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Comedian Steven Crowder would like a word</h1><h2 class="dn-subheadline">The conservative pundit is suing Facebook even as NYU report says claims of censorship are unfounded</h2><div class="published-updated"><time dateTime="2021-02-03T05:00:00Z" class="date-published date-published--iso d-block d-md-inline-block">Published: Feb 2, 2021, 10:00 p.m. MST</time></div><div class="dn-article-byline"><div class="d-md-flex py-3 justify-content-between"><div class="d-flex"><div class="byline-image-container d-flex"><div style="z-index:1;margin-left:0"><a href="/authors/jennifer-graham/"><div class="d-flex image-wrapper"><div class="image-cropper"><img data-chromatic="ignore" alt="Jennifer Graham" style="aspect-ratio:1.00" class="c-image" loading="lazy" src="https://www.deseret.com/resizer/v2/https%3A%2F%2Fauthor-service-images-prod-us-east-1.publishing.aws.arc.pub%2Fdeseretnews%2F21c26c33-4f5a-48af-9905-09a197c2fdd1.png?auth=5e7ee07ae5a418a5f4b64929a81bdaad01208a646016bc9f8e1508a9d7f84ebf&focal=0%2C0&width=96&height=96" srcSet="https://www.deseret.com/resizer/v2/https%3A%2F%2Fauthor-service-images-prod-us-east-1.publishing.aws.arc.pub%2Fdeseretnews%2F21c26c33-4f5a-48af-9905-09a197c2fdd1.png?auth=5e7ee07ae5a418a5f4b64929a81bdaad01208a646016bc9f8e1508a9d7f84ebf&focal=0%2C0&width=192&height=192 2x" width="96" height="96"/></div></div></a></div></div><div class="byline-details align-self-center ps-2"><div class="byline-names mb-0">By <a href="/authors/jennifer-graham/">Jennifer Graham</a></div><div class="byline-description">Jennifer is the Ideas and Culture editor and author of the Right to the Point newsletter. She has more than 30 years of experience as a journalist and writes from Boston.</div></div></div></div></div><div class="share-buttons pe-0"><div class="share-comments share-cell"><div class="share-button-container"><div class="share-button"><img class="share-icon centered"/><i class="fa-solid fa-circle share-background" aria-hidden="true"></i></div><div class="share-label">View Comments</div></div></div><div class="share-popover share-cell"><div class="share-popover-container"><div class="share-button-container"><div class="share-button"><img class="share-icon centered"/><i class="fa-solid fa-circle share-background" aria-hidden="true"></i></div><div class="share-label">Share</div></div></div></div></div><div class="dn-article-body mt-4"><p class="c-paragraph">Conservative pundit Steven Crowder punched deep into the debate over social media and censorship this week with the <a href="https://www.louderwithcrowder.com/louder-with-crowder-facebook-suit">announcement</a> that he is suing Facebook for what he believes are unfair and secretive policies.</p><p class="c-paragraph">But the move comes as a new report was published saying that claims of social media bias against conservatives is disinformation, “a falsehood with no reliable evidence to support it.”</p><p class="c-paragraph">The <a href="https://bhr.stern.nyu.edu/bias-report-release-page">report</a>, issued by New York University’s Stern Center for Business and Human Rights, dismisses accusations by former President Donald Trump and Utah Republican Sen. Mike Lee, among others, that social media giants deliberately suppress conservative voices. But it acknowledges that “millions of everyday people sincerely believe it.” </p><p class="c-paragraph">The authors make four recommendations for social media companies and three for the administration of President Joe Biden, suggesting that more disclosure about how content decisions are made would help to calm the raging debate.</p><p class="c-paragraph">“The failure to figure out a way to be more transparent on the companies’ part is a big part of the reason why it has left the door open to arguments about censorship of conservatives,” said Paul M. Barrett, deputy director of the Stern Center and co-author of the report.</p><p class="c-paragraph">That part of the report is a point of agreement between Stern and his co-author, J. Grant Sims, and conservatives who will object to its title: “False Accusation: The Unfounded Claim That Social Media Companies Censor Conservatives.”</p><p class="c-paragraph">Other recommendations — including the establishment of a new regulatory agency and “more vigorous” moderation of influential accounts — will also likely not be embraced by conservatives.</p><p class="c-paragraph">“This was written by someone who in another life worked for Pravda,” said Dan Gainor, vice president at the conservative Media Research Center, which runs the website <a href="https://censortrack.org/">CensorTrack</a>.</p><p class="c-paragraph">The Stern Center report and Crowder’s lawsuit come on the heels of a decision by Facebook’s new Oversight Board to <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2021/01/28/facebook-oversight-board-cases/">overturn</a> four of the first five cases on which it was asked to rule. The company established the board to serve as an independent court for challenges to its content moderation decisions, with Facebook CEO and founder Mark Zuckerberg saying, “Facebook should not make so many important decisions about free expression and safety on our own.”