Media Matters

[Irish#1]

Biden's trillion dollar infrastructure plan appears in jeopardy and this is the headline on cnn.com

Biden's multi-trillion bet to change America is in peril as Trump waits to pounce

A fight for the Democratic Party's soul plays out as ex-President Trump accelerates an assault on democracy

Rather than discuss Biden's failings, they keep trying to deflect to Trump. lol

 

[NorthDakota]

Biden's trillion dollar infrastructure plan appears in jeopardy and this is the headline on cnn.com

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Rather than discuss Biden's failings, they keep trying to deflect to Trump. lol

I'm guessing they've figured out that incorporating Trump into headlines and articles is getting them X% more clicks.

 

[drayer54]

Biden's trillion dollar infrastructure plan appears in jeopardy and this is the headline on cnn.com

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Rather than discuss Biden's failings, they keep trying to deflect to Trump. lol

Stick to what you know. Blame Trump. They want him back, so I am willing to guess they go back to covering him at rallies and crap again.

Also- notice "Republicans fail to advance" has become "Republicans block" in the headlines.

 

[BrownerandFry]

What I find fascinating is that in a nation with freedom of speech embodied in the first amendment of the bill of rights, that people here become unglued when some one of the tentacles of the megaoctopus press does not print what they like.

You know the answer?

Do what Matt Drudge did
Do what Andrew Breitbart did.
freakin' Arianna Huffington did.

Save your money and start your own network,/informatione flows.

Want some, get some.

The race goes to the swift, the enterpreneurial
Not to the aggrieved, the lazy, the impoverished and the butthurt.

Life is tough, Play Hard.

 

[Irish#1]

Favorite part of this article is Facebook saying they won't come after Haugen the whistle blower. lol

Facebook whistleblower reveals identity, accuses the platform of a 'betrayal of democracy'

Frances Haugen said she “became increasingly alarmed by the choices the company makes prioritizing their own profits over public safety."


By Lauren Feiner, CNBC
A Facebook whistleblower who brought internal documents detailing the company’s research to The Wall Street Journal and the U.S. Congress unmasked herself ahead of an interview she gave to “60 Minutes,” which aired Sunday night.

Frances Haugen, a former product manager on Facebook’s civic misinformation team, according to her website, revealed herself as the source behind a trove of leaked documents. On her personal website, she shared that during her time at the company, she “became increasingly alarmed by the choices the company makes prioritizing their own profits over public safety — putting people’s lives at risk. As a last resort and at great personal risk, Frances made the courageous act to blow the whistle on Facebook.”

Haugen previously worked as a product manager at Pinterest, Yelp and Google, according to her LinkedIn profile. She also lists herself as the technical co-founder behind the dating app Hinge, saying she took its precursor, Secret Agent Cupid, to market.

“I’ve seen a bunch of social networks and it was substantially worse at Facebook than anything I’d seen before,” Haugen told “60 Minutes.”

Haugen told “60 Minutes” she left Facebook in May.

Jeff Horwitz, the Journal reporter who wrote the series of articles based on the leaked documents, also shared Haugen’s identity on Twitter on Sunday night, revealing her as the key source behind the stories.

The documents, first reported by the Journal, revealed that Facebook executives had been aware of negative impacts of its platforms on some young users, among other findings. For example, the Journal reported that one internal document found that of teens reporting suicidal thoughts, 6% of American users traced the urge to kill themselves to Instagram.

Facebook has since said that the Journal’s reporting cherry-picked data and that even headlines on its own internal presentations ignored potentially positive interpretations of the data, like that many users found positive impacts from engagement with their products.

“Every day our teams have to balance protecting the ability of billions of people to express themselves openly with the need to keep our platform a safe and positive place,” Facebook spokesperson Lena Pietsch said in a statement following Haugen’s identity reveal. “We continue to make significant improvements to tackle the spread of misinformation and harmful content. To suggest we encourage bad content and do nothing is just not true.”

Haugen said she decided this year to make Facebook’s internal communications public, saying she realized she would need to do so “in a systemic way” and “get out enough that no one can question that this is real.”

Haugen in turn copied and released tens of thousands of pages of documents, “60 Minutes” reported.

Haugen pointed to the 2020 election as a turning point at Facebook. She said Facebook had announced it was dissolving the “Civic Integrity” team, to which she was assigned, after the election. Just a few months later, social media communications would be a key focus in the wake of the January 6 insurrection at the U.S. Capitol.

“When they got rid of Civic Integrity, it was the moment where I was like, ‘I don’t trust that they’re willing to actually invest what needs to be invested to keep Facebook from being dangerous,’” Haugen told “60 Minutes.”

