Meta employees were recorded on hidden camera admitting that Facebook censors pro-Trump posts and disproportionately targets conservatives with “fact checks” over posts the tech giant claims are “misinformation.” According to a report issued on Thursday by journalist James O’Keefe of OMG Media, three Meta employees, including a software engineer, data scientist, and machine learning engineer, believe that the company is biased toward Republicans.
Matthew Fowler, a Meta software engineer, told one of O’Keefe’s honeypots on a fake date that when they see alleged pro-Trump disinformation “We’ll investigative, and then it goes just up to another team to take [the post] down.” He said the majority of the disinformation his team observes is from conservatives. Fowler clarified that Meta’s disinformation investigations are dependent on mainstream media for their verification process, stating, “The news is going to do their job, and then based on what the outlets say…you have to trust that.”
BREAKING: Second Round of Meta Engineers Reveal Censorship Practices: “Pro-Trump” Posts “Go Just Up to Another Team to Take It Down”
“Usually the disinformation we saw was pro-Trump… We’ll investigate, and then it goes just up to another team to take it [the post] down,”… pic.twitter.com/EJ6DnXjkFk
— James O’Keefe (@JamesOKeefeIII) October 17, 2024
Meta machine learning engineer Plamen Dzhelepov admitted to an OMG journalist that Facebook is outwardly biased toward conservative voters, and takes measures to censor their free speech rights through demoting posts. The employee claimed that “Meta has the right to suppress anything” and that the company mainly targets “crazy conspiracy right-wing people,” according to the report. “It’s either censored or it says a thing, where it says, ‘This is disinformation, it’s probably fake’ under the post,” he said, explaining how the process works.
Additionally, Michael Zoorob, a Meta data scientist, detailed the social media company’s fact-checking process, admitting that “the vast majority of what fact-checkers label as false is shared by conservatives.” When asked about Meta censoring the New York Post’s Hunter Biden Laptop story at the direction of the FBI, Zoorob explained, “We just downranked it,” which made the post less visible in users’ feeds,” as per the report.
In a separate report released Wednesday by OMG Media, a senior Meta software engineer revealed that the company demotes posts critical of Vice President Kamala Harris, the Democratic presidential nominee, and boosts posts favorable to Democrats.
Meta has not yet publicly commented on the allegations made by their employees.
How many more Zuckerberg lies must we endure? He lied to Congress…obviously. Where are the charges? Why is Steve Bannon in prison, while this megalomaniac is free to use his platform to deceive…again?
Is he above the law?