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Skeptical
You can just SEE the sweat pouring off Clegg's brow!
Remember Nick? Former UK Lib Dem leader Nick Clegg? Former DPM in 2010 after his party accepted a coalition deal with the Conservatives, who resigned after the 2015 general election, who became VP of Global Affairs for Facebook.
Well, he is earning his salary this week.
Still taking odds over whether Nick will be the Designated Goat who gets the axe when the questioning REALLY gets tough.
dagon
Facebook on Sunday dismissed as "ludicrous" suggestions it contributed to the U.S. Capitol riot on Jan 6, a charge the social media giant expects will be leveled in an upcoming whistleblower interview.
People already forgot about Cambridge Analytica?
Facebook is a tool, like a gun. Usually it just is for engaging eyeballs and selling ads.
Network TV was called toxic too.
FizzBit
wait what?
So it’s back to a riot now and not an attack or insurrection?
MSM protecting their own.
Bob Fosse
Wait, what? You think Facebook is MSM?
That explains a lot actually.
bo
So fine the Zuck a billion ,loose change for them , they most prob avoided that much in tax in the first month of the year .
Blacklabel
Facebook was the “gun” here.
so they have responsibility for what happened too. Same as liberals blame the gun when they don’t want to blame certain groups of people for a shooting
remember when Parler was blamed for Jan 5? Well this is Parler too, except people actually use and read this one.
What, don’t like “whistleblowers” anymore? Can’t even wait to hear what they have to say first?
Blacklabel
nice insertion of the word “all”. These liberal Democrat communicators are quite clever.
no one is claiming “all”. The tainted food didn’t make “all” who ate it sick, so it’s perfectly fine right?
bass4funk
Bingo! Be happy when that company is out of business.
Bob Fosse
Another one. Facebook is NOT msm. How can you be so wrong?
bass4funk
Well, a lot of these people should be released earlier than thought now that we know the majority of them were not awarded due process so that is going to impact the DOJ quite significantly. You can’t just round up, hold people without formerly charging them and denying them basic human and rights as American citizens, a lot of these guys are lawyering up when they get out. settlements are coming soon….
Bob Fosse
Those against the ‘liberal Democrat communicators’ seem to rather fancy themselves as experts on semiotics and discourse analysis. Sadly their stumbling block consistently appears to be actually reading more than a sentence or two.
SuperLib
That's exactly what Arpaio did in Arizona to Latinos and I believe your reaction was fist pumping. Same with Ron's new law in Florida.
Are you upset when Constitutional rights are upended when it impacts white people, and cheer when it impacts minorities?
Blacklabel
lots of inconvenient information here showing Facebook accepting ads and making money and pushing narratives. Now Facebook had nothing to do with any of it? yeah, sure.
https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/tech-news/qanon-groups-have-millions-members-facebook-documents-show-n1236317
Bob Fosse
It’s odd. For months and months some people here argued that the insurrection didn’t happen, was just friendly tourists.
Now apparently it was real, organized and fueled by Facebook and it’s time to blow the lid off the thing.
Be careful with that, all sounds a bit Sandy Hook, Alex Jones didn’t end well by pushing crazy conspiracies.
bass4funk
The department of justice can’t either and this is the reason why these people will not be held long. again, can’t wait until they get a lawyer and sue the crap out of these people. Cha-Ching!
What? Anyway…,
There were quite a few blacks and Latinos there as well, so yeah I do get upset when the Constitutional rights of Americans are impacted.
Blacklabel
well is either happened as you have claimed and Facebook was involved.
Or it didnt happen and that makes Facebook blameless. take your pick.
There is no scenario where it did happen and Facebook wasnt part of it.
Facebook own internal investigations show all the Facebook groups there were which were directly involved in what happened.
or, nothing really happened now, just in order to protect Facebook? a conundrum, indeed.
Bob Fosse
You are all over the place again. Aim for consistency
FizzBit
That is exactly what FB wants you to think. Well done
Bob Fosse
No. It is a fact. Your conspiracy is irrelevant to that.
But now apparently apples are oranges. Well done.
bass4funk
This is why so many people are thankfully leaving the platform, they see right through Zuckerberg and his pathetic minions.
Bob Fosse
Again, probably false. Growth has slowed but Facebook has more users now than ever before. Try again.
lincolnman
A lot of these insurrectionists are claiming they were duped by Trump and the far-right media cabal - "Foxitis".... Looking at the comments from Trump supporters here, it's evidently more contagious than COVID...
https://edition.cnn.com/2021/05/11/opinions/capitol-riot-foxitis-defense-rodgers/index.html
How soon they forget the chants, and their posts here on JT, of "Lock Her Up".....
MAGA-world;
Mon: These are proud patriots defending freedom....
Tues: These are nothing but FBI-trained Antifa and BLM scum....
Weds: Violence? What violence? These people were all law-abiding tourists...didn't you see how many brought their mothers?
Blacklabel
“An internal Facebook task force reportedly found that the company failed to take proper action against users using the platform to coordinate the Stop the Steal rally that turned into an insurrection at the Capitol on Jan. 6. “
bass4funk
Beg to differ
https://wersm.com/facebook-continues-to-lose-users-in-the-us-and-canada/
Amazing how you guys have nothing else to talk or cling on is the election. Well, when the Dems lose the House next year we’ll do the same.