</p><div class="dn-article-body__image-wrapper" data-width="2400" data-height="1600"><figure class="c-media-item dn-article-body__image"><img data-chromatic="ignore" style="aspect-ratio:1.50;background-color:#F3F1F0;cursor:pointer" class="c-image" loading="lazy" src="https://www.deseret.com/resizer/v2/XLGHFORSFO7XCOTRSL3EPSS3XM.jpg?auth=7c7d25e4e6c06b8e33937b5520469a1acbca30e61fb9277a049601ff1fd89d31&focal=1200%2C800&width=800&height=533" srcSet="https://www.deseret.com/resizer/v2/XLGHFORSFO7XCOTRSL3EPSS3XM.jpg?auth=7c7d25e4e6c06b8e33937b5520469a1acbca30e61fb9277a049601ff1fd89d31&focal=1200%2C800&width=1600&height=1066 2x" width="800" height="533"/><figcaption class="c-media-item__fig-caption"><span class="c-media-item__caption">Mark Zuckerberg, founder and CEO of Facebook, speaks at the Silicon Slopes Tech Summit at the Salt Palace Convention Center in Salt Lake City on Friday, Jan. 31, 2020. </span><span class="c-media-item__credit">| Scott G Winterton, Deseret News </span></figcaption></figure></div><p class="c-paragraph">Zuckerberg also recently said Facebook would <a href="https://www.politico.com/news/2021/01/27/zuckerberg-facebook-political-groups-463305">no longer recommend</a> political groups to its users, describing the move as “a continuation of work we’ve been doing for a while to turn down the temperature and discourage divisive conversations.”</p><p class="c-paragraph">Will Crowder’s lawsuit and the new report help in that effort or make things worse?</p><div class="dn-article-body__related-story"><div class="dn-article-body__related-story-title">Related</div><div class="dn-article-body__related-story-item"><a href="/indepth/2020/12/4/22153744/facebook-censorship-mark-zuckerberg-social-media-hate-speech-online-violence/" target="_blank">Facebook removed these posts. Would you?</a></div></div><div class="dn-article-body__related-story dn-article-body__related-story-last"><div class="dn-article-body__related-story-item"><a href="/indepth/2020/10/15/21409131/conservatives-facebook-bias-section-230-mark-zuckerberg-tucker-carlson-media-trump-hunter-biden/" target="_blank">Facebook, bias and the battle over conservative and liberal content on social media</a></div></div><h3 id="Dangerous-strategy" class="dn-article-body__h3">Dangerous strategy?</h3><p class="c-paragraph">Crowder, a comedian who has has more than 5 million subscribers to his <a href="https://www.youtube.com/StevenCrowder">YouTube channel</a>, has a history of edgy content, and for a year, he was “demonetized” by YouTube after he was accused of homophobic language. Crowder wasn’t banned from the video-sharing platform, but wasn’t able to run ads on YouTube, which is owned by Google, until the suspension was lifted in August 2020.</p><p class="c-paragraph">He is among conservative pundits who believe that Facebook and Twitter proved bias against conservative voices when they restricted distribution of a New York Post article on Hunter Biden, the president’s son, in the weeks leading up to the 2020 presidential election. “Big Tech is trying to steal an election,” Crowder tweeted in October.</p><p class="c-paragraph">In announcing the lawsuit on his website this week, Crowder, who is also a personality on Glenn Beck’s BlazeTV, said, “We need Facebook to stop throttling pages and content and to stop favoring certain outlets over others. In a word, stop acting like a publisher or just admit that they are one.” He said he is seeking injunctive relief and monetary damages in U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California, charging unfair competition and false advertising by the company.</p><p class="c-paragraph">“Facebook lured consumers and creators to spend money and provide data and views under the promise of not engaging in political, racial or religious bias in enforcing their policies, but they have done so both expressly and secretively, and hence, the suit,” Crowder <a href="https://www.louderwithcrowder.com/louder-with-crowder-facebook-suit">said</a> on his website Monday.</p><p class="c-paragraph">Barrett, co-author of the Stern Center report, said that he hasn’t seen the lawsuit, but he expects it’s a “political gesture.” In fact, he believes that much of the debate over censorship is political posturing, which has led to widespread belief among ordinary Americans that social media censorship is rampant, although the NYU report says there is no evidence for that argument.</p><p class="c-paragraph">And Barrett is concerned that the conversation over social media censorship has wider implications.</p><p class="c-paragraph">“The argument that the social media companies systematically censor conservatives is part of a broader campaign taking shape right now on Fox News and talk radio and online to try to convince people who are loyal to former President Donald Trump that they’re being silenced and excluded from American life across the board, not just in social media,” Barrett said. </p><p class="c-paragraph">“I think this is a very dangerous and unfortunate strategy that is going to sharply exacerbate the polarization that already characterizes our society.”</p><p class="c-paragraph">But Gainor, of the Media Research Center, a hard-right advocacy group founded by Brent Bozell, notes that the Stern Center is run by a former Obama administration official, Michael Posner, and says that report is another defense of social media by people with a liberal agenda.