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Right-Wing AfD Suggests Parts of Germany are Now Under an Islamic "Caliphate"
The German right-wing AfD party posted a graphic which suggested that parts of the country are now under the control of an Islamic “caliphate”.
Following the conclusion of the European elections, one of Alternative for Germany’s branches in Berlin posted an image on Facebook indicating that the western and southern states, where AfD received less support, had been taken over by Islamists.
The...
Users threaten to quit WhatsApp over Zuckerberg's latest money-making ad plan
Mark Zuckerberg talks a big game when it comes to giving users what they want and serving the ‘community’ — but when push comes to shove, the Facebook CEO always follows the dollar signs in his eyes over user satisfaction.
When Facebook bought WhatsApp for a cool $19 billion in 2014, Zuckerberg was acquiring a company that had famously promised never to introduce advertising or gather massive...
Inquisition 2.0? Facebook Banning Right-Wingers for Political Heresy
Facebook has recently banned a number of prominent right-wing figures as “dangerous individuals”, with the recent restrictions applying on Instagram as well. Speaking to Sputnik, a cyber security analyst and former US congressional candidate shed light on what appears to be political bias on the part of the Silicon Valley giants.
On 3 May, US President Donald Trump directed criticism at...
Facebook tracks ex-employees it considers "Threats"
Facebook is tracking users and ex-employees it considers to represent “threats” to its staff via a “BOLO” list. The practice has been called “very Big Brother-esque” – even for the social media giant.
Facebook “mines” its network for threatening comments, according to CNBC, which spoke to more than 12 former employees about how the company deals with perceived threats. Then,...
Facebook is finished, Mark Zuckerberg is about to be subpoenaed soon - privacy expert
Even for a company as serially scandalous as Facebook, it’s been a bad week for the social network. Separate investigations revealed that Facebook gave more than 150 firms access to people’s private messages, while also making it impossible for users to avoid location-based ads.
After months of fallout from the Cambridge Analytica scandal, US prosecutors also finally got around to filing a lawsuit...
Mark Zuckerberg loses $17 billion, Facebook loses $119 billion
Facebook chairman and CEO Mark Zuckerberg is having a very bad day. On Thursday, he lost $17 billion of his fortune, Facebook shares dipped almost 20 percent, and now, some shareholders want his influence on the company reduced.
The money the Facebook CEO lost is only one-fifth of his net worth, which has fallen to $70 billion. Zuckerberg has also slid to sixth place from third on the Bloomberg Billionaires...
Facebook Kills "God Emperor Trump" Account Hours Ahead of Censorship Hearing
Facebook terminated a highly popular pro-Trump fan page without explanation just hours before a Congressional hearing on censorship by social media giants. You wanna know what this signals? It signals that Zuckerberg doesn’t give a shit about the US Congress, Trump or you the average Trump supporter. Its over folks, we WON, yet we LOST! The corporations are too powerful, the liberals and too...
Trump Jr. Slams Zuckerberg Over Instagram Bias
Donald Trump Jr. is furious with Instagram because he says the social media platform issued a warning to users searching his name.
After noticing a massive loss of followers in the past few weeks, President Trump’s oldest son claimed to have discovered a warning message issued to Instagram users and expressed his outrage in a post to the platform Friday night.
“REALLY?!?! Are you fricken kidding...
Facebook ‘quality news’ prioritization may result in ‘bias & won’t change quality’
Although AI, machine-generated content removal in the social media news-ranking system will become a reality, a lot of decisions still will be made by humans with their biases and interests, internet law expert Yair Cohen told RT.
Facebook is now planning to change the way it presents news to the users by introducing a ranking system aimed at defining what it deems “quality news.”
“We are, for...
Facebook bans all ads for cryptocurrencies, ICOs and binary options
Facebook Inc. on Tuesday said it is banning ads promoting bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies, as well as those about initial coin offerings (ICOs) and binary options.
The social networking giant said in a blog that it is making the move because these are “financial products and services frequently associated with misleading or deceptive promotional practices.”
“We want people to continue...
Facebook Police Continue Attacks on Influential Conservative News Sites
After last year’s Presidential election, then President Barack Obama met face to face with Mark Zuckerberg, the founder of Facebook. Although the minutes of their meeting are not publicly available, far-left publications shared that Obama warned Zuckerberg about ‘fake news’ –
Former president Barack Obama personally warned Facebook founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg in a post-2016 election meeting...
Facebook's Zuckerberg: Fight Against Nationalism "Struggle of our Time"
Facebook chief Mark Zuckerberg choked up while speaking about an illegal immigrant “DREAMer” during his Harvard commencement speech and declared that the fight against the forces of nationalism “is the struggle of our time.”
Zuckerberg acknowledged on Thursday that “there are people left behind by globalization across the world” and even conceded that “there are people in every country...
Facebook Headquarters Puts Up Massive Black Lives Matter Sign Following Dallas Shooting
Facebook placed a massive “Black Lives Matter” sign on its Menlo Park headquarters Friday just hours after five Dallas officers were gunned down by a member of a Black Power Political Organization.
The sign’s letters were made up of the names of different highly publicized and deceased black individuals including Trayvon Martin, Eric Garner and Michael Brown.
Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg has...
Facebook Bans Conservatives For Complaining About Censorship
Social media giant back to its old ways despite much heralded meeting with conservatives.
Just days after Facebook met with conservatives over concerns about the social media giant’s left-wing bias, conservative pages are still being banned.
According to conservative commentator Lauren Southern, Facebook has banned all the moderator accounts that ran the ‘Disdain For Plebs’ page, which had over...
Facebook's Zuckerberg to Meet with Anti-Trump "Conservatives" This Week
Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg is meeting with several conservatives this week to address the alleged suppression of conservative news stories on Facebook.
The list of attendees is a who’s who of Trump bashers: Glenn Beck, Dana Perino, S. E. Cupp, Arthur Brooks from American Enterprise Institute and Zac Moffatt, Mitt Romney’s former digital director.
This is how Drudge Report put it:
Glenn Beck...