Report: Facebook Exempts ‘Whitelisted’ Elite Users from Platform Rules
Facebook maintains a whitelist of elite users that are subject to less stringent rules than others using the platform, according to leaked materials provided to the Wall Street Journal.
Despite the company claiming in public that its rules apply equally to all users, the Journal reports that a set of privileged users including journalists, politicians, and celebrities are allowed to post rule-violating material “pending Facebook employee reviews that never come,” while others are “whitelisted” — immune from Facebook enforcement actions altogether.
Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg is applauded as he delivers the opening keynote introducing new Facebook, Messenger, WhatsApp, and Instagram privacy features at the Facebook F8 Conference at McEnery Convention Center in San Jose, California on April 30, 2019. – Got a crush on another Facebook user? The social network will help you connect, as part of a revamp unveiled Tuesday that aims to foster real-world relationships and make the platform a more intimate place for small groups of friends. (Photo by Amy Osborne / AFP)
The program is reportedly known internally as Crosscheck, or “XCheck.” According to the documents obtained by the Journal, it includes at least 5.8 million users, including “most government officials” — but, frequently, not the challengers to their incumbent status.
Via the Wall Street Journal:
At times, the documents show, XCheck has protected public figures whose posts contain harassment or incitement to violence, violations that would typically lead to sanctions for regular users. In 2019, it allowed international soccer star Neymar to show nude photos of a woman, who had accused him of rape, to tens of millions of his fans before the content was removed by Facebook.
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Despite attempts to rein it in, XCheck grew to include at least 5.8 million users in 2020, documents show. In its struggle to accurately moderate a torrent of content and avoid negative attention, Facebook created invisible elite tiers within the social network.
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While the program included most government officials, it didn’t include all candidates for public office, at times effectively granting incumbents in elections an advantage over challengers. The discrepancy was most prevalent in state and local races, the documents show, and employees worried Facebook could be subject to accusations of favoritism.
In a comment to the Journal, Facebook spokesman Andy Stone said that in both federal and nonfederal races, the company made an effort to ensure that “challengers as well as incumbents were included in the program.” Yet Facebook has banned numerous high-profile political candidates, including Laura Loomer in the U.S. and Tommy Robinson in the UK.
While acknowledging that criticism of XCheck was fair, Stone said the system “was designed for an important reason: to create an additional step so we can accurately enforce policies on content that could require more understanding.”
Allum Bokhari is the senior technology correspondent at Breitbart News. He is the author of #DELETED: Big Tech’s Battle to Erase the Trump Movement and Steal The Election.
Radical Group Preparing to Harass Justice Kavanaugh
Fearmongering over the Supreme Court’s limited decision on Texas’ anti-abortion law.
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ShutDownDC is a far-left group that has adopted the confrontational tactics of the radicals’ hero, Saul Alinsky.
True to form, ShutDownDC has just announced its intention to target Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh with a disruptive protest at his home on September 13th. The reason ShutDownDC gives for invading the privacy of Justice Kavanaugh and his family is that he voted as part of the 5-4 majority to allow Texas’s new anti-abortion law to go into effect for the time being. Texas’s law bans abortion when there is a fetal heartbeat, which typically occurs approximately six weeks into a pregnancy.
The Supreme Court majority went out of their way to make clear that they were not ruling on the merits of the Texas statute. All these justices did was to reject, on purely procedural grounds, an emergency application for an injunction to block Texas’s new law from going into effect. They explicitly left open the question of whether Texas’s law is constitutional.
"Brett Kavanaugh: You're going to hear from us directly," ShutDownDC warned on Facebook. The radicals demanded that Justice Kavanaugh "keep your oppressive" ideology "out of our bodies."
Spreading hysteria to rile up the “masses” is the left’s trademark. ShutDownDC is no exception. The group has joined its comrades in raising the specter that the Supreme Court’s decision “effectively overturned the right to an abortion.”
Joining the reckless fearmongering, Democratic Socialist Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (AOC) tweeted, “Republicans promised to overturn Roe v Wade, and they have.”
The left’s claim that the Supreme Court has abolished the constitutional right to an abortion by overturning Roe v. Wade is a blatant lie.
The majority made no mention of Roe v. Wade, much less indicate that they were prepared to overrule the precedent that created a constitutional right to abortion. To the contrary, the majority said that “we stress that we do not purport to resolve definitively any jurisdictional or substantive claim in the applicants’ lawsuit. In particular, this order is not based on any conclusion about the constitutionality of Texas’s law, and in no way limits other procedurally proper challenges to the Texas law, including in Texas state courts.”
