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“Big shouldered Uncle Frank”

Interesting take on Facebooks stance on lies and far right content and the post-truth news era that we have today.

I do believe it’s the reason you have so many deluded souls like mrhappy quoting deliberate fake news as truth and talking about ‘mainstream media fake news’ nonsense. They go into an echosphere where every article/video you read panders to a political leaning.

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AOC is a legend, look at her lighting up Fuckerberg.

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I really hope Warren wins 2020 and follows through with breaking up facebook under a monopolies and mergers bill and also legislate them

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New poll had Biden ahead by a record amount of course :xhaka:

American ‘moderates’ are morons.

The first thing is, is this registered democrats or the whole population? Because I’d imagine the registered Democrats vote for a more left wing candidate on average.

Also while he does have a few points lead, he started with a far higher lead and Warren’s lead has been a continual upward trajectory.

If Bernie realises he can’t wins and backs Warren it will give her a big bump. As it is I don’t see how Bernie can win, his is dropping in numbers as Warren rises.

If Biden runs, Trump will make it a smear campaign. Although I do genuinely wonder if certain swing voters in the mid west purple states are less likely to come out for a woman than they would a man.

But Warren’s message has continued to see her popularity grow. As a billionaire herself she is in a great position to finance a campaign.

Because of all of this establishment centrists Dems are actually panicked that they won’t get their corporate candidate in Biden and they’re disussing bringing back Hillary or bringing in Michelle Obama or Bloomberg.

Although ofcourse this is concerning for Warren

Potentially big news…

Among Americans who say their 2020 vote depends on who is nominated…

25% support Bernie Sanders for the Democratic nomination
12% support Gabbard
12% Biden
9% Warren
6% Buttigieg

(Sample size is only just over 800 voters)

And you are not doing the same by embedding tyt one of the most disingenuous progressive outlets out. Talk about a kettle calling a pit black :man_facepalming:t5:

No TYT don’t lie and spread disinformation like the sources you post. They’re biased supporters of progressive politics and openly admit it but they are genuine investigative journalists. In that they actually look to expose missinformation from other media sources and . Having a bias isn’t the same as spreading missinformation in the echospere bubble yourself and mhappy live in

In fact I’d challenge you to pick an instance where they spread missinformation. You won’t find one.

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She such an idiot she doesn’t understand Daily caller has been verified by an outside body.

This woman is an idiot.

You can barely string a sentence together or spell words with more than four sylllables in them, bit rich for you to go round calling people idiots.

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Nope

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The outside body is a far right organisation you utter cretin. The Daily Caller was founded by white supremist Richard Spencer has an editor and endless writers who’ve written for and supported white supremist organisations or publications. This is a way that Facebook sloppey shoulders the blame and takes no accountability for using far right sources.

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I actually types quickly due to me just about to enter a meeting, but since it helps you:

“She’s such an idiot”

Does that help you? Defender of leftist sensibilities and arbiter of justice and morality; let’s not forget the high chancellor of written English.

Wrong daily caller was founded by tucker Carlson and an Indian guy named Neil Patel.

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So clearly you don’t know what you are talking about; I mean at least get the facts right about the founders to look a little credible :man_shrugging:t5:

Right, the first guy is a supporter of an Indian politician they’ve criticised and he lies in the first couple of minutes, lying that they’re shills for democratic national congress. In actual fact they regularly criticise the DNC and corporate politicians within the democratic party. So I stopped listening when he produced that particular lie.

The second guy is a couple of Sam Harris cheerleaders complaining about the way Cenk represents Sam Harris whining that Cenk represents Harris as generalising about all Muslims. But Harris does regularly make generalisations about Muslims. In actual fact Sam Harris is an apologist for mass murder of Palestinians and other Muslim peoples based on their religious beliefs.

