What could go wrong?
Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg said Tuesday that the company has already begun to implement a system that ranks news organizations based on trustworthiness, and promotes or suppresses its content based on that metric…
…Zuckerberg said the company will invest “billions” of dollars in a combination of artificial intelligence and tens of thousands of human moderators to keep both fake news and deliberate propaganda at bay, especially in elections.
So Facebook will determine the “trustworthy” score by having users, who are willing, to take a survey about how they feel about the sites and whether they should be trusted.
This should work well…sigh
But wait! It gets better:
Facebook has enlisted a team from law firm Covington and Burling to advise them on combating perceptions of bias against conservatives. One minor detail: Covington and Burling is the firm of Barack Obama’s left-wing former attorney general, Eric Holder.
According to Axios, the team will be led by former Senate Republican Whip Jon Kyl. Kyl was a vocal critic of Holder during his time in the Senate, and was rated highly by conservative organizations. After Kyl retired from the Senate, he joined Covington & Burling, where Holder had previously been a high-profile partner.
The former attorney general is still a partner at Covington & Burling, and was recently retained by the state of California for their expected legal showdowns with the Trump Administration. Holder has publicly flirted with the idea of running for president in 2020, telling reporters earlier this year that he would make a decision by the end of 2018.
So, to sum up: Facebook, a California-based company, has enlisted the same firm that is providing legal advice to their state against the Trump administration, through none other than Eric Holder, to advise them on combating perceptions of bias against conservatives.
Can’t make this crap up.

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There is no Facebook bias against conservatives.
@Greg: Yeah, right. All the statistical evidence of the restriction of traffic on conservative sites is just an anomaly.
Why not let Rush Limbaugh select someone to police bias against conservatives?
Of course he is very conservative. Back in 2/09 when these Commies from the Tea Party said he has unfit to be A.G.; GWB’s allies (2 of the most Reagan loving conservatives in America) Graham and McCain attacked them for being “Xenophobic, white supremacists, racists”! The Tea Party Commies got the word and stopped fighting Eric. Who as Johnny predicted turned out to be America’s best AG since Janet Reno.
If the Bush boys say he is conservative – HE IS CONSERVATIVE! AND, AS JOHNIE SAID ,WAS A WONDERFUL A.G.!
How can anyone question Facebook’s clearly honest “Pasionate Conservative” hiring?
And what evidence would that be?
The anti-conservative bias is a bullshit claim. Unless, of course, you consider Facebook efforts to close down phony user accounts held by political trolls and the purveyors of slander and false news to be inherently anti-conservative.
How about not censoring freedom of speech, censor the terrorists, kiddie porn people, those that make death threatsof any kind, allow people to censor what and whom they personally do not want to hear. No one has the right to not be offended, they do have the right to not listen. A simple mute feature for those that you consider personally offensive. Having to have anyone else do this for you is weak and stupid.
Greg: And what evidence would that be? I was following Cruz during the election I should have seen all his tweets, as well as the other conservatives I was following, I had to go to their page to read them.
It happens on google, twitter and faceplant.
@kitt, #12:
They don’t want their social media platform to become a tool for filling people’s heads up with disinformation. It’s their platform. They have no obligation to allow it to be used in any fashion that they consider inappropriate.
Are you not the same people who railed against regulatory efforts to prevent large corporations from taking advantage of their powers to control the flow of information on the internet? Yeah, this is part of what that was about.
@Greg: I don’t suppose you heard the testimony of Diamond and Silk or other conservative sites. Of course not; that would contradict your liberal biases.
Really. So you think that the same thing the physically happens on the streets, on campuses or on television cannot possibly happen on Facebook. OK. Good luck with a life of willful ignorance.
That is absolute 100% horse shit. I do have a few liberal friends left on Facebook (that haven’t un-friended ME) and the trash they post is unrestricted. The difference is that Conservatives don’t pitch a twisted panties bitch over reading something they don’t like.
It IS indeed their platform. However, if they want or to be a Media Matters/Daily Kos/Huffington they should be honest about it.
@Greg: I dont use google twitter or facebook because of their facist attitudes, there are other platforms, and the darkweb. I surf in stealthmode, there are sites that dont allow privacy settings, so the information is not worth my click.
@Greg: Greg?
Why do you insult yourself that way? It’s one thing to be stupid, but it’s entirely something else to stand up and announce it. Why don’t you sit down and keep silent and hope no one else notices?
@Greg:
not just no, BUT HELL NO! I was and still am for a free open internet. Every one is free to buy what ever service they wish.
@Redteam: Greg will never appreciate free thought or speech. Opinions differing from a liberal echo chamber are a danger to his form of socialist fascism.
https://pjmedia.com/trending/2017/02/20/11-year-old-docked-points-for-not-bashing-trump/
Im sure he thinks this dad should lose his parental rights, the kids given to a gay couple who will benadryl them and drive off a cliff.
Tell me would 80 years in prison for Holder and Obama over Fast & Furious be to easy for these two scoundrels
@Greg:
Given that you seem to consider anything with a left of center slant as ‘normal’ and everything else as a right-wing conspiracy theory, not that terribly surprising.
This covers more than just FB, but I guess what you’re trying to tell us is that none of this actually happened?
I mean, who are we going to believe? Greg, or our own lying eyes…
But, you know, I have it on good authority that claims of an anti-conservative bias are ‘bullshit’.
I’m sure just because he’s a major Democrat donor who wanted to make sure Hillary won the election, none of that bias filtered down into how Google treated searches during the campaign.
@Jay:
So, why isn’t Mueller looking into the monitary value of that assistance and how it was never accounted for as a contribution by Hillary’s campaign? He seems to have taken an interest in campaign finances lately. We KNOW it can’t be due to bias.
@Deplorable Bill: #14
Why, because only Republicans would every think of breaking election rules…
(sarc off)
Or maybe because the liberal-biased media is only concerned about creating an appearance of it when they think they can smear Republicans.
@Greg: LOL
@Jay:
And the liberal-biased “investigations”.
This freak needs to be arrested and charged with the logan act, enough of this shadow government BS https://www.bostonglobe.com/news/nation/2018/05/04…
just as Holder being the new minister of truth in social media represents the shadow government involving themselves into total control, who are all the Obama era holdovers still in unelected positions following?