Facebook told the news program that it had distributed the work of the Civic Integrity team to other units.

Haugen pointed to Facebook’s algorithm as the element that pushes misinformation onto users. She said Facebook recognized the risk of misinformation to the 2020 election and therefore added safety systems to reduce that risk. But, she said, Facebook loosened those safety measures once again after the election.

“As soon as the election was over, they turned them back off or they changed the settings back to what they were before, to prioritize growth over safety,” Haugen said. “And that really feels like a betrayal of democracy to me.”

In an interview with the Journal published shortly after the “60 Minutes” piece began to air, Haugen said she had found much of the research she took with her in Facebook’s internal employee forum, which she said was accessible to virtually all Facebook employees. She looked for research from colleagues she admired, according to the Journal, which she often found in goodbye posts calling out Facebook’s alleged failures.

Haugen also told the Journal that she openly questioned why Facebook didn’t hire more workers to tackle its issues with human exploitation on its platforms, among other things.

“Facebook acted like it was powerless to staff these teams,” she told the Journal.

Facebook spokesperson Andy Stone told the Journal that it has “invested heavily in people and technology to keep our platform safe, and have made fighting misinformation and providing authoritative information a priority.”

Lawmakers have appeared unmoved by Facebook’s responses to the Journal’s reporting based on Haugen’s disclosures. During a hearing before the Senate Commerce subcommittee on consumer protection Thursday, senators on both sides of the aisle lambasted the company, urging it to make its temporary pause on building an Instagram platform for kids permanent. The lawmakers said they did not have faith Facebook could be a good steward of such a platform based on the reports and past behavior.

The whistleblower is scheduled to testify before the Senate Commerce subcommittee on consumer protection on Tuesday. Facebook’s Global Head of Safety Antigone Davis told lawmakers on Thursday that Facebook would not retaliate against the whistleblower for her disclosures to the Senate.

“Facebook’s actions make clear that we cannot trust it to police itself,” Sen. Richard Blumenthal, D-Conn., who chairs the subcommittee, said in a statement Sunday night. “We must consider stronger oversight, effective protections for children, and tools for parents, among the needed reforms.”

Haugen said she has “empathy” for Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg, saying he “has never set out to make a hateful platform. But he has allowed choices to be made where the side effects of those choices are that hateful, polarizing content gets more distribution and more reach.”

She called for more regulations over the company to keep it in check.

“Facebook has demonstrated they cannot act independently Facebook, over and over again, has shown it chooses profit over safety,” Haugen told “60 Minutes.” “It is subsidizing, it is paying for its profits with our safety. I’m hoping that this will have had a big enough impact on the world that they get the fortitude and the motivation to actually go put those regulations into place. That’s my hope.”

 

[drayer54]

Favorite part of this article is Facebook saying they won't come after Haugen the whistle blower. lol

Facebook is getting some karma today.

[TWEET]https://twitter.com/GossiTheDog/status/1445065065527394321?s=20[/TWEET]

 

[Irish#1]

They need a bigger dose of Karma.

 

[drayer54]

Journalism is dead.

[TWEET]https://twitter.com/MSNBC/status/1457804650162253828?s=20[/TWEET]

 

[ab2cmiller]

[TWEET]https://twitter.com/aghamilton29/status/1457822321465495556?s=21[/TWEET]

 

[Irish#1]

Unfortunately the press won't reexamine themselves and how they report.

Just jumped on cnn.com to see what they reported. Oddly enough, after several days on the front page, there is nothing on their front page about the trial. Their primary focus is still Trump. lol

 

[drayer54]

Unfortunately the press won't reexamine themselves and how they report.

Just jumped on cnn.com to see what they reported. Oddly enough, after several days on the front page, there is nothing on their front page about the trial. Their primary focus is still Trump. lol

By Trump, I assume you mean the entire Russian narrative being revealed to be democratic operatives colluding with Russians to feed made up conspiracies to the media that they used to push a narrative to cloud Trump's entire term? Prob calling out Swalwell and Schiff for blatant lies?

 

[drayer54]

By Trump, I assume you mean the entire Russian narrative being revealed to be democratic operatives colluding with Russians to feed made up conspiracies to the media that they used to push a narrative to cloud Trump's entire term? Prob calling out Swalwell and Schiff for blatant lies?

