FACEBOOK: SOCIAL MEDIA'S MASKED ANARCHISTS WHO DON'T BELIEVE IN THE FIRST AMENDMENT, OR ME!

By Jonathan E.P. Moore, and Friends of America!

FACEBOOK: SOCIAL MEDIA'S MASKED ANARCHISTS WHO DON'T BELIEVE IN THE FIRST AMENDMENT, OR ME! 

For months now I’ve been ‘error free’ posting my articles and research on Facebook, and because of that ‘permitted’ to post my thoughts and findings on Obama's political correctness platform, and the division it caused in America! 

I woke up around 5am this morning on Trump’s first 100-day evaluation only to find that I couldn't share my views with other friends and political pages that I have been a member of for a very long time. I’m told that it’s because of the speed in which I post to other pages, and now I can’t use that function of sharing anymore. I tried to go directly to a page that I am a member of to post directly and not by ‘sharing,’ and the same message popped up. I next went to Facebook’s notification page that gives you the reasons why, like in the past, and there’s nothing there outlining the reason, the time I have to spend on the ‘penalty box’ bench, or the list of the required amount of time between posts, the number of posts allowed within a time frame, or the speed limit sign that’s nonexistent anywhere in the Facebook’s vague criteria’s for posting on Facebook. My postings have nothing to do with commerce and advertising, or making a buck, but exercising my America’s Constitutionally protected rite granted by our Constitutional first Amendment, ‘Freedom of Speech’

After watching what’s been going within America’s colleges and universities, and the fight allowing conservative views in making the case against illegal immigration silenced, is in part, the reason I was blocked. Facebook defended Hillary’s comments about the first and second Amendments having room for regulations should make you wonder what she would have done to the constitution if she had won. Facebook leader Mark Zuckerberg has always agreed with regulating freedom of speech, and will continue to short circuit and stifle anything that has to do with making America great again, conservative views on America’s domestic and foreign policies, and outsider non-politician President Trump’s pro-constitutional, anti-globalist mandate that were given the stamp of approval by the ‘Will’ of the American people in the last election! 

I thought that the following note to Facebook's progressive editorial department stifler’s was the right way to:

“I've been posting to these groups, that I'm a member of, for a very long time, and believe that an error was made in your determination of my status. I slowed up my posting and spread it out over 3 times in a day to 35 at a time every couple of hours, and there hasn’t been a problem in  the last 8 months, why now?......is this the new silencing agenda of conservative values like on America's colleges and universities, or just an honest attempt to curtail social medias progressive agenda in silencing speech...I've never received a Facebook guideline or book of rules about the number of posts I can post, so it must be just subjective, based on content, and not etched in stone. I guess then it has to be solely based on what ‘Facebook’ believes to be fake news, and subject to only Facebook’s opinion, and not fact!  ..... I'm a numbers guy, so what's the right or wrong number of posts, the speed of which I post, the time frame in which I 'CAN' post, and I'll conform! For Facebook to ignore and disrespect the constitutional right of the first Amendment, and subjective and hidden from view by Facebook only draws suspicion from not only myself but others, SO WHAT ARE THE RULES OF POSTING BY THE NUMBERS?.......and you say ????????”

I think I already know the response already, and as long as they’re not that ‘specific’ but vague, and remain in that noncommittal rule of law gap of regulations and protecting the first Amendment, can use like Obama did when he bypassed the Constitution to rewrite the immigration laws through intent and interpretation, then Facebook will be able to thrive under the guise of following the rule of law, and the Constitution!

FACEBOOK IS TURNING TO FACT-CHECKERS TO FIGHT FAKE NEWS!  12/15/2016

The company is giving content from fact-checking organizations unprecedented visibility in the News Feed.

Facebook today announced several initiatives to help reduce the spread of fake news, and a major element involves giving fact-checking organizations unprecedented prominence in the News Feed.

The largest social network in the world is partnering with organizations that have signed on to the International Fact-Checking Network (ICFN) fact-checkers’ code of principles to enable them to verify selected links being shared on Facebook and have those fact-checks attached to the original link. This is the first-time Facebook has given third parties special placement in the News Feed, which is the biggest single referrer of traffic to news websites in the United States and a huge traffic driver in other parts of the world. This move comes after Facebook faced intense scrutiny for the spread of fake news and misinformation on its platform during the election.

“Symbolically, this is huge,” Alexios Mantzarlis, director of the ICFN, told BuzzFeed News when asked about the significance of this partnership for fact-checkers.

He also cautioned that “we’re going to have to wait and see how the solutions announced by Facebook work in practice and how they are scaled up worldwide to determine what significance this has for fact-checking and the battle against fake news.”

Adam Mosseri, the VP of product management for News Feed, told BuzzFeed News Facebook is not paying the checking organizations for their participation, but said their sites could benefit from the additional traffic that this new level of exposure could bring.

