This massively malignant force exercises more control over the public discourse in the United States today than any totalitarian government ever dreamed of having. It must be shut down, or the freedom of speech will quite soon be a dead letter.
“Facebook still auto-generating Islamic State, al-Qaida pages,” by Desmond Butler and Barbara Ortutay, Associated Press, September 18, 2019:
WASHINGTON (AP) — In the face of criticism that Facebook is not doing enough to combat extremist messaging, the company likes to say that its automated systems remove the vast majority of prohibited content glorifying the Islamic State group and al-Qaida before it’s reported.
But a whistleblower’s complaint shows that Facebook itself has inadvertently provided the two extremist groups with a networking and recruitment tool by producing dozens of pages in their names.
The social networking company appears to have made little progress on the issue in the four months since The Associated Press detailed how pages that Facebook auto-generates for businesses are aiding Middle East extremists and white supremacists in the United States.
On Wednesday, U.S. senators on the Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation questioned representatives from social media companies, including Monika Bickert, who heads Facebook’s efforts to stem extremist messaging. Bickert did not address Facebook’s auto-generation during the hearing, but faced some skepticism that the company’s efforts were effectively countering extremists.
The new details come from an update of a complaint to the Securities and Exchange Commission that the National Whistleblower Center plans to file this week. The filing obtained by the AP identifies almost 200 auto-generated pages — some for businesses, others for schools or other categories — that directly reference the Islamic State group and dozens more representing al-Qaida and other known groups. One page listed as a “political ideology” is titled “I love Islamic state.” It features an IS logo inside the outlines of Facebook’s famous thumbs-up icon.
In response to a request for comment, a Facebook spokesperson told the AP: “Our priority is detecting and removing content posted by people that violates our policy against dangerous individuals and organizations to stay ahead of bad actors. Auto-generated pages are not like normal Facebook pages as people can’t comment or post on them and we remove any that violate our policies. While we cannot catch every one, we remain vigilant in this effort.”…
mortimer says
Facebook has turned a friendship-oriented service into a rapacious, invasive and controlling stranglehold on people’s private lives examining and reporting and censoring their thoughts and allowing others to punish ‘WRONGTHINK’ according to the latest, fashions or party doctrines of Globalist Leftism.
Who is FACEBOOK to tell people what they may think or say? Facebook has appointed itself as a New Vatican with self-declared powers of INFALLIBILITY.
The hubris of FACEBOOK’s executives will be punished by the gods themselves if not by the people who are the victims of Facebook.
Facebook should be broken up by appealing in court and in congress to the anti-trust laws on the books.
mortimer says
Note: some people believe that GOOGLE alia ALPHABET is much more evil than Facebook.
Google’s original motto was ‘DON’T BE EVIL’. But they wanted to evil, so they dumped that one.
And look at the hubris implied by the company name ALPHABET … they want to control all speech and all language from the smallest element up.
They will stop only if the people and their political representatives rise up in a revolution and stop them.
Infidel says
Just move to Gab, everyone, and stop depending on your phone/tablet to do all your social media. I do all of mine on my FreeBSD laptop, where none of these ‘tech’ giants – Google, Microsoft, Facebook, Twitter, Apple – have any control on what I do and where
WalterSieruk says
Yes the Facebook chefs refused to allow posting against violent and murderous jihad attacks .No matter who well researched the posting are . For example, just today, 9/22/10, I just finished ban a thirty day ban for posting two essays against jihad suicide /homicide bombings.
Here are the two essays the Facebook Banned me for.
“An important question is “Why are the jihadist bombers, so very, delusional that they actually want to become human bombs? ” Some of the reasons are that such violent and deadly people are the outcome of the extreme brainwashing that is done in Islamic mind programming centers which are more widely known as mosques and madrasas, by the Muslim clerics, such as the imams and in some countries as Afghanistan and Iran also the mullahs. In those Islamic mind programming centers youth are thoroughly indoctrinated into believing in the Islamic doctrine from the Koran. as found in 44;54. 55:56. 78:31.., of a sexual/lust filled paradise with many virgins, houris, in it for the Muslim male who dies fighting for the cause of Islam in the jihad. First and foremost, those who come out of those places of extreme brainwash are so very warped, sick and deluded that they actually view such murderous bombing attacks as “martyrdom operations”
Likewise, they are so very damaged that they have literally become dangerous to self and others. In addition, the Bible does warn about false teachers who ingrain a belief in a doctrine of a story of a /lustful/lust-filled place with much sex in it. For the Bible warns about false teachers, the Muslim clerics do fit this description, in Second Peter 2:18. Which reads “For they speak great swelling words of vanity, they allure through the lusts of the flesh…” Furthermore, many a times a jihad –minded Muslim in his death recording talks about “the wedding with the virgins” that he will have after he becomes a “martyr.” Such a belief Jesus would denounce as being based on false doctrine and false teaching. For Jesus taught “Ye do err, not knowing the scripture, nor the power of God. For in the resurrection they neither marry, nor are given in marriage, but are as the angles in heaven.” Mathew 22:29, 30. In contrast to the delusional Islamic pipe-dream of the jihadist in the Koranic story/doctrine of a place with virgins, Christians have the reality of Second Peter 1:16. Which reads “For we have not followed cunningly devised fables, when we made known unto you the power and coming of our Lord Jesus Christ…” [K.J.V.]”
