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(35,454 posts)
Thu Nov 15, 2018, 03:25 PM Nov 2018

Is What FaceBook Did To Soros A Hate Crime?

"the top executive (Sandberg) was personally behind a secret effort to smear Soros and his foundations—in some cases by pushing anti-Semitic conspiracy theories used by right-wingers—as a way to deflect from a public relations crisis and ongoing criticisms of the social media giant's business model"

https://www.democraticunderground.com/100211433997

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Me.

(35,454 posts)
2. THey Have A Lot To Answer To
Thu Nov 15, 2018, 03:42 PM
Nov 2018

I hope, at the very least, Soros takes some legal action on their egregious behavior.

SWBTATTReg

(22,112 posts)
4. I do too. Some of these platforms have to clean themselves up quite a bit, and I know that ...
Thu Nov 15, 2018, 03:49 PM
Nov 2018

supposedly, FB, twitter, etc. have all done some clean up but there's a lot more to do, and in view of censorship, must be careful in doing so. However, hate speech is hate speech and so this criteria makes it easier for these platforms to clean up this garbage. However, slander, etc. I think needs to go further, in that if it was truly harmful, and not true, nail them to the wall (or their pocketbook).

Me.

(35,454 posts)
7. According To This New Report
Thu Nov 15, 2018, 03:53 PM
Nov 2018

rather than do the actual cleaning up they hired a team to do propaganda and tricks. They knew there was a problem way before they said they knew but were worried about losing money and didn't want the ca-ching affected. THat entire, antisemitic episode that they created, was an attempt at distraction.

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