The View throwing out some fire today

[TWEET]https://twitter.com/MaryMargOlohan/status/1458130688541171721?s=20[/TWEET]

 

[Bishop2b5]

"No, I think just your credibility is." Boom! That was direct, on point, and 100% true. His claims that they couldn't have known in advance that the Steele dossier was based on false info is a direct and whopping lie. The Clinton campaign, Schiff, and the other powers that be who wanted to use the dossier were told by the FBI and the intel services that Steele was a known liar and unreliable, that if the claims in the dossier were true they'd have heard of those claims through other sources, and that the entire thing was almost certainly a work of fiction. When he says they couldn't have known it was untrue until after investigating it for years, that is a bald-faced lie. She was absolutely right to call him out on it.

 

[ulukinatme]

This feels like a really bad take from someone that makes over $200,000 a year as a news anchor for NBC and has a net worth of $5 mil. You shouldn't worry about inflation because you should have been saving during the pandemic?

Reminds me of a piece that asked hospital administrators and other medical professionals what they thought when over 50% of Americans weren't paying their medical bills due to rising costs: "You should have been putting extra money aside..." as if many aren't living paycheck to paycheck as it is.

[TWEET]https://twitter.com/NickFondacaro/status/1459923280664711170[/TWEET]

 

[Irish#1]

This feels like a really bad take from someone that makes over $200,000 a year as a news anchor for NBC and has a net worth of $5 mil. You shouldn't worry about inflation because you should have been saving during the pandemic?

Reminds me of a piece that asked hospital administrators and other medical professionals what they thought when over 50% of Americans weren't paying their medical bills due to rising costs: "You should have been putting extra money aside..." as if many aren't living paycheck to paycheck as it is.

[TWEET]https://twitter.com/NickFondacaro/status/1459923280664711170[/TWEET]

It feels like a really bad taken because it is a really bad take. lol

 

[Irishize]

Sorry…too good not to share.

 

[drayer54]

Toobin was ranting about abortion today after his history of demanding a woman he knocked up get one.

 

[NorthDakota]

Toobin was ranting about abortion today after his history of demanding a woman he knocked up get one.

Toobin should have lost his job over that. He should have lost it again after threatening to ruin her career. He should have lost it for a 3rd time when he literally jerked off in front of co-workers.

I'm sorry but he's not Ted Cruz...or even some lesser legal mind like Preet Barhara. I have no idea the fascination with having such a disgusting and mediocre problem child on the payroll.

 

[Irish#1]

Toobin should have lost his job over that. He should have lost it again after threatening to ruin her career. He should have lost it for a 3rd time when he literally jerked off in front of co-workers.

I'm sorry but he's not Ted Cruz...or even some lesser legal mind like Preet Barhara. I have no idea the fascination with having such a disgusting and mediocre problem child on the payroll.

Hard to believe CNN took him back. Who's going to watch him now and think of anything, but him extending his flag pole?

 

[Irish#1]

New York (CNN Business)CNN has suspended prime time anchor Chris Cuomo "indefinitely, pending further evaluation," after new documents revealed the cozy and improper nature of his relationship with aides to his brother, former New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo.

A second hour of "Anderson Cooper 360" aired in Cuomo's place on Tuesday night. A town hall about Covid-19 will air Wednesday night.
Tuesday's announcement about the suspension was the equivalent of a cable news shockwave. Cuomo's 9 p.m. program is frequently CNN's most-watched hour of the day. He is a larger-than-life presence at the network. And he was determined to stay on TV this year despite a flurry of sexual misconduct allegations against his brother, which culminated in the governor's resignation three months ago.But new documents released on Monday showed that the veteran journalist was more intimately involved than previously known in shaping his brother's defense.

 

[BrownerandFry]

Some complain, some whine.
What do captitalists and enterpreneurs do?

William F. Buckley 1955.
Bill Kristol 1995
John Kennedy Jr.1995
Matthew Drudge 1995
.

Alex Jones 1999
Markos Moulitsas 5/2002
Glenn Beck 2002

Arianna Huffington2005

Andrew Breitbart 2007

Thus was it ever.

 

[BrownerandFry]

GAME CHANGER!

https://www.cnet.com/tech/services-...o-leave-congress-to-run-trumps-media-company/


GOP Rep. Devin Nunes to leave Congress to run Trump's media company

California Republican Rep. Devin Nunes, a longtime ally of Donald Trump, will leave Congress to run the former president's new social media company.

The Trump Media & Technology group said in a statement that Nunes will serve as its chief executive officer, beginning in January. Trump announced in October it would launch a social network called Truth Social to take on Twitter, Facebook and Google-owned YouTube after those companies booted him from their platforms following the deadly US Capitol Hill riot in January.


Nunes, 48, first took office in 2003 but faces an unlikely prospect of reelection in the 2022 midterms due to realignment of congressional districts.

"The time has come to reopen the Internet and allow for the free flow of ideas and expression without censorship," Nunes said in a statement. "The United States of America made the dream of the Internet a reality and it will be an American company that restores the dream."