In targeting Justice Kavanaugh, the radical leftists are continuing their campaign to delegitimize him, a campaign which started during his Senate confirmation hearing.
"By personally threatening Justice Kavanaugh and his family, the Left is resorting to its favorite tactic: intimidating the Court," said Judicial Crisis Network President Carrie Severino, who helped advance Justice Kavanaugh's Senate confirmation. Ms. Severino added that "the Left's objective is always to bully the Court into delivering the liberal policies that left-wing dark money groups demand."
AOC and other leftists want to remake the Supreme Court in their own image by packing the Court with more leftist justices. To accomplish this objective, they are demanding the elimination of the Senate filibuster.
Far-left radicals go even further with their tactics of intimidation. One of ShutDownDC’s organizing principles is to engage in “disruptive direct action” as part of its effort to “move forward to dismantle the interlocking systems of oppression that have plagued this land for centuries.”
ShutDownDC is part of a coalition with Black Lives Matter DC and All Out DC, a local Antifa group. The latter’s motto is “burn down the American plantation.” ShutDownDC and its coalition partners claim to be anti-fascists while engaging, however, in fascist tactics to hound anyone who gets in the way of their radical agenda.
In 2019, ShutDownDC lived up to its name by literally shutting down the nation’s capital to protest against climate change. All they accomplished was to inconvenience ordinary Americans trying to go about their business. They even interfered with people trying to get to a hospital. The organizers admitted awareness of the “massive disruption to people who bear little responsibility for the climate catastrophe we are facing.” However, the organizers said that the disruption to such people’s lives was worth it because “we will also cause massive disruption for politicians, huge corporations and the lobbyists who control our government.”
Last January, Senator Josh Hawley was the object of ShutDownDC’s wrath. Senator Hawley tweeted at the time: “Tonight while I was in Missouri, Antifa scumbags came to our place in DC and threatened my wife and newborn daughter, who can’t travel. They screamed threats, vandalized, and tried to pound open our door. Let me be clear: My family & I will not be intimidated by leftwing violence.”
Last month, ShutDownDC warned those people whom the radical group accused of “killing the earth” that “We know where to find you… and we’re coming for you.”
Not content with protesting peacefully in front of the Supreme Court, these same radicals are now threatening to harass Justice Kavanaugh and his family at their home.
It’s time to shut down the fascist tactics of ShutDownDC and its far left Black Lives Matter and Antifa coalition partners.
The Greatest Existential Threat to America
Black Lives Matter’s ignorant racist attacks on America’s Founding.
David Horowitz is the author of The Enemy Within: How A Totalitarian Movement Is Destroying America, and the forthcoming (October 5th) I Can’t Breathe: How A Racial Hoax is Killing America.
Our Secretary of Defense, Lloyd Austin - a leader who presided over the worst, most incompetent, most humilitating military defeat in the history of our nation - is black. Of course, he’s black. He was appointed by Biden to display the wonderful diversity of the most progressive president in history. He wasn’t chosen because he was a brilliant military leader (obviously). He was chosen because he was a political hack ready and willing to embrace even the most suicidal left-wing policies. (Note: Left-wing policies are by their very nature suicidal because the defining characteristic of the left is that it hates America and wants to “dismantle” it and replace it with the left-wing fantasy of a socially just future.)
In February 2021 - with the deadline for withdrawal in Afghanistan a bare three months away - General Austin was not ordering a military alert to prepare for what was going to be a major humanitarian and military reckoning. Instead, he was ordering a military “stand down” to indoctrinate all America’s troops in Black Lives Matter hate white people and hate America propaganda.
In passing may I note that 85% of the troops who gave their lives in Afghanistan to protect the American homeland and to give the Afghan people and especially women the right to breathe free – were white. So much for real diversity.
Diversity Training as it is practiced, is a racist scam whose promoters have the hateful mentality and low I.Q. level of the Jim Crow bubbas of the past. Their goal is to demonize white Americans and (white) America, and to promote an anti-American agenda that strikes at the heart of a soldier’s military oath to defend the Constitution and the nation it created.
Here is a dose of the beliefs that our soldiers were being indoctrinated in during the two-month stand down during the run-up to the Afghanistan debacle:
“that the country was founded by racists, that the country has always been racist,
“that the Constitution’s ratification codified white supremacy as the law of the land,
“that whites are inherently racists (whether they realize it or not), and that the country must transform and become something altogether different than what it was and is.”
We know this is the diversity training curriculum because a courageous patriot, former Lt. Colonel Matt Lohmeier - a commander in the Space Force and head of a unit tasked with identifying ballistic missile launches - experienced it first-hand. Lohmeier had the personal courage and love of country to tell the non-military world about the rot that is eating away the confidence and patriotic dedication of the military. He did so in a learned, self-published book called Irresistible Revolution from which this passage comes.
