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Ridgewood NJ, oh wow, The New York Times finally caught up to reality—only took them five years! You have to hand it to them: their commitment to being spectacularly wrong about COVID is truly impressive.
Continue reading The New York Times Finally Admits They Were Wrong About COVID—Five Years Too Late
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Ridgewood NJ, Meta, the parent company of Facebook, Instagram, and Threads, acknowledged challenges in enforcing its content moderation policies, admitting its error rates remain “too high.” The statement, made by Nick Clegg, Meta’s president of global affairs, comes as the company faces scrutiny over balancing free expression with safety on its platforms.
Continue reading Meta Admits to Content Moderation Errors, Downplays Censorship
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Ridgewood NJ, in a significant move, Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg has distanced himself from the controversial relationship between his company and the Biden-Harris administration. In a letter addressed to House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jim Jordan, Zuckerberg candidly revealed the intense pressure Meta faced from the government to censor content related to COVID-19, including satire, humor, and the Hunter Biden laptop story.
Continue reading Zuckerberg’s Fallout: Meta CEO Distances Himself from Biden-Harris Administration
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Ridgewood NJ, according to Our Lady of Mount Carmel Church in Ridgewood, Facebook no longer allows us to post our live stream of Mass to their site with no explanation as to why. They have done this to MOST churches not just us.
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Ridgewood NJ, remember when everyone in Washington from Senators Elizabeth Warren, Amy Klobuchar and Josh Hawley to the Biden FTC accused Facebook of engaging in illegal monopolistic behavior. Congress and the Biden Administration regulators were even pushing to break up Facebook , but they are too late. The market is already doing that on its own.
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Ridgewood NJ, for the first time in its 18-year history, Facebook lost close to 500,000 subscribers over the last three months. As a result, the parent company’s stock, Meta, plummeted 26%, shaving more than $220 billion of its value. That’s more than one-fifth of a TRILLION dollars lost in one day. This freefall comes on the heels of Facebook blocking US Trucker’s from their social media site for allegedly violating established policies. Watch out. US Truckers are now organizing a convoy to Washington, DC, similar to the movement sweeping across Canada. Some people speculate that limbo music might be in order for the newly named Meta stock: “How long can you go?”
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Ridgewood NJ, Facebook reported its first-ever quarterly decline of global daily users and lower-than-expected ad growth at an earnings call on Wednesday. The news resulted in a massive stock drop that wiped out roughly $200 billion in market value. Its drop in daily users may be due to Facebook’s increasing lack of relevance with young people. Meta is still wildly profitable, making nearly $40 billion last year. It plans to release its next VR headset later this year.
Continue reading Facebook loses daily users for the first time ever
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In the wake of controversy surrounding comedian Dave Chappelle, Americans overwhelming say “cancel culture” is out of control, and believe free speech should be protected against censorship.
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Trenton NJ, Chairman Hugin Blasts Twitter Over Suspension of Senator O’Scanlon’s Account , “Today, New Jersey Republican State Committee Chairman Bob Hugin released the following statement on the heels of Twitter’s decision to suspend Senator Declan O’Scanlon’s Twitter account, after he posted a tweet speaking out against mandatory vaccine passports.”
Continue reading NJ GOP Finally Speaking Out Over Big Tech Censorship
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Ridgewood NJ, the Facebook Ridgewood Moms and Dads group administrators have issued a warning in an attempt to prevent further leaks of conversations .
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Ridgewood NJ, the “Ridgewood Moms and Dads” a controversial Facebook group know for promoting an anti-free speech, far leftist agendas, virtue signalling , and promoting the destruction of the Village of Ridgewood thru high density housing , run by disciples of Paul Aronsohn is now looking to further subvert dissent in the Village by urging members to censor the “agitators “. “Agitators” is defined by anyone who disagrees with the group think leftist ,progressive agenda.
Continue reading There is chatter on Ridgewood Moms and Dads Facebook Group to “filter” out the dissidents
Updated on June 12, 2017 at 5:12 PMPosted on June 12, 2017 at 1:49 PM
BY ADAM CLARK
NJ Advance Media for NJ.com
WALL — The Wall Township High School yearbook advisor is suspended indefinitely as the district investigates why photos were edited to remove images supporting President Donald Trump, a district official said Monday.
The paid suspension comes after parents and students complained that at least two photos of students wearing Trump campaign shirts were edited and a Trump quote was removed from beneath another student’s photo.
Yearbook advisor Susan Parsons, a technology/media teacher, could not be reached by phone. A message to Parsons’ school email account was returned as “undeliverable” and a woman reached at her listed address in Wall Township declined to comment.
Parsons has worked in education for 21 years, including 13 in the district, according to state records.
Updated on June 9, 2017 at 10:53 PMPosted on June 9, 2017 at 2:35 PM
BY MARK DI IONNO
Columnist, The Star-Ledger
Grant Berardo wore his navy blue “TRUMP Make America Great Again” T-shirt to picture day last fall at Wall Township High School.
Nobody told him not to. And since he is only a junior, there was no picture-day dress code.
The proofs came back, with the picture the way he posed for it, Trump shirt and all. His picture day image is also used on the electronic student ID system, with Trump intact.
https://www.nj.com/news/index.ssf/2017/06/students_trump_shirt_black-out_in_high_school_year.html
By Karol Markowicz
December 4, 2016
Scrambling for an explanation for Donald Trump’s victory, many in the media and on the left have settled on the idea that his supporters were consumers of “fake news” — gullible rubes living in an alternate reality made Trump president.
To be sure, there is such a thing as actual fake news: made-up stories built to get Facebook traction before they can be debunked. But that’s not what’s really going on here.
What the left is trying to do is designate anything outside its ideological bubble as suspect on its face.
In October, President Obama complained that we need a “curating function” to deal with the “wild-wild-west-of-information flow.” Who would be doing this “curating” is unclear — but we can guess: “Obviously,” Noah Feldman writes at Bloomberg View, “it would be better if the market would fix the problem on its own . . . But if they can’t reliably do it — and that seems possible, since algorithms aren’t (yet) fact-checkers — there might be a need for the state to step in.”
Liberals just can’t abide competing points of view
By Kelly Riddell – The Washington Times – Thursday, November 24, 2016
ANALYSIS/OPINION:
What worries me the most about fake news, isn’t that it’s fake, it’s that it’s being used by the left to try to silence opposing views.
Take for example a story reported by the Los Angeles Times that included a professor who put together a Google document of “false, misleading, clickbait-y and satirical ‘news sources’” to help people “cleanse their newsfeeds of misinformation.”
The only problem with the list, was it included real news sites of which the professor simply didn’t agree. Conservative blogs, including Red State and The Blaze, were on the list, as was more centrist, but GOP-leaning Independent Journal Review (IJR). None of those sites are fake — they often just peddle in the real news purposely not covered by the mainstream media.
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2016/nov/24/using-fake-news-against-opposing-views/