</p><p class="c-paragraph">“The foundation of everything in this report is a liberal outlook of the world. They think conservative outlets are wrong, and so there’s no bias if you censor them, if you restrict them,” Gainor said.</p><p class="c-paragraph">That said, there are parts of the report with which these sharply divided sides can agree, Gainor said, specifically the call for more transparency.</p><div class="dn-article-body__related-story"><div class="dn-article-body__related-story-title">Related</div><div class="dn-article-body__related-story-item"><a href="/indepth/2020/10/15/21409131/conservatives-facebook-bias-section-230-mark-zuckerberg-tucker-carlson-media-trump-hunter-biden/" target="_blank">Facebook, bias and the battle over conservative and liberal content on social media</a></div></div><div class="dn-article-body__related-story dn-article-body__related-story-last"><div class="dn-article-body__related-story-item"><a href="/u-s-world/2021/2/2/22262414/facebook-ceo-mark-zuckerberg-politics-platform/" target="_blank">Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg says he wants to ‘reduce the amount of politics’ on the social network</a></div></div><h3 id="Sharing-the-secrets" class="dn-article-body__h3">Sharing the secrets</h3><p class="c-paragraph">The NYU report says that social media platforms should give an “easily understood explanation” when they restrict a post or sanction an account, and offer a means of appeal.</p><p class="c-paragraph">“Greater transparency — such as that which Twitter and Facebook offered when they took action against former President Trump in January — would help to defuse claims of political bias, while clarifying the boundaries of acceptable user conduct,” the report said.</p><p class="c-paragraph">Its other recommendations for social media companies are to offer users a choice of content moderation algorithms, release more data for researchers, and more controversially, undertake “more vigorous, targeted human moderation of influential accounts.”</p><div class="comments-bubble-container"><div class="comments-bubble"><div class="comments-bubble-lines"><div class="comments-bubble-line"></div><div class="comments-bubble-line"></div><div class="comments-bubble-line"></div></div></div><div class="comments-text view-comments">View Comments</div></div><p class="c-paragraph">It offers three recommendations for the Biden administration, suggesting that it “pursue a constructive agenda” for social media companies, create a digital regulatory agency and work with Congress to update Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act, the regulation that gives social-media companies immunity from being sued over what is published on their platforms.</p><p class="c-paragraph">In the report, the authors acknowledge, “There are no empirical studies that definitively assess the claim of anti-conservative bias.” Most arguments made against bias are based on observations that conservative voices routinely dominate rankings of post engagement on Facebook and Twitter.</p><p class="c-paragraph">Since it’s difficult to prove absence of bias, that’s another reason the authors call for greater transparency from Facebook and other social media companies, Barrett said. “Recommendations would help provide more data not only for the public in general, but also academic researchers,” he said.</p><p class="c-paragraph">“A lot of what the platforms do remains secret. We actually don’t know in the vast majority of cases why they’ve taken material down.”</p><div class="dn-article-body__image-wrapper" data-width="3000" data-height="2000"><figure class="c-media-item dn-article-body__image"><img data-chromatic="ignore" style="aspect-ratio:1.50;background-color:#F3F1F0;cursor:pointer" class="c-image" loading="lazy" src="https://www.deseret.com/resizer/v2/K3ZYI74KN6CNVCMYWRYRPW6KYM.jpg?auth=04ea879c501a9c5be8d7a3b2a4a5e3267ad678db7dff7ea40e38b6ad809ece5d&focal=1500%2C1000&width=800&height=533" srcSet="https://www.deseret.com/resizer/v2/K3ZYI74KN6CNVCMYWRYRPW6KYM.jpg?auth=04ea879c501a9c5be8d7a3b2a4a5e3267ad678db7dff7ea40e38b6ad809ece5d&focal=1500%2C1000&width=1600&height=1066 2x" width="800" height="533"/><figcaption class="c-media-item__fig-caption"><span class="c-media-item__caption">Steven Crowder speaks during his protest against Gov. Gretchen Whitmer at the Michigan state Capitol in Lansing, Mich., on Friday, Oct. 2, 2020. 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The user said that the ‘т.а.з.и.к.и’ are destroying churches and have no history. The user stated they are against ‘Azerbaijani aggression’ and vandalism.” ","type":"text"},{"_id":"RGOLLDLXGEPBDIZRO27A6TSMOM","additional_properties":{"dropcap":false,"endmark":false},"content":"<strong>Violation of policy on adult nudity and sexual activity</strong> — “A user in Brazil posted a picture to Instagram with a title in Portuguese indicating that it was to raise awareness of signs of breast cancer. Eight photographs within the picture showed breast cancer symptoms with corresponding explanations of the symptoms underneath. Five of the photographs included visible and uncovered female nipples. 