A list of Sam Harris quotes:

“Muslim immigrants often show little inclination to acquire the secular and civil values of their host countries…demanding tolerance for their backwardness, their misogyny, their anti-Semitism…” - Sam Harris, 2004 https://samharris.org/the-reality-of-islam/… 3/

“It is time we admitted that we are not at war with “terrorism”. We are at war with Islam.” - Sam Harris, 2004 https://washingtontimes.com/news/2004/dec/1/20041201-090801-2582r/… 2/

“The gravity of Jewish suffering over the ages, culminating in the Holocaust, makes it almost impossible to entertain any suggestion that Jews might have brought their troubles upon themselves. This is, however, in a rather narrow sense, the truth”- Harris, End Of Faith,2004

“The people who speak most sensibly about the threat that Islam poses to Europe are actually fascists.” - Sam Harris, 2006 https://samharris.org/the-end-of-liberalism/… 6/

Liberals “ignore the fact that Muslims intentionally murder noncombatants, while we & the Israelis…seek to avoid doing so. Muslims routinely use human shields, & this accounts for much of the collateral damage we & the Israelis cause” -Sam Harris,2006 https://samharris.org/the-end-of-liberalism… 7/

“If I could wave a magic wand and get rid of either rape or religion, I would not hesitate to get rid of religion.” - Sam Harris, 2006 https://thesunmagazine.org/issues/369/the-temple-of-reason… 8/

“I am one of the few people I know of who has argued in print that torture may be an ethical necessity in our war on terror.” - Sam Harris, ‘In Defense of Torture’, 2006 https://samharris.org/in-defense-of-torture/… 9/

“Given a choice between Noam Chomsky and Ben Carson, in terms of the totality of their understanding of what’s happening now in the world, I’d vote for Ben Carson every time… He understands that jihadists are the enemy.” - Sam Harris, 2015 https://samharris.org/podcasts/on-the-maintenance-of-civilization/… 10/

“We should profile Muslims, or anyone who looks like he or she could conceivably be Muslim, and we should be honest about it.” - Sam Harris, 2012 https://samharris.org/in-defense-of-profiling/… 11/

“I totally agree with you about Steve Bannon. He’s not Richard Spencer. I think he’s unfairly slimed as being that sort of right-wing xenophobe or racist.” - Sam Harris, 2018

“I think Black Lives Matter is a dangerous and divisive and retrograde movement, and it is a dishonest movement… I find very little to recommend in what I’ve seen from Black Lives Matter.” - Sam Harris, 2017 https://patheos.com/blogs/dispatches/2017/08/28/sam-harris-black-lives-matter-identity-politics/… 14/

“the Milo I’ve seen is very far from being a Neo-Nazi or someone whose attitudes are truly of the right. That’s probably not an accident, he’s flamboyantly gay and half Jewish, so I don’t know how right wing he could be in the end.” - Sam Harris, 2017 https://twitter.com/saeen90_/status/892722671078821888… 15/

“there is nothing like Islam…for generating this kind of intolerance and chaos. And if only a right wing demagogue will speak honestly about it, then we will elect right wing demagogues in the West more and more in response to it.” -Sam Harris, 2016

“Is it crazy to express, as Ted Cruz did, a preference for Christians over Muslims in this [refugee] process? Of course not…it is totally unhelpful to treat him…like a bigot on this point. This is a quite reasonable concern to voice”-Sam Harris, 2015 https://samharris.org/podcasts/on-the-maintenance-of-civilization… 12/

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Back to the topic; she clearly had an agenda because she did not allow him to answer the first question, and completely let the answer for the second go over her head (clearly scripted a response).

It’s and Independent regulator that does the fact checking body, had it been a Facebook fact checker, guess what it would be heavily favouring left wing publications.

OK that was lazy on my part, I skimread the following and got the wrong impression:

The former Daily Caller writer and editor Scott Greer has severed all ties with the conservative website after acknowledging that he had written under a pseudonym for the white-supremacist Radix Journal .

Greer, who stepped down as an editor at The Daily Caller in June to write a book, said he would drop his contributor status last week after The Atlantic confronted him with leaked chat logs that showed he had spent some of his time at the website also writing as “Michael McGregor” for Radix , the online publication founded by the “alt-right” leader Richard Spencer, who wants to turn America into a white ethno-state.