsaid part is that FB is killing the old style media, and their narrative-making capability.
the other unsaid part is journalists were told to stop being little hall monitors.
it absolutely is a media hit op.
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note the format: for the last ~5 years the media were poisoning the well wrt. Facebook, by posting story after story of "blue site bad".
this all came to head today - a hitherto uknown-nobody whistleblower got in front of nodding-in-agreement congress in 2 days.
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this was in the works ever since Zuckerberg "sold out progressive cause" by selling to Trump's 2016 campaign the same data he sold to Obama's campaign earlier.
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for extra irony:
the media thinks itself so much better than Facebook that it lobbied - and got! - a law mandating FB pays *it* for it being able to post their content to FB.
that's in Australia.
bbc.com/news/world-aus…
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in US power flows a bit differently:
the media are gunning for new regulation that would force FB to limit "divisive ", "polarizing" content, etc. - nebulous concepts as *decided on the spot* by the reporting in the media.
so you won't be able to say your politics.
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a better take:
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i got no take here
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imagine the outrage if a random nobody posted this to Facebook,
rather than esteemed journalist Ashley to an esteemed newspaper Jezebel.
i disavow.
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media's strategy:
- amplify select voices of people who already agree with their propaganda ("the facebook whistleblower")
- prompt insiders to issue sweeping proposals on the wave of media's reporting
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a more in-depth write-up on the op to subjugate Facebook:
greenwald.substack.com/p/democrats-an…
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hmmmmm
web.archive.org/web/2019032408…
that twitter account no longer exists apparently
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a good discussion of the subject
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