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In the video and text, there is a description of an alleged scandal about the Agence Nationale de Sécurité du Médicament (the French agency responsible for regulating health products) purportedly refusing authorization for use of hydroxychloroquine and azithromycin against COVID-19, but authorizing promotional mail for Remdesivir. The user criticizes the lack of a health strategy in France and states that ‘(Didier) Raoult’s cure’ is being used elsewhere to save lives.”","type":"text"},{"_id":"RGOLLDLXGEPBDIZRO27A6TSMOM","additional_properties":{"dropcap":false,"endmark":false},"content":"<strong>Violation of policy on violence and incitement</strong> — “A user posted a photo in a Facebook group, depicting a man in leather armor holding a sheathed sword in his right hand. The photo has a text overlay in Hindi that discusses drawing a sword from its scabbard in response to ‘infidels’ criticizing the prophet. The photo includes a logo with the words ‘Indian Muslims’ in English. 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For example, Facebook employees were so unhappy with the company’s decision to let controversial posts from President Donald Trump stay up that they staged a <a href=\"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/06/01/technology/facebook-employee-protest-trump.html\">virtual walkout</a> in June.","type":"text"},{"_id":"E2DE7XCDSA73ZYB7TRM3DQFNIE","additional_properties":{"dropcap":false,"endmark":false},"content":"The company’s attempts to satisfy Americans on both sides of the political divide, including establishing a <a href=\"https://about.fb.com/news/2020/05/welcoming-the-oversight-board/\">global oversight board</a>, have done little to calm a volatile debate that rages most loudly among conservatives. Pew Research Center <a href=\"https://www.pewresearch.org/internet/2020/08/19/most-americans-think-social-media-sites-censor-political-viewpoints/\">reported</a> in August that 90% of Republicans believe it’s very or somewhat likely that social media companies censor views they don’t like, compared to 59% of Democrats.","type":"text"},{"_id":"E2DE7XCDSA73ZYB7TRM3DQFNIE","additional_properties":{"dropcap":false,"endmark":false},"content":"But social media observers note that charges of discrimination against conservatives are countered by a curious fact: The most read posts on Facebook each day are overwhelmingly from conservative sources.","type":"text"},{"_id":"E2DE7XCDSA73ZYB7TRM3DQFNIE","additional_properties":{"dropcap":false,"endmark":false},"content":"So why is the relationship between conservatives and Facebook so fraught, and what, if anything, can be done to fix it?","type":"text"},{"_id":"E2DE7XCDSA73ZYB7TRM3DQFNIE","referent":{"id":"https://twitter.com/FacebooksTop10/status/1316749969475268613","provider":"https://publish.twitter.com/oembed?url=","service":"oembed","type":"twitter"},"type":"reference","additional_properties":{"_do_not_inflate":true}},{"_id":"E2DE7XCDSA73ZYB7TRM3DQFNIE","content":"Drizzle to a downpour","level":4,"type":"header"},{"_id":"E2DE7XCDSA73ZYB7TRM3DQFNIE","additional_properties":{"dropcap":false,"endmark":false},"content":"Kevin Roose, a technology columnist for The New York Times, tracks Facebook’s 10 most popular posts each day and posts them on Twitter. On Wednesday, even as conservative lawmakers were tweeting about censorship, the top 10 on Facebook were from President Donald Trump, conservative commentator Don Bongino and Fox News.","type":"text"},{"_id":"E2DE7XCDSA73ZYB7TRM3DQFNIE","additional_properties":{"dropcap":false,"endmark":false},"content":"The domination of the platform by conservatives is normal, Roose says.","type":"text"},{"_id":"E2DE7XCDSA73ZYB7TRM3DQFNIE","additional_properties":{"dropcap":false,"endmark":false},"content":"“Most days, the leader board looks roughly the same: conservative post after conservative post, with the occasional liberal interloper,” he <a href=\"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/08/27/technology/what-if-facebook-is-the-real-silent-majority.html\">wrote</a> recently. Roose believes that the suspected “silent majority” of support for Trump is evident on Facebook, because what people “read, watch, and click on when nobody’s looking” is a better indicator of support than polls or interviews.","type":"text"},{"_id":"E2DE7XCDSA73ZYB7TRM3DQFNIE","additional_properties":{"dropcap":false,"endmark":false},"content":"“Pro-Trump political influencers have spent years building a well-oiled media machine that swarms around every major news story, creating a torrent of viral commentary that reliably drowns out both the mainstream media and the liberal opposition,” Roose wrote.","type":"text"},{"_id":"E2DE7XCDSA73ZYB7TRM3DQFNIE","additional_properties":{"dropcap":false,"endmark":false},"content":"Some of that content, however, is removed by Facebook. For example, last week Facebook said it <a href=\"https://apnews.com/article/virus-outbreak-donald-trump-business-arizona-d568f23c03faa70a753928433b283f3a?utm_source=Pew+Research+Center&utm_campaign=8236ff0554-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2020_10_09_01_25&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_3e953b9b70-8236ff0554-399907321\">shut down</a> 276 fake accounts that were promoting conservative positions. Facebook said the accounts did not belong to real people but were set up by an Arizona