The other essay I was put on a Facebook thirty day ban is the following.
“Muslims who are jihad suicide bombers may actually be better called Jihad suicide-homicide jihad bombers are as deluded as they was dangerous and murderous. For they must had actually believed by that by their murdering jihad bombing he was going to obtain for himself a paradise. The more fool them. For the Bible teaches that a murder “shall not inherit the kingdom of God. ” Galatians 5:21. In addition the falsehood of the story of the doctrine from the Koran, the Qu ‘ran, Sura 44:54. 55:56. 78:31, of a sexual /lust-filled paradise with many virgins, houris, in it for certain men Muslim men is a falsehood the is a story /doctrine is this also absurd. The Bible warns against listening to and believing in unproven, unfounded and far-fetched religious stories. No matter how enticing those religious story /doctrines may be . For the Bible warns against giving “heed to fables…” First Timothy 1:4.
Furthermore, the Bible had predicted the coming of such false religious teachers, as those imams, who teaches other a story/doctrine of a lust-filled /lust-fill place for specific men. For the Bible reads “”For the time will come when they will not endure sound doctrine; but will after their own lust shall heap to themselves teachers ,having itching ears; and they shall turn their ears for the truth ,and shall be turned unto fables.” Second Timothy 4:3,4. [K.J.V.]”
Sulait says
Facebook was extremely right to ban coz u a awarped racist criminal
Angemon says
Islam is not a race. That’s not how it works, you little s***.
Walter Sieruk says
To Sulait , reply to your charge against me that I’m a “warped racist criminal”
First ,,about being “warped.”I do understand logic and the difference between right and wrong ,
As ,for example , Living an honest .non-violent peaceful life is right By contrast violence ,murder s kidnapping rapes which he Muslim,jihadists of ISIS engage in in wrong, Very wrong .
Furthermore the suicide /homicide bombings and attacks are not only wrong but they are done by jihad minded Muslims who have a warped cognition , because of their religion, so those who engage in those murderous bombings are the people who are truly warped.So warped ,in fact , that they no longer understand the difference between right and wrong.
Second to reply to your charge against me that I’m a “racist.”
It needs to be made clear that Islam is not a “race” Islam is a religious ,political /Sharia law based system that has tyrannical mind control over the beliefs ,thoughts ,ideas and values of those people who are taken in and deceived by it from every race.
Third, to reply to your charge against me that I’m a “criminal.”
My opposition against Islam are done by non-violent legal ways . Such as Bible refutation of the false doctrines of Islam , as seen by my above posting. In addition .political action by joining and supporting actforamerica.org headed by Brigitte Grable.This is not “criminal” organization but a legal peaceful counter stealth jihad and non-stealth jihad .lobby group
Fourth, your reply and charges against me are a typical Islamic tactic .That is making personal and slanderous attacks because the Bible essays against Islam cant be refuted . So it’s the old ploy of “Since you can’t refute the message make personal character attacks against the messenger.
So Sulait, I must remember to pray for you
KWJ says
Walter: “The Bible essays against Islam can’t be refuted.”
To be precise, the Bible verses do not refute Islam. You are just applying Bible verses that could apply to any false prophets who were running around and even self-incriminating the Hebrew prophets and Jesus. A Bible believer will say Islam is wrong because my Bible says this and a Qur’an believer will say the same. It’s pointless.
To refute Islam, it has to collapse upon itself, it’s contradictions, how and when it was written, etc. Even the Qur’an self-incriminates Muhammadallah for it even tells you that the polytheist Meccans thought he was false, crazy, had a motive, used tales of the ancient peoples, and so on. It’s strange the Qur’an writers added that. Applying one’s Christian morals, values and prophecies does not refute Islam, you are just comparing and contrasting.
Regardless, you shouldn’t have been put in Facebook dungeon over those posts. They are your ideas and free expression. Facebook is like China. Facebook is acting on behalf of Muslims not intellectual freedom. Facebook is political. Facebook isn’t even needed, for example, mosques are recruiting centers, dissemination of recorded speeches, and all the pre-social media means.
gravenimage says
Note that Sulait considers the civilized Walter Sieruk to be “a awarped (sic) racist criminal” for opposing the horrors of Jihad terrorism. This is how Muslims think.
