I was never sure if Facebook was a good tool to publicize my writing, but now I am sure that it’s a good tool to spread hate propaganda. SO, ON THANKSGIVING DAY, I WILL CLOSE MY FACEBOOK PAGE AND CANCEL MY ACCOUNT WITH FACEBOOK.
An article in the New York Times last week detailed how Facebook contributed to the spread of anti-Semitism as a way to defend itself against critics. Earlier articles had made it clear that Facebook was knowledgeable about the Russian Facebook pages that meddled in our 2016 election. Clearly, Facebook is a business motivated by profit, and NOT, as its mission statement proclaims, “to give people the power to build community and bring the world closer together.”
I hope Facebook users will think twice about their continued use of this social media tool.
Excerpted from New York Times article “Delay, Deny and Deflect: How Facebook’s Leaders Fought Through Crisis” November 14, 2018 (click here to read the article)
(FACEBOOK) has overseen an aggressive lobbying campaign to combat Facebook’s critics, shift public anger toward rival companies and ward off damaging regulation. Facebook employed a Republican opposition-research firm to discredit activist protesters, in part by linking them to the liberal financier George Soros. It also tapped its business relationships, lobbying a Jewish civil rights group to cast some criticism of the company as anti-Semitic…Facebook also used Definers Public Affairs to take on bigger opponents, such as Mr. Soros, a longtime boogeyman to mainstream conservatives and the target of intense anti-Semitic smears on the far right. A research document circulated by Definers to reporters this summer, just a month after the House hearing, cast Mr. Soros as the unacknowledged force behind what appeared to be a broad anti-Facebook movement… (and), its content is frequently picked up by popular conservative outlets, including Breitbart.
