According to Facebook’s investigation, the company has “interfered” in U.S. elections at least 39 times since 2008. Media Research Center.
Last month, researchers at MRC Free Speech America found that Google had “interfered” in U.S. elections 41 times over the past 16 years. The team then turned to Facebook and came to the following conclusion: Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg He seems to believe in free speech, but his company’s actions prove otherwise.
“Like Google, Facebook has an extensive history of interfering in U.S. elections. But it’s not entirely fair to compare the two companies. Part of Mark Zuckerberg believes in free speech. Google management clearly doesn’t. But no matter what Mr. Zuckerberg says, Facebook doesn’t.” “It’s led to a massive amount of censorship that always seems to target the same side of the political spectrum, and we believe it needs to stop,” said Brent Bozell, founder and president of the Media Research Center. told FOX News Digital.
Media Research Center announces that Google has “interfered” in elections 41 times in the past 16 years
The Media Research Center said that while Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg appears to believe in free speech, the company’s actions prove otherwise. (Alex Wong/Getty Images)
Dan Schneider, vice president of MRC Free Speech America, which conducted the survey, and editor Gabriela Parizeau wrote a 10,000-word breakdown of the survey results.
“Zuckerberg and his company have a complicated relationship with free speech. Meta’s CEO has repeatedly spoken decisively in support of free speech, denouncing fact-checking, Big Tech election interference, and political censorship.” and yet his platform participates in all three,” Schneider and Parizeau wrote.
“Meta (currently Facebook’s parent company) has always been caught between the left’s insistence on protecting the internet from so-called misinformation at all costs, and the right’s appeasement of freedom. “It seems like there is a way of speech as the basis of representative democracy,” they continued, before going into examples.
MRC Free Speech America said Facebook has “censored” 2024 presidential candidates and 2022 Senate and Congressional candidates, including Robert F. Kennedy Jr. According to the MRC, Facebook “deleted the account of Virginia gubernatorial candidate Amanda Chase” in 2021, “intensified its censorship regime with a particular focus on Donald Trump” in 2020, and “intensified its censorship regime with a particular focus on Donald Trump.” “We stopped political advertising a week ago.”
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Conservatives have long argued that Facebook and other social media platforms support liberal ideology. (Cyberguy.com)
Schneider and Parizeau wrote that Facebook’s “notorious censorship” of then-President Trump included multiple campaign ads and numerous anti-Biden-Harris ads ahead of Election Day.
According to the MRC, Facebook also “censored various pro-life candidates” in 2016, including Marsha Blackburn (R-Tenn.), and “censored numerous pro-Trump pages and pro-Bernie Trump pages” in 2016. Sanders Group” was suspended.
“It also blacklisted popular conservatives like Ted Cruz while artificially elevating liberal news in the Trending News section,” Schneider and Parizeau wrote.
According to the MRC, Facebook suspended Veterans PAC in 2012 over a meme that drew attention to the Benghazi attack, concluding that it benefited then-President Obama.
“On at least three occasions, Facebook and Zuckerberg expressed support for free speech online, but after these comments, Big Tech’s platforms went in the opposite direction,” Schneider and Parizeau wrote. , pointed out that the powerful Zuckerberg claimed in 2019: “Freedom of expression” should take precedence over “political results.”
“But after a series of so-called ‘civil rights’ audits conducted by the left, COO Sheryl Sandberg praised the left’s recommendations and promised to ‘further implement their recommendations,’ and to actually do it.” We did so,” Schneider and Parizeau wrote.
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According to an investigation by the Media Research Center, Facebook has “interfered” in U.S. elections at least 39 times since 2008. (Kurt “Cyber Guy” Knutson)
MRC Free Speech America made recommendations to combat election interference. Conservative watchdog groups say House Speaker Johnson should “instruct relevant committees and committee chairs to investigate Facebook’s interference in elections,” and “The Legislature must ensure that Big Tech companies cannot engage in viewpoint discrimination.” “The state attorney general and secretary of state should take action.” Take appropriate steps to enforce state election laws in connection with Facebook’s election interference. ”
The group also urged Facebook to establish a “bipartisan Blue Ribbon Commission” to address the issues of election interference and censorship outlined in the report “in the spirit of openness and transparency.” “I will.”
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“Facebook was just as bad as Google in the 2020 presidential election. There are some signs that Facebook may back away from its large-scale censorship efforts, as Google’s election interference is currently on the rise. , it would be a welcome change if Facebook really follows through on the CEO’s vision of moving the company out of the election business,” Schneider told Fox News Digital.
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