On 25 Jully, 2018
Facebook has erased nearly 200 pages and 90 user profiles related to the so-called "MBL" (Movimento Brasil Livre - Brazilian Freedom Party). Although Facebook has not released the list of burned users, most of them are known to be connected to MBL.
As barking dogs shouting to the crowds, MBL entitles themselves as right-wing activist, and the movement gained prominence through an intense social media campaign. Gathering major support from the bulk of Brazilian middle-class, during the protests leading to the Dilma Rousseff's Presidential impeachment, anyone opposing to their MBL ideas was quickly labeled as left-wing.
Facebook argues that the pages and users burned violated the policies of authenticity and formed a "coordinated network" that had "the purpose of generating political polarization and spreading misinformation."
Facebook settled the rules to which all people must agree upon when creating a page or profile. The authenticity policies in question are present in the signed terms, and violating these rules can lead to account deletion. As we all may know, upon signing the terms of the agreement, Facebook users communicate their commitment to provide legitimate personal data when registering a page and to never engage in a non-authentic behavior.
Even if the registered accounts were based in true data (an argument put forward by MBL members) the spreading of fake news violated Facebook's conduct terms.
That is one of the main reasons behind the largest Facebook account-burning move under the umbrella of "Fake News War" to prevent abusive use of the social platform.
Especially, FB has proved itself to be a powerful tool to manipulate masses at the twin light of presidential elections, and the Brazilian one is just at the corner, going along next October 2018.
MBL members rebelled against Facebook allegations, claiming that they have not received any evidence of their violation of Facebook's policies. In their view, Facebook is undergoing political persecution to undermine right-wing parties. As of 25 July 2018, Brazilian official authorities have not positioned themselves on that matter.
Moreover, Judge Benedito from "Ministério Publico Federal" already requested a complete list of deleted accounts and a detailed justification within 48 hours. Indeed, there was no court order on the matter, only Benedito's request. To note is the fact that the prosecutor manifests himself publicly in social networks with positions aligned to the right-wing.
Facebook has just managed to write an unprecedented episode within three months of the Brazilian elections. Many ask if FB move was too bold, confusing "violation of terms" with blatant "engagement on censorship". The matter is being extensively debated not only in Brazilian media but all over the globe, given the possible outcomes of this aggressive policy.
In fact, such account-burns were already applied elsewhere in the platform, but always in much-diluted doses. What we saw there in Brazil's case have just reached up to the next level.
Is that an example of the size of what is to come in terms of Facebook arbitrary judgment? Was it a pure move backed by clear reasoning, or another sound censorship mistake.
Comment on what you think about this recent Facebook chapter. The bulk of the Novel is yet to unfold.
b.b.
This is the moment to strike back, as Fakebook is weak and reeling from the stock plunge.
A coordinated pushback by the many parties that have been banned and censored might force Fakebook to reinstate and quit censoring - at least until the stock price rises again (if it can).
I have a Fakebook account that is not banned, has never been censored, and is provably not providing true user information.
One trick is to make an account that poses as a left wing radical. This deeply harms the enemies of freedom by creating false data, at best for them, that causes their algorithms to believe there's a user they can count on for votes, posts, and etc., that they cannot actually count on. They won't ban leftist accounts.
My account under the undeniably fake name is proof.
While such accounts cannot often make posts that speak truth to power, they can sidle up to the truth, skew polling numbers, and generally wreak havoc with statistics, until the time is right to post a #walkaway, or speak truly on an important issue.
Due to the account being historically leftist, such departure from the narrative might even be survivable for the account. I also have a twatter account that I do the same with.
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it wouldnt surprise me if this is just Facebook being arbitrary. Youtube does similar nonsense, only (normally) via different means; making it hard to monetize a video, or not letting subscribers get notified of freshly uploaded content, etc... Funny thing, as I somewhat suspect government letter agencies are in control of YouTube and Google. As for FaceBook, well, i think it speaks for itself. Just my opinion though :)
Yes, I also think "arbitrary" might be the best word to describe what is going on with FB. Their time has come. Other powerful social media platforms are taking over. Steemit (maybe) heading the revolution.
b.b.
Facebook is going down the drain.
@ironshield
Thank for you input! Nice to see the Scandals vs. Stock correlation.
b.b.
facebook is social side and many user uses this network. so many many legit or scam news may be published by facebook user. so We will tell the truth of the news.
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