Facebook Scaled Back Voter Registration Kickoff

Facebook Scaled Back Voter Registration Kickoff(techtransparencyproject.org)

88 points by nolta 5 years ago | 15 comments

MBCook 5 years ago |

It should say something that one party is against voting. Sadly it doesn’t seem to.

HumblyTossed 5 years ago | |

They're not against voting. They're against certain people voting.

metalliqaz 5 years ago | | |

A few years ago I would have agreed with you, but now they really do seem to be open to the idea of full dictatorship.

thomasahle 5 years ago | | |

Most of the people they want voting are already voting. They are against expanding voting.

mensetmanusman 5 years ago |

Damned if you do/don’t

0xy 5 years ago |

>The initiative, however, immediately drew the ire of the Trump campaign, which accused Facebook—without evidence—of secretly using the effort to help Biden.

Evidence does exist, so this statement is baffling. As recently as June content moderators on Facebook were covertly recorded bragging about being politically biased. [1]

The same moderators explicitly claimed the company was "anti-Trump", and said "I think [all of the moderators] do that [delete posts for political reasons]".

Reading into the source (Campaign for Accountability), it's clear why they neglected to mention the evidence -- because they are politically biased themselves. [2]

[1] https://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2020/06/23/facebook_...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Campaign_for_Accountability

tobr 5 years ago | |

You have not presented any evidence that the voter registration initiative is secretly an effort to help the Biden campaign.

tehwebguy 5 years ago | |

> The same moderators explicitly claimed the company was "anti-Trump"

Well, they’re not. They have even carved out special exceptions to their content policy explicitly to prevent any punishment of Trump’s accounts even when he violates the policy.

captainredbeard 5 years ago | | |

To be fair, “anti-Trump” can mean (and probably means) bias against Trump supporters, not his accounts.

kumarvvr 5 years ago |

Isn't it the duty of the agency responsible for conducting elections that has to do this?

FB should be ignored and media should not promote these articles. Sure, they can help if they want, but the primary information source should be the nodal election agency.

Americans have been brainwashed to view the government as some sort of an evil lunatic preventing all of them from becoming billionaires. This is a dangerous narrative and will ultimately lead the nation to dictatorship, as is already happening.

daveFNbuck 5 years ago | |

So I shouldn't view the government as being some sort of evil lunatic, but it is already becoming a dictatorship?