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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsProgressives need a larger and stronger social media presence.
Our online presence tends to primarily encounter like minded individuals. We need to be directly confronting the distortion of the right. Unlike us, they troll everywhere, disputing facts and reinforcing lies. Sadly, I think they've been pretty good at it.
jdanield
(16 posts)there are limits to what you can do on "foreign soil" The cult does not take criticism well and is so afraid of reality as to be scary delusional... i can't post my letter because of format limitations so you miss out on the colors and bold and all that - BUT - this is the extent i had to go to to get back on after being "locked out" by
f-bk
What follows is what i sent to Zuckberg and f-bk security when Gateway's Jim Hoft didn't like my posting of a google search of him as "the dumbest man on the internet". I now take my work over there more serious because Gateway Pundit is now A FRIGGIN WHITE HOUSE CORRESPONDENT! ??? What kind of world is this...
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THIS IS THE THIRD ATTEMPT to obtain an explanation for why I have been locked out of my account.
THIS IS ALSO: THE THIRD TIME, I HAVE BEEN LOCKED OUT.
The first time I never was told why or who complained.
The second time because it came right after my postings on his f-bk pg I
suspect it was Alex Jones for my postings about his incredible lies about the Pizza Gate bullshit. I was reinstated AFTER he was sued, charged and started scrubbing all mentions of his lies and deceptions from his f-bk page and website. Coincidence?
Now, after posting the attached copy of what is all readily available to everyone oinline to the Gateway Pundit site... I am locked out again ? Coincidence?
I have attached the last posting immediately before my lockout this guy (Jim Hoft) is a menace to society Not just because he is an idiot and uninformed but because he incites, inflames, misleads and misrepresents facts to the approx 590,000 people who go to his site. What is Facebook's role to be in the DUMBING DOWN of the populace? How do you justify this doofus (who, by the way has been accused by others of Fake news and somehow convinced your electrons otherwise)
At a minimum his site should be labeled:
Contains Unverified information and Opinions
NO I believe Facebook is running scared from the extreme right and doesn't know what to do.
I also am troubled that your supposed appeal process IS NOT WORKING AFTER OVER A MONTH OF IT BEING POINTED OUT.
Is Facebook picking sides - censoring content and limiting speech for an unannounced agenda.
What strikes me as most curious is that this comes as I am sharing information on the upcoming ACA repeal and protests -
WHY?
Oh, wait - I forgot. Companies advertise on GP = it's about the money. Isn't it. Fuck intellectual integrity let's go grab us some easy money for allowing lies to circulate unchallenged on f-bk. Yippeee...
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one hour later - my account is unceremoniously "unlocked". No apology.. No explanation.
My point here is f-bk makes the rules and you will be limited in your voice. I've been on GP since October, so most of the brain dead i have already been to war with and they no longer challenge me. For me: i have found posting of factual and SUPPORTED articles garner "likes" but many will immediately go to "libtard" / liberal / Obama-Clinton troll mode . Over the last week - i have been getting more "likes", so, i'm hopping some zombies are looking for reality after cult membership. we'll see
to be filed under - fwiw
Laurian
(2,593 posts)click on any of the "trending" topics anymore because they seem to be dominated by right wing posts and comments.
If I look at comments attached to a tweet made by a journalist or progressive I follow on Twitter, I very often see lots of nasty, right wing replies.
It's like there's an army of them out there who are being strategically deployed.
jdanield
(16 posts)TrekLuver
(2,573 posts)Oh and how could I forget my work on Twitter! I have yet to meet a Trump Troll that can shut me down.
justiceischeap
(14,040 posts)It doesn't help the progressive cause when as a Democrat I see so-called Progressives eating their "own" on social media.
Dems who didn't support Sanders are not the enemy--Cheeto McTinyPaws and the GOP is.
That said, some progressives I've seen on Twitter are done with the Democratic Party over Ben Carson's unanimous approval to HUD.