digital communications firm in violation of its <a href=\"https://www.facebook.com/communitystandards/integrity_authenticity\">community standards</a>. The social media giant has also recently cracked down on pages that promote the group <a href=\"https://www.deseret.com/indepth/2020/8/12/21353119/conspiracy-theory-qanon-link-connection-child-sex-trafficking-exploitation-social-media-advocacy/\">QAnon</a>.","type":"text"},{"_id":"E2DE7XCDSA73ZYB7TRM3DQFNIE","additional_properties":{"dropcap":false,"endmark":false},"content":"Steven Levy, editor at large for Wired magazine and author of “<a href=\"https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/551043/facebook-by-steven-levy/\">Facebook, the Inside Story,</a>” said the performance of conservative content on Facebook isn’t proof that the complaints about Facebook are wrong. But, he said, “it’s a data point that shows conservative content not only can circulate on Facebook, but that it circulates with more velocity generally than stuff from the left or stuff from the middle.”","type":"text"},{"_id":"E2DE7XCDSA73ZYB7TRM3DQFNIE","additional_properties":{"dropcap":false,"endmark":false},"content":"That doesn’t placate Dan Gainor, vice president of TechWatch at the Reston, Virginia-based Media Research Center, who believes that Facebook and other tech companies began to actively discriminate against conservatives after Trump’s election. Before the election, Gainor said, there were occasional complaints about bias; after the election, “it went from a drizzle to a downpour to the internet version of a hurricane.”","type":"text"},{"_id":"DD3WJ25FQQTVKXFBRL523MLLYY","additional_properties":{"dropcap":false,"endmark":false},"content":"“People discovered that conservatives were online, and they weren’t just online by 10s or 20s, they were online by tens of millions. And so everything that’s been done by the Big Tech companies since then has been an attempt to prevent 2016 from ever happening again,” Gainor said.","type":"text"},{"_id":"DD3WJ25FQQTVKXFBRL523MLLYY","additional_properties":{"dropcap":false,"endmark":false},"content":"Restricting the sharing of an article seen as damaging to the Biden campaign seems evidence to many conservatives, including talk-show host Mark Levin, that Facebook and Twitter are aligned with Democrats. Levin even said that the action amounted to “an in-kind contribution” to the Biden campaign. (By Thursday, the restrictions appeared to have been lifted; a reporter for the Deseret News was able to share the article on Facebook — and then delete it — without the post being flagged.)","type":"text"},{"_id":"DD3WJ25FQQTVKXFBRL523MLLYY","additional_properties":{"dropcap":false,"endmark":false},"content":"In a statement provided to the Deseret News, a Facebook spokesman said, “While many Republicans think we should take one course, many Democrats think we should do the exact opposite. We’ve faced criticism from Republicans for being biased against conservatives and Democrats for not taking more steps to restrict the exact same content. We have rules in place to protect the integrity of the election and free expression, and we will continue to apply them impartially.” ","type":"text"},{"_id":"DD3WJ25FQQTVKXFBRL523MLLYY","content":"<strong>Looking for proof</strong>","level":4,"type":"header"},{"_id":"DD3WJ25FQQTVKXFBRL523MLLYY","additional_properties":{"dropcap":false,"endmark":false},"content":"Proving bias on social media is difficult, Gainor said, but that doesn’t stop him from trying. He also runs a new website called <a href=\"http://CensorTrack.org\">CensorTrack.org</a> that publishes information on individuals and websites that claim they have been unfairly treated by social media.","type":"text"},{"_id":"DD3WJ25FQQTVKXFBRL523MLLYY","additional_properties":{"dropcap":false,"endmark":false},"content":"Cases currently listed on the site include the Catholic Speakers Organization, which says that Facebook has blocked ads for a livestream called “Election Truth Hour” and a Facebook video on California wildfires, by journalist John Stossel, labeled as misleading.","type":"text"},{"_id":"DD3WJ25FQQTVKXFBRL523MLLYY","additional_properties":{"dropcap":false,"endmark":false},"content":"Gainor says that bias is evident not only in what Facebook shuts down, but in what the company leaves up. He pointed to the company’s recent <a href=\"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/08/19/technology/facebook-qanon-groups-takedown.html\">crackdown</a> on QAnon, but said that Facebook has not been similarly tough on antifa. He also said the company would not intervene when someone posted South Carolina Republican Sen. Lindsey Graham’s home address and encouraged <a href=\"https://www.newsweek.com/protesters-gather-outside-lindsey-grahams-house-wake-him-over-push-replace-rbg-1533302\">protesters</a> to gather there last month.","type":"text"},{"_id":"DD3WJ25FQQTVKXFBRL523MLLYY","additional_properties":{"dropcap":false,"endmark":false},"content":"Rob Bluey, vice president for communications for the Heritage Foundation, said the conservative think tank and its news organization, The Daily Signal, have had problems with posts being flagged on Facebook and other forms of social media.","type":"text"},{"_id":"DD3WJ25FQQTVKXFBRL523MLLYY","additional_properties":{"dropcap":false,"endmark":false},"content":"“The