Big Tech’s revisionist agenda is now in high gear.
Facebook took a swing at President Trump, and its own credibility, by removing the title of “President” from his page and replacing it with “political candidate,” a total denial of reality that flies in the face of the social media company’s ostensible obsession with fact-checking and its constant tirades against disinformation.
Author Dinesh D’Souza noted the outrageous switch on Twitter:
Social media, along with the rest of the mainstream media, has been involved in a nonstop propaganda campaign to convince Americans that Biden legitimately won the presidency since long before the election, but those efforts went into overdrive following Election Day.
Prior to the election, Facebook indicated that immediately after Election Night they would censor posts declaring anyone to be the winner, a move clearly aimed at President Trump (establishment voices such as the Transition Integrity Project had been saying for months that there would be a “red mirage” in which it appeared Trump was winning on Election Night, but that the lead would transform into a Biden win with the counting of mail-in ballots).
Indeed, immediately after the election, Facebook placed a banner at the top of users’ newsfeed and in messenger stating that there was no declared winner. Once the media crowned Joe Biden “president-elect,” however (and there will be no president-elect until the Electoral College selects one on December 14), a new banner quickly went up on those spots saying that there is a projected winner of the race.
Facebook also placed a blackout on political advertising going into the election, a move that most impacted grassroots and the anti-establishment Right.
Facebook plays an important role for campaign and alternative-media companies, particularly at a time when people are staying at home due to coronavirus policies. The Trump campaign made effective use of Facebook ads’ targeted messaging tools in 2016, leading some voices on the Left to criticize the platform. The social network has also been charged with being used by Russian operatives to spread misinformation during the 2016 election.
Facebook’s ability to create audiences by targeting users based on geographical location, interest, age, and other traits had made it useful for independent publishers who lack the capital of the mainstream-media outlets. The campaign against “misinformation” has resulted in a crackdown on many of these small pro-Trump Facebook-driven conservative news outlets.
It should come as no surprise that Facebook has played a key role in censoring the flow of information that would hurt Biden’s cause. The company is staffed by socialists, Democrats, and former Biden staffers.
As The New American previously reported, Anna Makanju, Facebook’s global policy manager for content regulation, advised Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden on Ukraine policy while he served as vice president and defended him against charges of wrongdoing with regard to Ukraine when she spoke to the Washington Post last year.
Makanju’s current role at Facebook may have given her the opportunity to influence the social-media platform’s decision to suppress a recent story from the New York Post that revealed that Joe Biden’s son, Hunter, introduced his then-vice president father to an executive at the Ukrainian energy company Burisma.
The alleged meeting between Joe Biden and the Burisma executive occurred less than a year before the Democrat pressured the Ukrainian government into firing a prosecutor who was investigating Burisma.
Then there’s Martin Sanchez, who helps develop the algorithms that automatically “classify” content posted to the platform.
Sanchez is a socialist who spent seven years as a government official in Venezuela and even created a website to promote the ideals of former socialist dictator Hugo Chávez before taking up work at the social-media giant.
Ariel Sheen, a doctoral student at Universidad Pontificia Bolivariana in Medellín, Colombia, provided details about Sanchez’s involvement in the international communist movement.
“I began investigating Martin Sanchez following research into the Venezuelan government’s plan to radicalize the Western Hemisphere and the detection of two patterns: Venezuelan state enterprises employing members of militant anarchist, communist and secessionist organizations — such as the Party for Socialism and Liberation — and Venezuelan ambassadors being present at strategic conferences held by these groups,” Sheen said.
This should serve as further evidence that Americans should not trust the “mainstream” narrative sold by corporate news outlets and big social-media platforms. Their mission was never to inform or educate the public, but to sell a partisan agenda.