He also said this and the other new initiatives — which involve a tweak to the News Feed ranking algorithm, easier ways for users to report false content, and new ways to prevent scammers from making money from completely fake news — come in response to concerns about the spread of misinformation on Facebook.

Facebook is initially focused on attacking “the worst of the worst” of fake news, according to Mosseri. He defined that as “clear hoaxes that are intentionally false and usually spread by spammers for financial gain.”

“Fake news is something we have were looking at before the last month or two, but I would say that the urgency around fake news has definitely increased given the feedback we received from the community,” Mosseri told BuzzFeed News.

How It Works

Here’s how the partnership works and how it will change how some links look in your News Feed: Participating partners will have access to a special online queue that will show links Facebook determined may be suitable for a fact-check. Links can end up in the queue because users have reported them as false, the viral nature of the link warrants a closer look, the source of the link is “masquerading as a news site,” or, for example, a lot of comments say the story is false or misleading. One or multiple partners can fact-check a link.

If checkers rate the content of the link as false, the resulting fact-check(s) will be attached to the link in News Feed, thereby alerting users to potential factual issues. So-called disputed links will also have their reach adversely affected in News Feed, per Mosseri.

This is what a disputed piece of content will look like in News Feed:

“[The fact-checkers] can dispute an article and link to their explanation and then provide context on Facebook so people and the community can decide for themselves whether they want to trust an article or share it,” Mosseri said.

The queue of checkable links is already operational and at least some participating partners have begun submitting their articles to be attached to disputed content.

Concerns Over Bias

Conservatives in the United States have over the years criticized fact-checking organizations for having a liberal bias. The owner of a large hyper partisan conservative Facebook page and website recently told BuzzFeed News he thinks Facebook as an organization also has a liberal bias.

Mosseri emphasized that this initial partnership is focused on purely fake news, and not on checking claims from politicians or wading into partisan disputes.

“Fake news means a lot of different things to a lot of different people, but we are specifically focused on the worst of the worst — clear intentional hoaxes,” he said.

Aaron Sharockman, the executive director of PolitiFact, told BuzzFeed News that his and other checking sites often face accusations of bias and said they focus on making their work as transparent as possible so readers can make up their own minds.

“I think that at some level you are never going to be able to satisfy certain critics, particularly very partisan ones,” he said. “At PolitiFact we’ve been doing this nine years and have published 13,000 fact-checks and we have heard criticism of perceived bias from the left and from the right.”

He said he expected Facebook to take heat for aligning with fact-checkers, but credited the company with taking steps to address the spread of fake news.

“They’re sticking their neck out a little bit and I think they’re gonna have to stick it out a little bit more because there are so many falsehoods flowing through Facebook feeds that Facebook is going to be very busy attacking these issues,” he said.

Meanwhile, Mantzarlis expects the partnership will result in a huge increase of applications to sign on to the IFCN’s code.

“I imagine that inundated may be an understatement,” he said. “But if this decision by Facebook leads to a surge in genuine fact-checking projects, so much the better.”

In preparation for that deluge, and because of the new prominence checking organizations will receive in Facebook, the IFCN is reworking its vetting process.

“We’re now adapting the process to set up a vetting process and ensure compliance,” he said. “Aspiring signatories must go through that process. Existing signatories will also be vetted and if they don’t meet the criteria, will be delisted.”

He also emphasized that signing onto the IFCN code is just the minimum requirement to be included in the Facebook checking project.

“First, it is important to note that Facebook decides which fact-checkers to include; the IFCN code is just the ‘minimum condition,’” he said in an email.

In response to a follow-up question about how organizations will be approved for the third-party fact-checking program, a Facebook spokesperson said participants “must be signatories” of the IFCN code. As of this writing, six US-based organizations have signed on: The Associated Press, PolitiFact, FactCheck.org, Snopes, the Washington Post, and ABC News. The last was only added as a signatory two days ago, and AP joined the day of the announcement.

Mantzarlis said ABC News applied early last week. Its website lists two stories for its Fact or Fake feature. AP has been publishing fact-checks for several years. ~~By Craig Silverman, BuzzFeed News Media Editor, a Friend of America!

I don’t know if they will even let this to be posted on my profile page, but if it isn’t please share to the pro- America pages that you enjoy and members of, and find my daily M-F post of ‘While You Were Dozing’ at:

www.whileyouweredozing.blogspot.com 

From my blog, you can post to Facebook directly.

I always, when Facebook closed me down, was given a date when I could continue, but this time there was nothing to indicate when the block will be lifted! I will continue to write and post what I believe and research on my FB profile page, but if you would help me share to other mutual friends and pages, that would be greatly appreciated ….

THANKS!

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