Facebook Relying Solely on Snitches to Enforce Gun-Sale Ban

February 3rd, 2016 6:36 PM
A great deal was made of Facebook's announcement last week that it would ban private gun sales on both its flagship website and Instagram. Readers who only followed establishment press accounts can be forgiven if they came away from most reports thinking that the firm has some kind of algorithm or recognition system for enforcing the ban. That's not so.

Time Editor Kluger: Facebook Should Censor Anti-Vaxxer Voices

February 19th, 2015 4:57 PM
Time magazine editor-at-large and global-warming alarmist Jeffrey Kluger called on Facebook today to censor users who promote criticisms of vaccines, commonly known as anti-vaxxers. While Kluger is absolutely right to note that Facebook would be well within its rights to do so and that private-party censorship is not a First Amendment free-speech issue, Kluger's paternalistic lecturing and the…

Politico Describes Mark Zuckerberg's Failure to Fool Conservatives Int

July 8th, 2014 3:29 PM
Remember all those radio and television ads running for over a year supporting immigration "reform" sponsored by a group with the annoyingly deceptive title of "Americans for a Conservative Direction?" They were financed by Obama acolyte and Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg. However, if you think many people were fooled by those ads you would be wrong according to Jessica Meyer at Politico.…

Far Left Groups Step Up Hate Campaign Against Facebook's Mark Zuckerbe

May 8th, 2013 1:19 PM
The far left hate campaign against Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg is really quite a sight to behold. The guy clearly is not a conservative but the fact that a political group he founded spent money on a 1-week television ad campaign featuring two senators speaking positively about oil drilling and the Keystone XL pipeline has sent the self-proclaimed merchants of tolerance into a fit of rage…

Leftist Group Falsely Accuses Facebook of Targeting It for Censorship

May 2nd, 2013 2:34 AM
A far-left activist group is upset at Facebook because the social network company is blocking it from using Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg’s image as a means to attack him via his own creation. CREDO Mobile, a small cellphone operator which uses left-wing activism as a way to promote its business (apparently some corporations are people), has launched a new campaign to condemn Zuckerberg…

AP's Writeup on Expiration of Facebook 'Lock-up' Period Fails to Note

August 14th, 2012 3:12 PM
In her story this aftermoon on the imminent expiration of the company's "lock-up" period during which certain employees and insiders must hold onto their company stock, Associated Press Technology writer Barbara Ortutay reports that Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg will be locked into his holdings until mid-November -- while omitting out of apparent ignorance the fact that he previously cashed…

NBC's Star Jones Rants: Okay 'Rich White Guy' Zuckerberg Wears Hoodie

May 17th, 2012 12:51 PM
In a bizarre attempt to make Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg wearing a hoodie at a recent Wall Street meeting into a racial issue, on Thursday's NBC Today, attorney and panelist Star Jones decried the supposed "hypocrisy" of it all: "...when we talk about Mark Zuckerberg, rich white guy, wearing a hoodie, we call him brainy and self-confident....But when a young black kid walks down the street…

Facebook Upgrade Raises Questions About Network Favoring Liberal Group

May 25th, 2011 11:44 AM
A software upgrade at Facebook has some conservative groups worried that their hard-earned followings might be rendered useless. The upgrade will "archive" all existing Facebook groups, thereby revoking administrators' access to member lists, unless they receive an exemption from Facebook (and the accompanying software). The company has not revealed how groups are being chosen for these…

Facebook CEO Hosts Obama Townhall, Bitter Clingers Probably Not Invite

April 8th, 2011 9:44 AM
It wasn't long ago that Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg was concerned about how he would be portrayed in The Social Network - and with good reason. As John Nolte observed, "there's no doubt that this look at how the creation of a cultural phenomenon left behind a wake of betrayals, broken relationships and billion-dollar lawsuits is an absolutely fascinating one."

Matthews Dumps on 'Misanthropic' Joe Miller, Compares Him to 'Unlikabl

October 14th, 2010 6:34 PM
  Chris Matthews and Chuck Todd tag-teamed against Alaskan Republican Senate nominee Joe Miller, on Thursday's Hardball, as Todd claimed Miller was "running a terrible campaign" and warned that "it may be popular among conservatives to bash the media" but Miller is "turning off" voters when he does it. For his part Matthews called Miller "unlikable" going as far to compare him to the negative…

Facebook CEO Defends Company in ABC Interview, Advocates Democracy

July 22nd, 2010 12:06 PM
Despite his aloofness, it might be time to become a fan of Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg."World News" devoted three segments to the social networking company on July 21, the day it reached 500 million users. Reporter Bill Weir and anchor Diane Sawyer profiled Facebook and interviewed its CEO Mark Zuckerberg. Zuckerberg responded to Sawyer's questions about Facebook including whether or not…