For this gesture of patriotism and dissent, the Space Force removed Lohmeier from his command and then kicked him out of the military altogether. They then stripped him of his pension, earned during fifteen years in the armed services. From his testimony we know that to criticize the Marxist, insurrectionists and pathological liars of Black Lives Matter or their poisonous doctrines is forbidden in today’s military, presided over by diversity commander-in-chief Lloyd Austin.
What is the impact of these doctrines on the troops? How do you take an oath to defend a Constitution that institutionalizes “white supremacy”?
Lohmeier tells you. “[It] is wrecking young people’s motivation to serve in the US military, regardless of their political leanings. Many of those who believe these false narratives are finding their motivation for continued service shattered. Many of those appalled by the accusations are likewise demotivated. These narratives are teeing up a lose-lose scenario for the uniformed services and for the American people. I know because I am hearing about it all the time from people at my own base and elsewhere.”
In October 2020, Lohmeier attended a discussion group, set up as part of the military’s indoctrination program. It was led by a black female officer who assigned a book by Ijeomo Oluo called, So You Want to Talk About Race. Oluo is a Nigerian and a Black Lives Matter star. Her book has been widely read and praised. Here is its wisdom as Lohmeier reports it: “The book teaches that the United States is ‘a white supremacist society’ that must be ‘dismantled piece by piece.’ It teaches that speech that makes ‘people of color feel unsafe’ is ‘an act of violence,’ but that if whites are uncomfortable, ‘do not allow [them] to be treated as if harm has been done to them.’” Could Oluo’s mind-numbing racism be any clearer?
This racist garbage would be of little consequence if it were not the dominant theme in America’s culture today, promoted by the White House, the popular culture itself, and corporate giants like Google and Apple who have instituted the same racist indoctrination programs for their employees and everyone within their reach – which is everyone.
What makes these doctrines sinister is that the Marxists who devised them always had the goal of dismantling America in the process. Their success in Afghanistan should be a code blue warning to every American who loves their country.
America’s current corrupt leaders are always talking about “the existential threat to America.” And their answer is always the same “white supremacist domestic terrorists.” And where are they exactly? Our leaders deploy this fiction for one reason, and one reason alone: to empower their witch-hunts against patriots and conservatives like Matthew Lohmeier who is a prime victim.
But any patriotic American not seduced by the Black Lives Matters’ lies knows that the opposite is the truth. Anti-white racism, and ignorant attacks on the American founding – these constitute the greatest existential threat to America. The fact that Black Lives Matter’s racist fictions make up the crippling doctrine of our military leaders should awaken everyone to the menace we face. There never has been a greater threat to our patrimony and freedom since the darkest days of the Civil War.
60 Shot During Weekend in Mayor Lori Lightfoot’s Chicago
Sixty people were shot, seven of them fatally, over the weekend in Mayor Lori Lightfoot’s (D) Chicago.
Breitbart News noted that more than 30 were shot Friday into Saturday night alone in Chicago, and three of those shooting victims succumbed to their wounds:
Police tape marks off a Chicago street as officers investigate the scene of a fatal shooting (AP Photo/Teresa Crawford).
By Monday morning, the number of shooting victims had doubled, with ABC 7/Chicago Sun-Times reporting 60 shooting victims and seven shooting fatalities.
The shooting fatalities included a 12-year-old boy who was discovered unresponsive Saturday morning with a gunshot wound to the head.
The boy was found at approximately 10:30 a.m. “in the 8000-block of South Bennett Avenue” and pronounced dead at the scene.
Another weekend shooting fatality was a 54-year-old man found deceased inside a vehicle Sunday morning with multiple gunshot wounds. His body was in a vehicle near “the 2700-block of West Flournoy Street.”
The weekend’s first fatality was an unidentified male who was shot Friday evening at about 5:30 p.m. He was outside “in the 7200-block of South Yale Avenue” when someone opened fire, striking him in the armpit and elsewhere, killing him.
HeyJackass.com lists the number of Chicago shooting victims at 192 so far in September, noting that 103 people were shot in Chicago last week alone.
AWR Hawkins is an award-winning Second Amendment columnist for Breitbart News and the writer/curator of Down Range with AWR Hawkins, a weekly newsletter focused on all things Second Amendment, also for Breitbart News. He is the political analyst for Armed American Radio. Follow him on Instagram: @awr_hawkins. Reach him at awrhawkins@breitbart.com. You can sign up to get Down Range at breitbart.com/downrange.
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