The Council on Foreign Relations.
And they have to sign a NDA.
"The welfare of humanity has always been the alibi of tyrants."
Christine Anderson MEP
I have found comfort in the thought that life is scary, but I must accept the adventure and the fact that it is beyond my control and wait to see what happens. Have faith and fear not.
Yep. And we've survived the end of the world a few hundred times too.
"I'm sooo confused..."
Chairman Jordan:
I appreciate the Committee’s interest in content moderation on online platforms. As you are aware, Meta has produced thousands of documents as part of your investigation and made a dozen employees available for transcribed interviews. Further to our cooperation with your investigation, l welcome the opportunity to share what I’ve taken away from this process.
There’s a lot of talk right now around how the U.S. government interacts with companies like Meta, and I want to be clear about our position. Our platforms are for everyone — we’re about promoting speech and helping people connect in a safe and secure way.
As part of this, we regularly hear from governments around the world and others with various concerns around public discourse and public safety.
In 2021, senior officials from the Biden Administration, including the White House, repeatedly pressured our teams for months to censor certain COVID-19 content, including humor and satire, and expressed a lot of frustration with our teams when we didn’t agree.
Ultimately, it was our decision whether or not to take content down, and we own our decisions, including COVID-19-related changes we made to our enforcement in the wake of this pressure.
I believe the government pressure was wrong, and I regret that we were not more outspoken about it. I also think we made some choices that, with the benefit of hindsight and new information, we wouldn’t make today.
Like I said to our teams at the time, I feel strongly that we should not compromise our content standards due to pressure from any Administration in either direction – and we’re ready to push back if something like this happens again.
In a separate situation, the FBI warned us about a potential Russian disinformation operation about the Biden family and Burisma in the lead up to the 2020 election.
That fall, when we saw a New York Post story reporting on corruption allegations involving then-Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden’s family, we sent that story to fact-checkers for review and temporarily demoted it while waiting for a reply.
It’s since been made clear that the reporting was not Russian disinformation, and in retrospect, we shouldn’t have demoted the story. We’ve changed our policies and processes to make sure this doesn’t happen again — for instance, we no longer temporarily demote things in the U.S. while waiting for fact-checkers.
Apart from content moderation, I want to address the contributions I made during the last presidential cycle to support electoral infrastructure. The idea here was to make sure local election jurisdictions across the country had the resources they needed to help people vote safely during a global pandemic. I made these contributions through the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative.
They were designed to be non-partisan –spread across urban, rural, and suburban communities.
Still, despite the analyses I’ve seen showing otherwise, I know that some people believe this work benefited one party over the other. My goal is to be neutral and not play a role one way or another – or to even appear to be playing a role. So I don’t plan on making a similar contribution this cycle.
Now if we can just get him to say that the Federal Reserve is not federal and there is nothing in reserve.
Should we all (ALL) go and point this out to our local sheriff?
Lined up out the door...
"I'd like to report some malfeasance please..."
Should we all (ALL) go and point this out to our local sheriff?
Lined up out the door...
"I'd like to report some malfeasance please..."
Remember, things that we see with our own eyes are not "fringe."
"When the guy or gal in the trench next to you is shooting in the right direction, let them keep shooting." Dan Bongino
"When the guy (gal) in the trench next to you is shooting in the right direction, let them keep shooting." Dan Bongino
Unless we win a super majority.
Now if we can just get him to say that the Federal Reserve is not federal and there is nothing in reserve.
"The Patriots Are In Control."
"200" They really like doing that big number thing...
Weird timing... I just had this exact problem.
"Unity" = Torches & Pitchforks.
Oregon and California also in similar recent news.
Yeah, aaannndddddd...