On Tuesday morning, President Trump lashed out at Google, with his remarks later broadening to include Twitter and Facebook, accusing it of "rigging" search results by presenting only results "from National Left-Wing Media" and accused "Google & others are suppressing voices of Conservatives and hiding information and news that is good."
Those companies "better be careful because you can’t do that to people," Trump said later in the Oval Office. "I think that Google, and Twitter and Facebook, they are really treading on very, very troubled territory and they have to be careful. It is not fair to large portions of the population.”
Google immediately responded, condemning Trump's charge, and claiming that "Search is not used to set a political agenda and we don’t bias our results toward any political ideology."
And yet, as so often happens, in Trump's crude delivery, the politically incorrect truth was once again found.
According to a memo posted on Facebook's internal message board titled "We Have a Problem With Political Diversity", and which was published by the New York Times, senior Facebook engineer Brian Amerige confirmed Trump's allegation writing that "we are a political monoculture that’s intolerant of different views" and shockingly admitted that "we claim to welcome all perspectives, but are quick to attack — often in mobs — anyone who presents a view that appears to be in opposition to left-leaning ideology. We throw labels that end in *obe and *ist at each other, attacking each other’s character rather than their ideas."
The scathing indictment of Facebook's liberal "mono-culture" continues:
We do this so consistently that employees are afraid to say anything when they disagree with what’s around them politically. HR has told me that this is not a rare concern, and I’ve personally gotten over a hundred messages to that effect. Your colleagues are afraid because they know that they — not their ideas — will be attacked. They know that all the talk of “openness to different perspectives” does not apply to causes of “social justice,” immigration, “diversity”, and “equality.” On this issues, you can either keep quiet or sacrifice your reputation and career.
"These are not fears without cause" Amerige writes, and continues the stunning disclosure of the company's biased culture, "Because we tear down posters welcoming Trump supporters. We regularly propose removing Thiel from our board because he supported Trump. We’re quick to suggest firing people who turn out to be misunderstood, and even quicker to conclude our colleagues are bigots. We have made “All Lives Matter” a fireable offense. We put Palmer Luckey through a witch hunt because he paid for anti-Hillary ads. We write each other ad-hoc feedback in the PSC tool for having “offensive” ideas. We ask HR to investigate those who dare to criticize Islam’s human rights record for creating a “non inclusive environment.” And they called me a transphobe when I called out our corporate art for being politically radical.
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Amerige wasn't alone in his criticism of Silicon Valley's liberal bias, and as the NYT reports, since the post went up, "more than 100 Facebook employees have joined Mr. Amerige to form an online group called FB’ers for Political Diversity." The aim of the initiative, according to Mr. Amerige’s memo, is to create a space for ideological diversity within the company.
The new group has upset other Facebook employees, who said its online posts were offensive to minorities. One engineer, who declined to be identified for fear of retaliation, said several people had lodged complaints with their managers about FB’ers for Political Diversity and were told that it had not broken any company rules.
According to the NYT, the activity is a rare sign of organized dissent within Facebook "over the company’s largely liberal workplace culture." While the new group is just a sliver of Facebook’s work force of more than 25,000, the company’s workers have in the past appeared less inclined than their peers at other tech companies to challenge leadership, and most have been loyalists to its chief executive, Mark Zuckerberg.
It gets better: within Facebook, employees have argued over the decisions to ban certain accounts while allowing others. At staff meetings some workers have repeatedly asked for more guidance on what content the company disallows, and why.
The dispute over employees’ political ideology arose a week before Sheryl Sandberg, Facebook’s chief operating officer, is scheduled to testify at a Senate hearing about social media manipulation in elections. A team helping Ms. Sandberg get ready for the hearing next Wednesday has warned her that some Republican lawmakers may raise questions about Facebook and biases, according to two people involved in the preparations.
In May, Facebook announced that former Senator Jon Kyl, an Arizona Republican, would lead an inquiry into allegations of anticonservative bias on the social network, where new employees supposedly go through training that describes how to have respectful conversations about politics and diversity, and yet fail to achieve any results.
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As for the outspoken Facebook engineer, Amerige - who started working at Facebook in 2012 - said on his personal website that he followed philosophical principles laid out by the philosopher and writer Ayn Rand. He posted the 527-word memo about political diversity at Facebook on Aug. 20.
