Civil rights group accuses Facebook of racist, anti-Semitic smear campaign

[DonViejo]

Source: The Hill



BY HARPER NEIDIG - 11/15/18 09:52 AM EST

A civil rights group that a PR firm working for Facebook reportedly tried to tie to the billionaire financier George Soros accused the social media company on Thursday of trafficking in racist and anti-Semitic “extremist far-right conspiracy theories.”

Rashad Robinson, the president of Color of Change, blasted Facebook following a New York Times report that detailed how a group hired by Facebook had urged reporters to look into any financial ties between the civil rights group and Soros.

“Facebook's response to our campaign, which challenged them to improve their platform and create safe conditions for Black people and other marginalized groups, was to fan the flames of anti-Semitism,” Robinson said in a statement.

“By suggesting to reporters that Color Of Change is acting as the puppet of Mr. Soros merely because he is one of our many funders, they have given oxygen to the worst anti-Semitic conspiracy theories of the white nationalist Trump base.”

Read more: https://thehill.com/policy/technology/416879-civil-rights-group-accuses-facebook-of-racist-anti-semitic-smear-campaign

[WA-03 Democrat]

1. Funny how they all share

The KGB playbook when caught.

Trump, Repukicans and the tech oligarchs. What are the odds? Hey! That’s our Putin!

I killed my my account election night 2016. If only there were some liberals or progressives in the Bay Area.
Maybe they could find the Fakebook hq and have a sit-in in there parking lot. That parking lot would be so easy to fill with cars and people. You can look at it with google earth.

There should be regulations on companies that harvest your personal data and sell your privacy for profit.