problem is, can you document it? One of the things I think conservatives haven’t done well at is providing a comprehensive database of incidents,” he said.","type":"text"},{"_id":"DD3WJ25FQQTVKXFBRL523MLLYY","additional_properties":{"dropcap":false,"endmark":false},"content":"“I know there are complaints on the Left as well, but it seems to me, conservatives frequently find themselves in a position where they’re seeing their content removed or restricted, and it is concerning,” Bluey said.","type":"text"},{"_id":"DD3WJ25FQQTVKXFBRL523MLLYY","additional_properties":{"dropcap":false,"endmark":false},"content":"But Levy, of Wired magazine, said there is “no evidence whatsoever” that Facebook and other tech companies are writing code to sniff out conservative content so that it can be censored or limited. 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You don’t have to look any farther than the president himself. There are a tremendous number of conservatives having success on the platform. But I think there are times when they also encounter challenges.”","type":"text"},{"_id":"DD3WJ25FQQTVKXFBRL523MLLYY","additional_properties":{"dropcap":false,"endmark":false},"content":"He credits Facebook for meeting with conservatives and consulting them on policy changes. “They don’t always take our advice, but they do at least listen to what we have to say,” Bluey said.","type":"text"},{"_id":"DD3WJ25FQQTVKXFBRL523MLLYY","additional_properties":{"dropcap":false,"endmark":false},"content":"In fact, some Facebook employees have complained that conservatives are having too much say in the company, especially with the hiring of Joel Kaplan as Facebook’s vice president of global public policy. He is a former policy adviser and deputy chief of staff to President George W. Bush and is a friend of Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh. 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On Wednesday, even as conservative lawmakers were tweeting about censorship, the top 10 on Facebook were from President Donald Trump, conservative commentator Don Bongino and Fox News.","type":"text"},{"_id":"E2DE7XCDSA73ZYB7TRM3DQFNIE","additional_properties":{"dropcap":false,"endmark":false},"content":"The domination of the platform by conservatives is normal, Roose says.","type":"text"},{"_id":"E2DE7XCDSA73ZYB7TRM3DQFNIE","additional_properties":{"dropcap":false,"endmark":false},"content":"“Most days, the leader board looks roughly the same: conservative post after conservative post, with the occasional liberal interloper,” he <a href=\"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/08/27/technology/what-if-facebook-is-the-real-silent-majority.html\">wrote</a> recently. Roose believes that the suspected “silent majority” of support for Trump is evident on Facebook, because what people “read, watch, and click on when nobody’s looking” is a better indicator of support than polls or interviews.","type":"text"},{"_id":"E2DE7XCDSA73ZYB7TRM3DQFNIE","additional_properties":{"dropcap":false,"endmark":false},"content":"“Pro-Trump political influencers have spent years building a well-oiled media machine that swarms around every major news story, creating a torrent of viral commentary that reliably drowns out both the mainstream media and the liberal opposition,” Roose wrote.","type":"text"},{"_id":"E2DE7XCDSA73ZYB7TRM3DQFNIE","additional_properties":{"dropcap":false,"endmark":false},"content":"Some of that content, however, is removed by Facebook. For example, last week Facebook said it <a href=\"https://apnews.com/article/virus-outbreak-donald-trump-business-arizona-d568f23c03faa70a753928433b283f3a?utm_source=Pew+Research+Center&utm_campaign=8236ff0554-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2020_10_09_01_25&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_3e953b9b70-8236ff0554-399907321\">shut down</a> 276 fake accounts that were promoting conservative positions. Facebook said the accounts did not belong to real people but were set up by an Arizona digital communications firm in violation of its <a href=\"https://www.facebook.com/communitystandards/integrity_authenticity\">community standards</a>. The social media giant has also recently cracked down on pages that promote the group <a href=\"https://www.deseret.com/indepth/2020/8/12/21353119/conspiracy-theory-qanon-link-connection-child-sex-trafficking-exploitation-social-media-advocacy/\">QAnon</a>.","type":"text"},{"_id":"E2DE7XCDSA73ZYB7TRM3DQFNIE","additional_properties":{"dropcap":false,"endmark":false},"content":"Steven Levy, editor at large for Wired magazine and author of “<a href=\"https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/551043/facebook-by-steven-levy/\">Facebook, the Inside Story,</a>” said the performance of conservative content on Facebook isn’t proof that the complaints about Facebook are wrong. But, he said, “it’s a data point that shows conservative content not only can circulate on Facebook, but that it circulates with more velocity generally than stuff from the left or stuff from the middle.”","type":"text"},{"_id":"E2DE7XCDSA73ZYB7TRM3DQFNIE","additional_properties":{"dropcap":false,"endmark":false},"content":"That doesn’t placate Dan Gainor, vice president of TechWatch at the Reston, Virginia-based