Never mind, as others have noted, that Islam is not a race, and Jihad terror threatens all non-Muslims.
asa walker says
FB~the censor of all things great and small. i had been on fb since it`s inception. i used it for many things including business and so on recently, being quite anti moslem and group think i posted a picture of mohammed on a pigs body. it took about 6 minutes for fb to delete my account and make me personna non grata we cannot now speak of the heads rolling down the streets and history is being rewritten to hide Islam`s rivers of blood. Islam has not changed any more than a rattlesnake has removed it`s fangs~~
Jennifer Downey says
I too just finished a 30 day ban for communicating Jesus’ love for them and offering to pray for anyone who needs healing prayer!!!
gravenimage says
Good grief, Jennifer–what madness.
No Muzzies Here says
The fact is that Facebook knows, and doesn’t care. It would rather promote a violent ideology than be accused of racism.
James Lincoln says
No Muzzies Here,
Just like Sweden. They would rather lose their country than be called racist.
smoris says
The sting should be weakening in the epithet, “racist” as everything and everyone and every thought is labeled as such. We should begin to ignore this word. It no longer means anything nor serves any purpose. The next time someone uses the term, “racist”, just tell them, “I no longer use or hear that term. Be more specific. Describe what you are talking about in other terms.” If we allow it our own language will be used as a hammer to shatter us and our culture. It is the same with forced “trans” and “non-binary” nonsense. A man is “he” or “him”, a woman is “she” or “her”. More than one of either or both is “they” or “them”. There is no such thing in English as “ze” or “zur”. It is time we stop letting language bullies take over the discussion.
gravenimage says
Genuine racism really is repugnant–which is why leftists use the term falsely to smear good people all the time.
Angemon says
And thus we see the conundrum companies like FB face: human being are fallible and biased, automation is not up to the task. While I stick to using Messenger, I understand the “why” behind auto-generated pages, as well as its failings. The best course of action for the hopelessly left-leaning FB, and the rest of Silicon Valley social media for that matter, would be to implement genuine freedom of speech and removing only what actually goes against the law. Of course, that would mean giving people they don’t like a platform, so it’s never going to happen. And thus, as publishers, they deserve whatever flak they get- and if that flak comes in the form of lawsuits, the better.
WalterSieruk says
Just today 9/23/19 around noon Facebook restored my posting ability after a thirty day ban for posting two the two essays above denouncing jihad suicide/homicide bombings.
Later the very same day around 4:00 Facebook banned me again for posting criticisms of Islam and further denouncing Muslim terrorism. Facebook claims I had violated their “community Standards ‘ by those postings.
I refuse to water-down or mince my words ,Thus i take those Facebook bans as a badge of honor.
gravenimage says
Facebook ruthlessly suppresses counterjihad material while auto-generating Islamic State and al-Qaida pages
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Complete insanity.
STJOHNOFGRAFTON says
Flakebook perfidy!
Lydia Church says
“While it is daytime, we must do the works of Him who sent Me. Night is coming, when no one can work.” John 9; 4
Robert Laity says
Amen.
Robert Laity says
I had been repeating statements from experts on Islam, the fact that it is NOT a religion, warnings that Americans had gotten from such persons as Thomas Jefferson, John Quincy Adams and even Winston Churchill. The reason that Jefferson owned a q’uran was to learn about Islam which was and still is our enemy. I spoke about Islam and Sharia Law being inextricably linked. Omar has asked that Twitter suspend Trump’s account because he criticized her. Obama used to say that “America is a Muslim nation”. Did you know that the U.S. Supreme court ruled in 1803 that “a law that is repugnant to the constitution is void”? Sharia Law IS such “a law that is repugnant to the Constitution”. Islam/sharia law is unconstitutional and “void”. For these types of factual statements my facebook account was suspended for a MONTH!
gravenimage says
Robert, Thomas Jefferson, John Quincy Adams, and Winston Churchill all acknowledged that Islam is a religion. It is just an *evil* religion.
Robert Laity says
THIS site is censoring comments about Islam.
marc says
just a delay in manual moderation
gravenimage says
You were not censored, Robert.
LB says
I’ll never understand the appeal of social networks like Facebook. Who in their right mind would WILLINGLY DOX THEMSELVES ON THE INTERNET??? Absolute insanity! Facebook is every spy agency’s wet dream. No wonder Mark Zoidberg sold all user data to the highest bidder, the offer was too insanely lucrative to refuse.
Twitter is the same. If you think DM’s are private, think again. Every single direct message goes through Twitter staff. Project Veritas did an expose on this a while back. Basically, there’s so much nudes–mainly of minors–going through DM’s that staff members were exchanging and compiling them via Twitter’s inner mailing system, and some were even selling them online. Demonic stuff.
Kerry Wade says
I’ve never used Facebook and never will. It’s a social organic evil. I say to many people “join the revolution, delete Facebook “.
paulap says
I would like to have the privilege of being banned from FB! Kudos to you all,
Panu bun says
rebeling God comes back again . after it had done thousand years ago .everytime it happened God punished Israel by losing her country , it is a shot statment in Bible , but it is is acxactky the same as those of present
Ben Cundiff says
Facebook needs to be treated as a public utility.
gravenimage says
Having the government seizing private companies might be even worse.