At today's Senate Commerce Committee hearing, Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) grilled a Facebook whistleblower about whether the platform engages in political censorship.
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I DID THIS AND ILL NEVER GO BACK
Thank you 🙏
People are capable of creating a spectacular horrible show
@Taylor White Isn’t Youtube a social media platform???🙄🙄 I’m just asking🙄🙄
@Derty Grows-it YOU KNOW HE WENT ON VACATION DUIRNG A CRISIS IN HIS STATE RIGHT? CUE THE “DEMOCRATES DO IT TOO” COMMENTS.
yeah I definitely don’t want the government involved other than limiting fb censorship … you shouldn’t let your kids on fb period.
@seph13x it was created for College Students by College Students 21 is a bit of stretch. I plan on keeping my kid off of SM as long as possible. But when he’s 18 he can do what he pleases.
@Wazzk found the child…
@IronskullGM they stated their opinion and you didn’t state anything that invalidated what they said, lol
@Ashley LuLu i agree kids shouldn’t be on social media untill there 18
Facebook should be held accountable, they lied for a long time
Easily done: (1) pass legal injunction requiring that Facebook (and – while we’re at it – *all* Big Tech) make *all* of their code and empirical proprietary data open source and freely available, (2) to be placed under CopyLeft giving us *all* de facto ownership and control over the platforms’ infrastructure and (3) get *all* government regulation off of Cyberspace of either them or whatever off-shoots of them that *we all* decide to create from them. Cyberspace is a world medium, not part of the US or any other nation-state; and it is the World Library, not some kind of commerce bazaar. Those were the standards *we* – the pioneers of Cyberspace – set up in the 1970’s and 1980’s when *we* founded this medium, and what we abided by before Al Gore and company interjected himself with his “information superhighway” nonsense in the 1990’s, and it’s time for us to take Cyberspace back.
Do you have a Facebook account?
facebook is not necessary for society.
social media of ALL types only damage society and it’s peoples.
(and the way they spun the ‘arab spring’ to their benefit was atrocious)
the ads are fucked regardless of who they are shown to… psychosocial manipulation
How about all corporations should be held accountable, or just destroy the social media
wouldnt it be amazing if kids werent allowed on social media…. remove kids from social media which would entice them to find friendships outside of the internet and increase social skills
@Richard Manginelli yea smokin dope and bangin
@Patti Christmas yep… no masks either!
/s
This is an obvious solution. Kids can`t drink, or drive a car until a certain age, or vote. Kids can`t open a bank account, or order non-stick cookware from QVC, or get a credit card. Kids can`t vape or buy tobacco. Or get married. And a whole bunch of other stuff. Why? Because we recognize their inability to handle these things. So if social media truly is this dangerous to our children, shouldn`t we just get them the hell outta there?
AAAAaaaand congratulations! You now see things the way *China* does! xD
Dumped Fakebook many months ago, saw this coming. As an adult, my gripe with them was controlling my speech as an Independent speaking against Democrat policies, ideas and procedures. I would get messages from their “Fake Checkers” that I had said something on their sponsored social media sites not deemed appropriate by Fakebook standards and end up in Fakebook jail for a time. After 3 incidents of this, all of a sudden and after 11 years of FB usage within a few weeks, I dumped them never to return and warned all my friends.
@S. Alvarez Same here. I stopped using it & deleted the app same year.
@Owls0720 Me Yes they were very dishonest about their fact checking.
@M Grizz hero
@Lotus43 True of most liberals. They are permitted to say whatever they want, including attacking anyone who disagrees with them, even if the disagreement is responsible and polite. After being attacked in the most egregious ways on several occasions and gang-stalked in a very obvious manner by liberal lunatics of the most vicious sort on FB I could see how heavily one-sided it had become. No thanks – I don’t go to sword fights without a sword, one hand tied behind my back and a blindfold applied to boot.
I also saw this coming and deleted Facebook forever nothing but a bunch of socialists morons
The big reason I got off FB and twitter years ago – they are both the work of the devil
Amen Amen Amen Amen!
