It turns out Facebook is joining hands with Twitter with its plan to silence GOP supporters this coming 2022 midterm election. Well, these mascots are hiding from the word “protect” to make it less obvious.
As the United States marches toward another election season, social media companies are steeling themselves for a deluge of political misinformation. Now, companies like Facebook, are trumpeting a series of election tools and strategies that look similar to their approaches in previous years – which we all know how that turned out!
The Big Tech giant will not allow for ads connected to electoral, political, and social issues to be edited in the week that the midterm elections take place. This is part of what Facebook calls election “safeguards” that will be used to police and approve content during the week of the midterms.
Facebook’s Global Affairs President Nick Clegg, who previously served as the Leader of the Liberal Democrats and Member of Parliament in the British House of Commons, published a press release where he said Facebook is one of the most popular vehicles for disseminating political news. For that reason, it needs to “protect elections online.”
Clegg unashamedly gloated that they will partner with the Biden administration through an alliance with the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency.
“Meta invests a huge amount to protect elections online — not just during election periods but at all times. We spent approximately $5 billion on safety and security last year alone, and have hundreds of people dedicated to this work permanently embedded across more than 40 teams. With each major election around the world — including national elections this year in France and the Philippines — we incorporate the lessons we learn to help stay ahead of emerging threats,” the press release stated.
Here’s Clegg’s full press release:
Our approach to the 2022 US midterms applies learnings from the 2020 election cycle and exceeds the measures we implemented during the last midterm election in 2018. This includes advanced security operations to fight foreign interference and domestic influence campaigns, our network of independent fact-checking partners, our industry-leading transparency measures around political advertising and pages, as well as new measures to help keep poll workers safe. As we did in 2020, we have a dedicated team in place to combat election and voter interference while also helping people get reliable information about when and how to vote.
Our teams fight both foreign interference and domestic influence operations, and have exposed and disrupted dozens of networks that have attempted to interfere with US elections. We’ve banned more than 270 white supremacist organizations, and removed 2.5 million pieces of content tied to organized hate globally on Facebook in the first quarter of 2022. Of the content we removed, nearly 97% of it was found by our systems before someone reported it. We’re also investing in proactive threat detection and expanding our policies to help address coordinated harassment and threats of violence against election officials and poll workers.
As was the case in the US in 2020, election-related content we will remove includes misinformation about the dates, locations, times, and methods of voting; misinformation about who can vote, whether a vote will be counted, and qualifications for voting; and calls for violence related to voting, voter registration, or the administration or outcome of an election. We will reject ads encouraging people not to vote or calling into question the legitimacy of the upcoming election.
Our friends from ‘The Gateway Pundit’ commented further:
While Clegg did not specify how Facebook will address content from left-wing groups, we already know what they do to protect leftists. The New York Post was locked out of Twitter and unable to post stories after revealing they had obtained a hard drive from Hunter Biden’s abandoned laptop.
They routinely block content and suspend or deplatform opinions that go against their narrative. They even have a list of ‘dangerous’ people and organizations.
For years Facebook has targeted conservative outlets. A WSJ report revealed the bias of the Facebook staff. They have enlisted ‘fact-checkers’ which they later admitted in court are actually “protected opinions” used by the company to limit speech.
NEW: Facebook asserts in a court filing that ‘fact checks’ created by third-party organizations and used to remove content or to suspend users are nothing more than ‘protected opinions’https://t.co/e5JsGymEhA
— Insider Paper (@TheInsiderPaper) December 10, 2021
Now, it’s up to America First nationalists to offer up the solution of enacting an Internet Bill of Rights to fully protect free speech online from censorship — both private and governmental forms. Not reining in Big Tech will result in the absolute decimation of right-wing discourse online.
Under this scenario, the cultural Left will be allowed to dominate political conversations and advance their agenda with virtually no resistance.
Source: TheGatewayPundit