Media Research Center, who believes that Facebook and other tech companies began to actively discriminate against conservatives after Trump’s election. Before the election, Gainor said, there were occasional complaints about bias; after the election, “it went from a drizzle to a downpour to the internet version of a hurricane.”","type":"text"},{"_id":"DD3WJ25FQQTVKXFBRL523MLLYY","additional_properties":{"dropcap":false,"endmark":false},"content":"“People discovered that conservatives were online, and they weren’t just online by 10s or 20s, they were online by tens of millions. And so everything that’s been done by the Big Tech companies since then has been an attempt to prevent 2016 from ever happening again,” Gainor said.","type":"text"},{"_id":"DD3WJ25FQQTVKXFBRL523MLLYY","additional_properties":{"dropcap":false,"endmark":false},"content":"Restricting the sharing of an article seen as damaging to the Biden campaign seems evidence to many conservatives, including talk-show host Mark Levin, that Facebook and Twitter are aligned with Democrats. Levin even said that the action amounted to “an in-kind contribution” to the Biden campaign. (By Thursday, the restrictions appeared to have been lifted; a reporter for the Deseret News was able to share the article on Facebook — and then delete it — without the post being flagged.)","type":"text"},{"_id":"DD3WJ25FQQTVKXFBRL523MLLYY","additional_properties":{"dropcap":false,"endmark":false},"content":"In a statement provided to the Deseret News, a Facebook spokesman said, “While many Republicans think we should take one course, many Democrats think we should do the exact opposite. We’ve faced criticism from Republicans for being biased against conservatives and Democrats for not taking more steps to restrict the exact same content. We have rules in place to protect the integrity of the election and free expression, and we will continue to apply them impartially.” ","type":"text"},{"_id":"DD3WJ25FQQTVKXFBRL523MLLYY","content":"<strong>Looking for proof</strong>","level":4,"type":"header"},{"_id":"DD3WJ25FQQTVKXFBRL523MLLYY","additional_properties":{"dropcap":false,"endmark":false},"content":"Proving bias on social media is difficult, Gainor said, but that doesn’t stop him from trying. He also runs a new website called <a href=\"http://CensorTrack.org\">CensorTrack.org</a> that publishes information on individuals and websites that claim they have been unfairly treated by social media.","type":"text"},{"_id":"DD3WJ25FQQTVKXFBRL523MLLYY","additional_properties":{"dropcap":false,"endmark":false},"content":"Cases currently listed on the site include the Catholic Speakers Organization, which says that Facebook has blocked ads for a livestream called “Election Truth Hour” and a Facebook video on California wildfires, by journalist John Stossel, labeled as misleading.","type":"text"},{"_id":"DD3WJ25FQQTVKXFBRL523MLLYY","additional_properties":{"dropcap":false,"endmark":false},"content":"Gainor says that bias is evident not only in what Facebook shuts down, but in what the company leaves up. He pointed to the company’s recent <a href=\"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/08/19/technology/facebook-qanon-groups-takedown.html\">crackdown</a> on QAnon, but said that Facebook has not been similarly tough on antifa. He also said the company would not intervene when someone posted South Carolina Republican Sen. Lindsey Graham’s home address and encouraged <a href=\"https://www.newsweek.com/protesters-gather-outside-lindsey-grahams-house-wake-him-over-push-replace-rbg-1533302\">protesters</a> to gather there last month.","type":"text"},{"_id":"DD3WJ25FQQTVKXFBRL523MLLYY","additional_properties":{"dropcap":false,"endmark":false},"content":"Rob Bluey, vice president for communications for the Heritage Foundation, said the conservative think tank and its news organization, The Daily Signal, have had problems with posts being flagged on Facebook and other forms of social media.","type":"text"},{"_id":"DD3WJ25FQQTVKXFBRL523MLLYY","additional_properties":{"dropcap":false,"endmark":false},"content":"“The problem is, can you document it? One of the things I think conservatives haven’t done well at is providing a comprehensive database of incidents,” he said.","type":"text"},{"_id":"DD3WJ25FQQTVKXFBRL523MLLYY","additional_properties":{"dropcap":false,"endmark":false},"content":"“I know there are complaints on the Left as well, but it seems to me, conservatives frequently find themselves in a position where they’re seeing their content removed or restricted, and it is concerning,” Bluey said.","type":"text"},{"_id":"DD3WJ25FQQTVKXFBRL523MLLYY","additional_properties":{"dropcap":false,"endmark":false},"content":"But Levy, of Wired magazine, said there is “no evidence whatsoever” that Facebook and other tech companies are writing code to sniff out conservative content so that it can be censored or limited. 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Levy believes that ongoing complaints about bias is a conservative strategy to keep the heat on Facebook so the company will be more hesitant to remove their content.","type":"text"},{"_id":"DD3WJ25FQQTVKXFBRL523MLLYY","additional_properties":{"dropcap":false,"endmark":false},"content":"“They’re trying to game the system so Facebook keeps hands off some of the most toxic, damaging, policy-breaking information that might come from the Right.”","type":"text"},{"_id":"DD3WJ25FQQTVKXFBRL523MLLYY","content":"<strong>A neutral platform?