“whistleblower” Something fishy about this whole thing.
@Teresa Davis yep
Are government made Facebook only reason all this came out was because they are mad dog pissed they can’t vaccinate everyone
@LinguisticAnarchy! That is my suspicion…
@John P What whistle-blower ever gains that much attention in such a short amount of time with little to no push back from politicians or media? Also look at her contacts and PR firm.
@Thevaccineis Suicidekoolaid To take broader control of the internet likely.
Let’s not forget their support of the taliban, coyotes and the cartels running ads on their platforms
@Puppet Government (—— is a child looking for attention.
@OFF-Grid HillBilly Style
Billy left the car running in the garage again. He’s posting nonsense.
@Delinda House , by following closely, you mean reading nonsense of unconfirmed stories of a subject that fits your narrative fantasy.
You need to unplug from social media and experience real life. Put your energy in helping the community around you.
@JAMES C nah dude that’s.fact. I see all your comments you must have got butt hurt 😅😅😅 so soft. So tender 😋😅
@Puppet Government you probably eat Doritos and drink Moutain dew all day on the couch 😂
This Congress is in cahoots with Facebook.
Cruz didn’t grill her on censorship. He asked her. Don’t ramp up the headlines
Exactly! Liars and agenda pushers.
they try to use words they think will grab our attention and its forbes so they dont mind lying or stretching the truth.
I agree 👍
@tick421 I cannot talk the exaggerated titles to these clips. Just for click baits
@MEDIA THING The most common one
“GAME OVER”
I haven’t used Facebook in over two years. I’m 28. I recognized the damage potential social media has and so I got off of it.
The only social media I use that has political censorship and a far left agenda is youtube.
i deleted FB, IG, Twitter & Snapchat back in 2015 and haven’t been back. now look at the dumpster fires they have become.
If your using Instagram your using Facebook
Better than Deleting a facebook account is to put it into Vacation Mode. This effectively makes it invisible to the world, while making it impossible for anyone to start an account using your name.
@Thomas Bell I don’t use any social media though. No twitter, no instagram, nothing.
He’s not grilling her Forbes, she is pretty cooperative.
…..she has a plan…the real question is why are we playing along with her?
I think she’s a liar. 🤷
Censorship is BS. Once censorship is allowed, it will allow for THEIR opinions to be the ONLY media, therefore, blinding the PEOPLE to what is really going on. 🤷
She wants the position. Like FAUCU and FBI she will then work against AMerican Citizens.
Yes, the definition of “grilling” is to ask questions of someone who is vastly more knowledgeable on the subject than the questioner.
There should be no oversight from Congress, but rather the ability for the public to hold the company accountable.
@Elton …see Mark Zuck and others.
You srsly that dmb?
@Todd Lets hold over site, and get rid of section 230 because they are causing deaths. If the world were to get an enema, two places to stick it, Zuckerborg, and George Soros. Others to come later. Just my opinion.
@Elton – lol didn’t you just do that Einstein?! Muhahahah – The idiocy
Exactly! Don’t let these big tech companies use the gov’t to blame for their mistakes-hold them accountable for their own (in)action.
We have laws on the books about big monopolies. They should just enforce them.
Hey Forbes where was the grilling? I saw him asking simple questions and her answering them. Your rhetorical title is misleading like usual
She is NOT a whistleblower merely an FB operative with an Obama official advising her. See BCP report
Interesting, she was actually answering question somewhat. Even adding to it in a decent way. Who is BCP?
How can you “grill” a whistleblower lol
Good point. Forbes knows shes a plant. Dead give away.
That’s a whistleblower as much as all those agents at the rally for 6 stunt.
I don’t like this – as much as I admire this young woman’s courage for coming forward, the solution to this apparent lack of transparency just can’t be and shouldn’t be more government oversight.
Instead we should have facebook have more oversight and have more control of the world that our own government
it’s not more it’s just holding them to the same standards as any other business in America at the moment they regulate themselves and obviously not well at all.
She really doesn’t need makeup to play The Predator in the next movie just add the teeth
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