Obama-Era Officials Call for More Government Control of Your Facebook Feed

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Facebook content is already partially curated by government-linked think tanks, but for Samantha Power and others, that is simply not enough.

By Alan Macleod | 26 October 2020

MINT PRESS NEWS — Writing in the Washington Post, senior Obama-era official Samantha Power has called on social media giant Facebook to do more to crush what she calls conspiracy theories and disinformation circulating on its platform.

Describing it as being “overrun with foreign disinformation,” Power demanded Mark Zuckerberg “take far more drastic steps” to “detox” the company’s algorithm. The former United States ambassador to the United Nations compared the viral vitriol circulating on Zuckerberg’s platform to the weaponized disinformation campaigns in the former Yugoslavia, implying that it could help spark a conflict in the United States.

52 percent of Americans get news on Facebook, making it an enormously powerful and influential news service, not just a social media or messaging app. For years, it has at least partially outsourced its news feed algorithm cultivation to the Atlantic Council, a NATO cutout organization funded by the U.S. government and headed and controlled by former CIA chiefs. Thus, the government already has significant control over the content on America’s most important media platform. […]

2 Comments on Obama-Era Officials Call for More Government Control of Your Facebook Feed

  1. Now I am not Chuck Woolery, but I look at that image (Barry and the walking thumb) and I do see a Love Connection.

    Since Big Mike is just a cover at this point (like saying Bill and Hill are happily married still — feeling a little Dr. Seuss at the moment), I wonder how Downtown Reggie Love felt if he saw the image of this match made in heaven?

    I will close with my usual rant when I see Barry falling in love again (evidently that chuckle-head used to frequent the Monster Bar — no I kid you not, that is the bar’s name — when he lived in NYC):

    FREE SASHA AND MALIA!

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