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Former Disinformation Board Executive Nina Jankowicz, Other DHS Officials, Planned Meeting with Facebook’s Head of Security
January 12, 2023 by
Records obtained by Sen. Josh Hawley (R-MO) show that Nina Jankowicz â the executive director of the Department of Homeland Securityâs (DHS) now-terminated Disinformation Governance Board â and other DHS officials planned to meet with Facebook (now known as Meta) Head of Security Nathaniel Gleicher, who served under that title when the company suppressed the New
FBI, SEC Join Investigation Into Facebookâs Exploitation Of User Data With Three Other Federal Agencies.
July 3, 2018 by
The FBI and the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) are reportedly joining the Department of Justice (DOJ) and Federal Trade Commission (FTC) in investigating Facebook over its user management practices. Authorities specifically want to know more about how the now-defunct data analytics firm known as Cambridge Analytica was able to acquire the personal data of […]
Facebookâs âFavorsâ for Obama Campaign May Have Violated Federal Law.
May 24, 2018 by
Controversy continues to swirl around how the consulting firm Cambridge Analytica obtained personal data from over 50 million Facebook users without their knowledge and used it to target ads to individuals in an effort to help Donald Trump be elected president in 2016. But a more serious case of apparent misconduct involves Facebook data going […]
Report: Facebookâs Recent Algorithm Change Is Crushing Conservative Sites, Boosting Liberals.
March 14, 2018 by
A recent study by George Upper at The Western Journal confirms that Facebookâs much-publicized demotion of publishersâ content in usersâ news feeds has negatively impacted conservative-leaning publishers significantly more than liberal-leaning outlets. According to the report â Liberal publishers have gained about 2 percent more web traffic from Facebook than they were getting prior to […]
Facebook’s Zuckerberg Reveals 7-Point Plan To Eradicate “Misinformation”
November 20, 2016 by
Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg has a message for his billion-plus users: “you’re not capable of deciding for yourself what is ‘news’ and what is not, so we will do it for you.” Facebook has been widely blamed – by the left-leaning mainstream media – for allowing the spread of online misinformation, amusingly much of it […]
Weâre Going To Reveal The Political Biases Of Facebookâs Trending News Team
July 14, 2016 by
Earlier today, Pamela Geller announced here on Breitbart that she plans to sue Facebook due to the platformâs constant, systemic, and unfair suspensions of conservative users. Itâs a battle thatâs been a long time coming for the social network, and over the next few days Breitbart will highlight precisely why. This is a platform thatâs happy to suspend activists […]
Facebook’s double standards
January 8, 2016 by
A Facebook experiment confirmed that despite âCommunity Standardâ rules, Facebook makes decisions that are extremely biased regarding material they allow and material they remove. At the end of last year, the Israel Law Center (ILC) conducted a test that proved the point (described in this short video). On December 28, the ILC opened two inciting […]