On issues like diversity and immigration, he wrote, “you can either keep quiet or sacrifice your reputation and career.”
Amerige proposed that Facebook employees debate their political ideas in the new group — one of tens of thousands of internal groups that cover a range of topics — adding that this debate would better equip the company to host a variety of viewpoints on its platform.
As for the prevailing bias withing Facebook, Amerige's conclusion is simple: "This is not okay. Not just for our internal culture, but for our own viability as a company."
"While the problem isn’t unique to us, we are entrusted by a great part of the world to be impartial and transparent carriers of people’s stories, ideas, and commentary. Congress doesn’t think we can do this. The President doesn’t think we can do this. And like them or not, we deserve that criticism" he admits.
"We are blind to and dismissive of what people beyond our walls (let alone even within our walls) think about complex issues that matter. I’ve been here for nearly 6.5 years and this has gotten exponentially worse in the last 2."
Or ever since Trump became president.
Amerige's full memo is below (pdf link)
Comments
Do not be Evil !
Yup.
Actually, I'm glad the numbskull shitlibs are too stuck up their own [front holes] to understand Trump's M.O. His bull in the china shop delivery gets the Marxist Media to yammer with glee, because he offends their pinky-up tea-drinking Hamptons dinner party sensibilities.
Then everyone looks at what Trump ACTUALLY SAID, and the Swamproaches find the light shining just a little more brightly on them.
Crazy like a fox, that one.
In reply to Do not be Evil !by zerohedgeJUNKIE
why is it politically "incorrect"?
Seems to be pretty politically "correct" round these parts.
In reply to And yet, as so often happens…by HopefulCynical
This is the big story that's not getting much coverage:
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2018/08/developing-chinese-govt-killed…
China killed or imprisoned 18 to 20 CIA sources from 2010 to 2012, hobbling U.S. spying operations in a massive intelligence breach whose origin has not been identified, the New York Times reported on Saturday.
The Chinese killed at least a dozen people providing information to the CIA from 2010 through 2012, dismantling a network that was years in the making, the newspaper reported.
At the same time a Chinese-owned company operating in the Washington, D.C., area hacked Hillary Clinton’s private server throughout her term as secretary of state.
In reply to why is it politically …by DingleBarryObummer
Walk away from Facebook.
It's all a trap.
In reply to This is the big story of the…by Whoa Dammit
Breaking: nut jobs tend to make nutty posts attracting other nut jobs
fify
In reply to Walk away from Facebook. …by Killtruck
So you admit it about yourself....... Congrats!
The reason why this matters in a legal sense primarily because they are a publicly traded company governed by the SEC and if they are openly lying about how they conduct their business that's manipulating their stock value.....
In reply to Breaking: nut jobs tend to…by Freeze These
Just start firing people who engage in that sort of behavior in a very public way, escort them out of the building, and give them bad references.
They will modify their behavior when they are no longer coddled by authority figures.
In reply to So you admit it about…by Stan522
LEADER TECHNOLOGIES FILES TRILLION DOLLAR BOND LIEN ON THE U.S. GOVERNMENT
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All of Facebook's social networking technology was outright stolen from Leader Technologies. It was then given to CIA-controlled Zuckerberg by DARPA-directed attorney JAMES P. CHANDLER so Zuck could become the newest social media sensation in Silicon Valley.
Leader CEO Michael McKibben has since filed a lien against the US Govt. His son attended Harvard at the same time as Zuckerberg.
http://stateofthenation2012.com/?p=101839
In reply to Just start firing people who…by tmosley
True story....
f'n .gov
Its surprising how few people are aware of this true story.
In reply to http://stateofthenation2012…by Super Sleuth
The good guys are going to use the government ownership angle soon- there are other solutions too, but that might be the most direct.
Example: if dod has a stake in fuckbook say, then dod can say that zuck is involved in sedition, nab him and put in a few lieutenant colonels and a mess of (hopefully really brutal)drill sergeants to run departments.
