Facebook Content Moderator: โIf Someone is Wearing a MAGA Hat, I Am Going to Delete Them for Terrorismโ
Project Veritas strikes again! Read this dialogue!
Facebook Insider Zach McElroy said, “I Will Testify Before Congress About the Facebook Bias I Witnessed Against Trump Supporters, Conservative Causes.”
McElroy: โWe are essentially in charge of what gets said and what gets stifledโ
McElroy: 75-to-80 percent of Posts Selected by Facebookโs Algorithm for Moderator Review Support President Donald Trump, Republicans, and Conservative Causes.
Facebook Content Review Lead: โItโs a Very Progressive Company, Whoโs Very Anti-MAGAโ
Facebookโs Human-Directed Restriction of Free Speech Raises Questions Regarding Companyโs Protections under Section 230 of the 1996 Communications Decency Actย
Project Veritas today released one of the most damning undercover investigation reportsโthis time insiders used hidden cameras to document rampant censorship occurring at social media giant: Facebook.
Recordings captured Facebook content moderators bragging about deleting posts and comments supporting President Donald Trump and conservative causes.
โZach McElroyโs story raises serious doubts about the Capitol Hill testimony of Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg, who gave lawmakers the impression that his company only takes content that could cause harm, such as relating to terrorism or hate speech, but never for politics,โ said James OโKeefe, Project Veritasโ founding CEO.
โFacebook and other social media platforms are protected by Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act because they claim that unlike traditional publishers that do not actively edit contentโthey say they are like the phone company just stringing wires on poles,โ said OโKeefe.
โFacebookโs $400 billion market capitalization is tied to this protection and our report shows for the first time anywhere Facebookโs robust and human-directed process for restricting the marketplace of ideas, which calls into question their CDA 230 immunity,โ he said.
DELETE THE PRESIDENT
In one example, McElroy captured as a screenshot, President Donald Trump posted on Facebook about Republican successes, including electing a GOP governor of Mississippi. In the screenshot, Trumpโs account is labeled โVerified and Shielded,โ but a seemingly innocuous comment on the post: โCleaning up the houseโ with heart emojis is flagged in the Single Review Tool for adjudication.
One of the content moderators was asked if she deleted every Republican item that came up on her queue, she said: โYes! I donโt give no f*cks, Iโll delete it.โ
The same moderator said she does not take down anti-Trump content, even if it did not violate policy.
โYou gotta take it down but I leave it up,โ she said. โIf you see something thatโs not supposed to be up, itโs probably me.โ
Another content moderator, Lara Kontakos, was asked what she did when she saw posts supporting the president: โIf someone is wearing a MAGA hat, I am going to delete them for terrorism.โ
Facebook appears to violated Section 230 and Mark Zuckerberg might have lied under oath.
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