Facebook’s new Policy Communications Manager, Sarah Pollack, has a long history with the Clintons and Obamas.
After making a name for herself in politics, she’s explaining the rationale behind Facebook’s latest conservative purge.
However, today Pollack finds herself on the defensive, backtracking for the social media giant after it banned evangelist Franklin Graham for a three-year-old post. (The Charlotte Observer)
It was a mistake to ban Graham over a 2016 post he made on the site, and a mistake to have taken down the post, the spokesperson said.
Facebook has restored the 2016 post and will apologize in a note to the administrator of Graham’s Facebook page, according to the Facebook spokesperson, who agreed to speak only on background, meaning without the spokesperson’s name.
A member of Facebook’s content review team — the team has 15,000 members — had mistakenly decided the post violated Facebook’s policy that bans “dehumanizing language” and excluding people based on sexual orientation, race and other factors, according to the spokesperson and Facebook’s written policy.
“Why?” Graham asked in a Facebook post on Friday after he said he was banned from posting anything on the site for 24 hours last week. “Because of a post from back in 2016 about North Carolina’s House Bill 2 (the bathroom bill). Facebook said the post went against their ‘community standards on hate speech.’ Facebook is trying to define truth.”
I don’t understand how can Facebook be above the law? If the Constitution says there is freedom of speech then we should not be banned whatever we say. Facebook makes a lot of money from the “sponsors” who post their propaganda on my page and I have no say so about it, I have to put up with it. Facebook gets the income. I get the censure on top of it. So like double crime against me. 1. Censure
2. I should get some of the money (proportionately) the sponsor pays to be able to post on my page. I have 5-10 different sponsors every day that I really don’t want to see!
Just ignore Facebook like i do and it won’t bother you.
Who the fluck is Hillary Flack? Just being named Hillary doesn’t make you a POS.
It is severely ironic that the social media companies are promoting Democrats. The Democrats are promoting socialism where centralized government determines the “will of the people.” In this system politicians determining the will of the people have the power to decide whatever they choose to determine as the will of the people. The politicians have all the power. The social media companies will then have no power to decide what to edit or ban; that power will go to a government miner. Facebook, Twitter, etc. will fall under complete government control. These companies are working to put themselves out of business and their owners back into the general workforce – after all the owners’ wealth is confiscated – for the good of the people.
Talk about irony! Who won the popular vote (the will of the people)? It wasn’t Trump.
The country is not evenly divided among occupations and lifestyles, which has MUCH effect on political voting. The Founders created the Electoral College to have a more BALANCED representation in voting, just like we have not only a House, based on one method of tallying voters, and a Senate, based on another.
The vast majority of voters throughout the country – in the derogatorily-named “fly over states” – vote very different from a mere handful of states on the coasts – states who do very little manual labor comparatively and derive their income from manipulating other people’s labor and money value in the enormous inland territories.
Presidents have won the electoral college before that have NOT won the popular vote – and this is how it was designed, to give balance.
The Founders knew well that 51% of the vote of ANYTHING could be bullied into existence – they saw it happen in England and throughout history many times, called it “mob rule” and vowed that America would never succumb to such mob rule.
Learn some history, please.
Stop pushing this false narrative.
The issue that I have with Facebook and Twitter and Google, etc., banning conservatives is that they took tax incentives to grow and start their companies. They didn’t take tax incentives from just liberal tax payers, they took incentives from all tax payers. They were and are being subsidized by the American people as a whole. If they hadn’t taken one penny in tax incentives then, as a private company, they could do whatever they wanted but they did take our money so they can’t do this and Congress needs to step in.
I am unaware of any tax incentives for Google, Twitter or Facebook. What exactly are you talking about?
Facebook book should be shut down and banned in the US.
Banned and Shut Down For Sure. Twitter also who are playing the same game. Conservatives Must Stand Up with others to Push Back.
Twitter shut down Author David Horowitz today after the others the last few days.
Feels like we are living in a Communist Country. Facebook is also banning those with certain opinions. WTF
I agree.
Oh that’s rich, Billy B.! A suggestion to shut down Facebook because of a decision to delete a posting that was reversed in 24 hours. How does that fit with Franklin Graham’s concern that his speech was being “policed”?
I unfriended Facebook 5 years ago. The whole concept is just too dangerous.
I would just love to be unsubscribed. from Facebook…anytime.
facebook agrees to reinstate Mr Grahams posts because he has clout. They continue to ban conservatives like myself when they don’t like what we are posting. Stuff we see as being true.
I wonder if Face book has any ex military that have seen what a building looks like after it is hit with about 50 155 mm rockets
I cancelled my account several months ago because Zucker iS A PARASITE! fACEBOOK SHOULD BE BANNED PERIOD!
He sure is.
The First Amendment means nothing to these assholes.
If I could pull a switch and shut them all off, I wonder how they would like that.
Facebook is a joke!!! They’d be lost if every conservative deleted their account.