So Much For Smart

The censorship of conservative posts on the Internet by Facebook, Twitter, YouTube and Apple, Inc. have the fingerprints of George Soros and his funded, “progressive” groups.  

A Soros funded 49 page paper on defeating and removing President Trump using major social-media platforms to eliminate “right wing propaganda and fake news” was presented to 100  donors in January 2017  by Media Matters founder David Brock at a retreat in Florida. It is is entitled,  "Democracy Matters: Strategic Plan For Action."

The paper outlines a four-year plan for Media Matters, American Bridge, Shareblue, Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington (CREW) to attack and destroy the Trump Administration and more...

The strategies include impeachment, Media Matters’ fighting “...government misinformation,” regaining Democrat control of the Senate in the 2018 midterm elections, filing lawsuits on the Trump Administration, monetizing political advocacy, using “digital attacks” to delegitimize Trump’s Presidency, elected Republicans and partnering with Facebook to quash “fake news.”

The document revealed Media Matters and far-left groups “...have access to raw data from Facebook, Twitter, and other social media sites” so they can “systemically monitor and analyze unfiltered data.”

“The earlier we can identify a fake news story, the more effectively can we quash it,” the paper claims. “With this new technology at our fingertips, researchers monitoring news in real time will be able to identify the origins of a lie with mathematical precision, creating an early warning system for fake news and disinformation.”  Of course "lies" are anything from Republicans or any Conservative.

Media Matters met with Facebook, which has two billion members worldwide, to discuss suppressing “fake news.”  Of course what is “fake” is a matter of judgment, even in science!  Facebook was given “a detailed map of the constellation of right-wing Facebook pages that had fake news according to Media Matters.

Brock’s memo reveals Media Matters gave Google “...the information necessary to identify 40 of the worst fake new sites” so they could be banned from Google’s advertising network again, in their opinion!

The Gateway Pundit revealed in 2016 Google carried out the plan on the Gateway Pundit blog,  Breitbart, the Drudge Report, Infowars, Zero Hedge and Conservative Treehouse.

Facebook, meanwhile changed its newsfeed algorithm, to combat “fake news,” causing a precipitous decline in traffic for many conservative sites. President Donald Trump was affected as his engagement on Facebook dropped 45 percent.  A study in June by Gateway Pundit found Facebook eliminated 93 percent of the traffic of top conservative news outlets.

In a study by Western Journal left-wing publishers saw a two percent increase in web traffic from Facebook following the algorithm changes, conservative sites had a loss of traffic of 14 percent.

While people like Jeff  Zuckerberg are thought to be geniuses it amazing, if not telling, they cannot see what is wrong with this concept.  What has made America the successful has been the open arguing of ideas.

President Trump's 2020 Campaign Manager, Brad Parscale, has charged the giants of Silicon Valley are stifling free speech, particularly conservative speech, manifesting the “inherent totalitarian impulse” of the left.

Facebook recently appeared to be "shadow banning" the non-profit education site talk show host Dennis Prager founded as "Prager University."  Prager's readers vanished under Zuckerberg's actions on  "hate speech" as Zuckerberg now claims.

After Facebook rejected an inspirational ad for a Republican Congressional candidate that included images of her parents’ persecution under the Khmer Rouge communist regime in Cambodia, Twitter followed a ban.  WND reported Facebook banned a pro-life video ad by a judicial candidate, with the same explanation. 

On August 8, 2018 WND reported, Facebook, YouTube and Apple banned commentator Alex Jones and his Infowars website within hours of each other.  In July WND reported moderate Muslims and counter-terrorist activists were increasingly being restricted by Silicon Valley Internet publishers allow terrorist content on social-media platforms, according to researchers.  Trump campaign chief Parscale said last week the banning of Jones “...will inevitably lead to the silencing of those with far less controversial opinions.” and “What we are seeing in Big Tech is the inherent totalitarian impulse of the Left come into full focus,”

Let us not forget while we are taught to think people like Mark Zuckerberg are very smart and we should listen to them, 90% of the faculty of the University of Heidelberg voted for Adolph Hitler in the election that brought him to power.  So much for "smart."

Adrian Vance