</strong>","level":4,"type":"header"},{"_id":"DD3WJ25FQQTVKXFBRL523MLLYY","additional_properties":{"dropcap":false,"endmark":false},"content":"In a recent <a href=\"https://www.theverge.com/21444203/facebook-leaked-audio-zuckerberg-trump-pandemic-blm\">article</a> in The Verge, writer Casey Newton described Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg as a man in the middle, struggling to deal with complaints of conservative users and policymakers while maintaining the loyalty of employees who hold different world views.","type":"text"},{"_id":"DD3WJ25FQQTVKXFBRL523MLLYY","additional_properties":{"dropcap":false,"endmark":false},"content":"In one recording obtained by The Verge, Zuckerberg said to employees, “the community we serve tends to be, on average, ideologically a little bit more conservative than our employee base.” He then added, “Maybe ‘little’ is an understatement.”","type":"text"},{"_id":"DD3WJ25FQQTVKXFBRL523MLLYY","additional_properties":{"dropcap":false,"endmark":false},"content":"In another, Facebook’s chief operating officer, Sheryl Sandberg, said she has “a very strong point of view on this president,” but said that view should not enter into her decisions at the company. “We have to be a neutral platform and make those decisions coming from a place of rules and principles.”","type":"text"},{"_id":"DD3WJ25FQQTVKXFBRL523MLLYY","additional_properties":{"dropcap":false,"endmark":false},"content":"In response to conservatives’ mounting complaints, Zuckerberg asked former Arizona Sen. Jon Kyl to look into alleged incidents of bias. While not definitive, the <a href=\"https://fbnewsroomus.files.wordpress.com/2019/08/covington-interim-report-1.pdf\">report</a> said that “Facebook’s policies and their application have the potential to restrict free expression.”","type":"text"},{"_id":"DD3WJ25FQQTVKXFBRL523MLLYY","additional_properties":{"dropcap":false,"endmark":false},"content":"In an <a href=\"https://www.dailysignal.com/2019/08/23/exclusive-kyl-interview-on-facebook/\">interview</a> with Bluey about the report for The Daily Signal, Kyl said that Facebook officials acknowledged that perception of bias is a problem even when bias does not exist. Kyl said he has “talked to people at the highest levels of the company, and they have the very best of intentions.”","type":"text"},{"_id":"DD3WJ25FQQTVKXFBRL523MLLYY","additional_properties":{"dropcap":false,"endmark":false},"content":"The political ideology of Zuckerberg is a source of speculation, but The Wall Street Journal has reported that he is registered to vote in Santa Clara County, California, without designated a political party. Prior to 2014, he made <a href=\"https://www.thoughtco.com/members-of-congress-supported-by-facebook-3367615\">contributions</a> to both Democrats and Republicans, including House Speaker Nancy Pelosi of California and former Sen. 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In a recent <a href=\"https://www.lee.senate.gov/public/_cache/files/89d2dcc8-3d2c-4fee-a6c5-d309ffcebfb4/big-tech.pdf\">letter</a> to the CEOs of Facebook and Twitter, among other tech companies, Lee asked for clarification on their content removal policies, saying that prominent conservative voices have been “deplatformed, demonetized, or otherwise penalized for expressing their opinions.”","type":"text"},{"_id":"DD3WJ25FQQTVKXFBRL523MLLYY","content":"<strong>A ‘great distribution platform’</strong>","level":4,"type":"header"},{"_id":"DD3WJ25FQQTVKXFBRL523MLLYY","additional_properties":{"dropcap":false,"endmark":false},"content":"So why do conservatives keep using Facebook if they believe the company is actively working against them?","type":"text"},{"_id":"DD3WJ25FQQTVKXFBRL523MLLYY","additional_properties":{"dropcap":false,"endmark":false},"content":"Bluey of the Heritage Foundation said that conservatives turned to Facebook initially because they believed they were discriminated against by influential newspapers such as The New York Times and The Washington Post. “Facebook, in many ways, is a great distribution platform. You don’t have to look any farther than the president himself. There are a tremendous number of conservatives having success on the platform. But I think there are times when they also encounter challenges.”","type":"text"},{"_id":"DD3WJ25FQQTVKXFBRL523MLLYY","additional_properties":{"dropcap":false,"endmark":false},"content":"He credits Facebook for meeting with conservatives and consulting them on policy changes. “They don’t always take our advice, but they do at least listen to what we have to say,” Bluey said.","type":"text"},{"_id":"DD3WJ25FQQTVKXFBRL523MLLYY","additional_properties":{"dropcap":false,"endmark":false},"content":"In fact, some Facebook employees have complained that conservatives are having too much say in the company, especially with the hiring of Joel Kaplan as Facebook’s vice president of global public policy. He is a former policy adviser and deputy chief of staff to President George W. Bush and is a friend of Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh. 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