As the top Republican on the House Intelligence Committee, Nunes defended Trump during his 2019 impeachment trial. In 2017, he launched the committee's investigation into Trump's ties to Russia but recused himself after Democrats accused him of leaking classified information to the Trump administration. He denied the charges and was cleared a year later after a House Ethics Committee probe.

Nunes was also among the 147 Republican lawmakers who voted to overturn the results of the 2020 election, in which Trump's Democratic challenger, Joe Biden, prevailed. That vote came just hours after a mob of Trump supporters stormed the US Capitol building in a riot that left several people dead, including a Capitol Police officer.

Trump said in October that his new company will "stand up to the tyranny of Big Tech" and has for some time claimed without evidence that social media companies discriminate against the right, a charge the firms have repeatedly denied.

Nunes has also been critical of social media, filing a $250 million lawsuit in 2019 that alleged Twitter censors conservative voices through "shadow-banning" and makes money from "abusive, harmful and defamatory" content. Also named as defendants in the lawsuit were the satirical Twitter account of a fake cow and one that parodies the California Republican's mother.

Nunes' lawsuit alleged that the @DevinNunesMom and @DevinCow accounts posted defamatory statements about him during the 2018 congressional election and that Twitter didn't do enough to curb this behavior. A Virginia judge dismissed the lawsuit in 2020, citing a federal law that shields social media companies from responsibility for what people post on their sites.

Lawsuits that allege censorship and that argue social media companies violate the First Amendment when they remove posts or ban users have repeatedly been rejected by courts across the country. The First Amendment applies to the government, not to private companies like social media sites.

The Trump Media and Technology Group merged with Digital World Acquisition Corporation, a Miami-based company listed on the Nasdaq, to form a new company chaired by Trump. Digital World Acquisition Corporation is a special-purpose acquisition company, or "blank check company," according to a May filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission. SPACs are shell corporations with no commercial operations listed on a public stock exchange with the purpose of acquiring or merging with a private company, thus making it public as well.

 

[NorthDakota]

Not sure a rep like Nunes retiring is anything resembling a "game changer." That's reserved for a very small group.

 

[Irish#1]

faces an unlikely prospect of reelection in the 2022 midterms due to realignment of congressional districts.

Well if you know you're going to be laid off and you have another job offer.......

 

[drayer54]

Not sure a rep like Nunes retiring is anything resembling a "game changer." That's reserved for a very small group.

Being a minority party member of Congress is a terrible job. Prob why the dems are retiring in mass now as they look at the prospects of 2022. It's especially bad in the House where majority rule is all you need. Senate works together more effectively.

 

[BrownerandFry]

Not sure a rep like Nunes retiring is anything resembling a "game changer." That's reserved for a very small group.

well, reading, and observing captions is a fundamental skill.

The title of this thing if "Media Matters>"

Media

Matters thereon.

The gravamen of the article, its materiality was Devin's move to "RECTIFY" the abuses in the media often limned in this "Media Matters" thread.

His retirement was somewhere on a continuum from "incidental" to "irrevelant"

MEDIA MATTERS, n'cest pas?

 

[Bishop2b5]

CNN Staffer John Griffin Charged With Enticing Moms, Daughters Into 'Sexual Activity' (msn.com)

CNN's John Griffin, who was Chris Cuomo's producer, has been arrested by the FBI and charged with three counts related to the sexual abuse of underage girls. Among the incidents were paying a mother to bring her 9-year-old daughter to him where the child then engaged in sexual acts. Lots of lurid acts mostly involving trying to get underage girls to let him train them in sexual subservience. Major creep. That he was a big shot at CNN and Cuomo's producer should shock no one.

 

[ulukinatme]

CNN Staffer John Griffin Charged With Enticing Moms, Daughters Into 'Sexual Activity' (msn.com)

CNN's John Griffin, who was Chris Cuomo's producer, has been arrested by the FBI and charged with three counts related to the sexual abuse of underage girls. Among the incidents were paying a mother to bring her 9-year-old daughter to him where the child then engaged in sexual acts. Lots of lurid acts mostly involving trying to get underage girls to let him train them in sexual subservience. Major creep. That he was a big shot at CNN and Cuomo's producer should shock no one.

Fucking disgusting, the parent needs to go to jail too. There's even more in there now that I read it fully. Damn...

 

[NorthDakota]

A nine year old??? Fourteen is gross too don't get me wrong... but nine? That's objectively pedophile shit. He should not get out of prison unless it's in a coffin.

assuming the allegations are true of course

 

[drayer54]

Xi Jimping doesn't even flaunt his state media that hard.