In reply to True story.... f'n .govby nunyabidnez
'THE JEW SUPREMACIST FOREIGN AGENT ORGANIZATION 'ADL' IS TAKING DOWN FREE SPEECH'
'ADL Trying to Criminalize Free Speech & Thought'
One of the organizations most interested in limiting conversations about what is going on in the world is the Jew created & administered Anti-Defamation League (ADL). The ADL claims that it is “the world’s leading organization combating anti-Semitism and hate of all kinds,” though it clearly excludes incitement or even physical harm directed against Palestinian Arabs resentful of the Israeli occupation of their country. Its definition of “hatred” is really quite selective and is focused on anyone criticizing Israel or Jewish-related issues. Its goal is to have any such speech or writing categorized as anti-Semitism and, eventually, to have “hate crime” legislation that criminalizes such expressions.
As most criticism of Israel or of Jews is currently limited to the alternative media, and that media lives on the Internet, the ADL and those who are like-minded now are focusing on “cyberhate” as the problem and are working with major Internet providers to voluntarily censor their product.
The ADL is quite adept at telling other people how to think. Back in 1999, the complaints of one Jewish officer who did not like how he was treated at CIA led to mandatory “Jewish sensitivity” training courses produced and presented by the ADL. Then Agency Director George Tenet, who mandated the training, explained, “With the help of ADL trainers we educated an entire bureaucracy and taught people about how their words could be misinterpreted in a manner that was detrimental to the interests of the country.” I was fortunately already out the door at that time and was not subjected to such nonsense, which would have led me to resign.
On Oct. 10, the ADL issued a press release out of its New York City offices to explain just how far that process has gone. The organization boasts of the fact that it is now working with Facebook, Google, Microsoft, and Twitter “to engineer new solutions to stop cyberhate.” Apple is not identified by name in the press release but one should presume that it is also involved, as well as YouTube, which is owned by Google. When you consider that the associates in this venture with the ADL are vast corporations that control huge slices of the communications industry, the consequences of some kind of corporate decision on what constitutes “hate” become clear. Combatting “cyberhate” will become across-the-board censorship for viewpoints that are considered to be unacceptable.
The ADL will be the “convener” for the group, providing “insight on how hate and extremist content manifests—and constantly evolves—online.”
This means it will define the problem, which it calls the “spew[ing] of hateful ideologies,” so the corporate world can take steps to block such material.
And “the initiative will be managed by the ADL’s Center for Technology and Society in Silicon Valley.”
To be sure, most groups who want to limit the flow of information do not have the clout or resources of the ADL with its $64 million annual operating budget so its “cyberhate” campaign will no doubt serve as a model that others will then follow. For the ADL, reducing criticism of Israel is a much-sought-after goal. For the rest of us, it is a trip into darkness."
http://americanfreepress.net/adl-trying-to-criminalize-free-speech-thou…
REMOVE ALL JEW SUPREMACISTS FROM ALL POSITIONS OF POWER< BOTH PUBLIC & PRIVATE-NOW!
In reply to The good guys are going to…by A Sentinel
卐acebook stock is today's confederate money. Spend it quick. Only Grandma still uses it. Tell her it is run by Godless Communists.
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In reply to 卐acebook stock is today's…by King of Ruperts Land
Facebook's problem is the idiot jew himself: Zuck. He thinks everybody is an idiot like him. His "MySpace" rip-off will end soon.
In reply to (above) **Biblicism…by More-Sun
If it wasn't for the Jewish Financial Establishment back up,
FaceJook would have been long gone.
In reply to Facebook's problem is the…by cheoll
More than that. The Kike Mob also runs shill operations where they target and harass anyone that doesn’t comply with their shit narratives that aren’t based in reality.
Using the feminist retards of the left to control animals because they are children stuck in men’s bodies obsessed with their cummies. The targeting of attractive women while they are young makes sense, they wish to use their attractiveness to control the men they otherwise wouldn’t be able to. The funny thing is that these same men think they are in charge, and don’t realize these women are manipulating them.
Then if you’re not a cuck and don’t comply with their attempts they try to convince everyone that you’re gay or something else when in fact you’re just a straight male that isn’t obsessed with his own cummies.
Clever system, shame that only leads to the Jews ruling in the end. Perhaps the children in men’s bodies will start listening to what I have been saying all these years.