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Big Brother Is Here: Facebook Reveals Its Master Plan - Control All News Flow
Submitted by Mike Krieger via Liberty Blitzkrieg blog,
In recent months, Facebook has been quietly holding talks with at least half a dozen media companies about hosting their content inside Facebook rather than making users tap a link to go to an external site.
The new proposal by Facebook carries another risk for publishers: the loss of valuable consumer data. When readers click on an article, an array of tracking tools allow the host site to collect valuable information on who they are, how often they visit and what else they have done on the web.
And if Facebook pushes beyond the experimental stage and makes content hosted on the site commonplace, those who do not participate in the program could lose substantial traffic — a factor that has played into the thinking of some publishers. Their articles might load more slowly than their competitors’, and over time readers might avoid those sites.
- From the New York Times article: Facebook May Host News Sites’ Content
Last week, I came across an incredibly important article from the New York Times, which described Facebook’s plan to provide direct access to other websites’ content in exchange for some sort of advertising partnership. The implications of this are so huge that at this point I have far more questions than answers.
Let’s start with a few excerpts from the article:
With 1.4 billion users, the social media site has become a vital source of traffic for publishers looking to reach an increasingly fragmented audience glued to smartphones. In recent months, Facebook has been quietly holding talks with at least half a dozen media companies about hosting their content inside Facebook rather than making users tap a link to go to an external site.
Such a plan would represent a leap of faith for news organizations accustomed to keeping their readers within their own ecosystems, as well as accumulating valuable data on them. Facebook has been trying to allay their fears, according to several of the people briefed on the talks, who spoke on condition of anonymity because they were bound by nondisclosure agreements.
Facebook intends to begin testing the new format in the next several months, according to two people with knowledge of the discussions. The initial partners are expected to be The New York Times, BuzzFeed and National Geographic, although others may be added since discussions are continuing. The Times and Facebook are moving closer to a firm deal, one person said.
Facebook has said publicly that it wants to make the experience of consuming content online more seamless. News articles on Facebook are currently linked to the publisher’s own website, and open in a web browser, typically taking about eight seconds to load. Facebook thinks that this is too much time, especially on a mobile device, and that when it comes to catching the roving eyeballs of readers, milliseconds matter.
The Huffington Post and the business and economics website Quartz were also approached. Both also declined to discuss their involvement.
Facebook declined to comment on its specific discussions with publishers. But the company noted that it had provided features to help publishers get better traction on Facebook, including tools unveiled in December that let them target their articles to specific groups of Facebook users, such as young women living in New York who like to travel.
The new proposal by Facebook carries another risk for publishers: the loss of valuable consumer data. When readers click on an article, an array of tracking tools allow the host site to collect valuable information on who they are, how often they visit and what else they have done on the web.
And if Facebook pushes beyond the experimental stage and makes content hosted on the site commonplace, those who do not participate in the program could lose substantial traffic — a factor that has played into the thinking of some publishers. Their articles might load more slowly than their competitors’, and over time readers might avoid those sites.
And just as Facebook has changed its news feed to automatically play videos hosted directly on the site, giving them an advantage compared with videos hosted on YouTube, it could change the feed to give priority to articles hosted directly on its site.
Let me try to address this the best I can from several different angles. First off, what’s the big picture plan here? As the number two ranked website in the world with 1.4 billion users, Facebook itself is already something like an alternative internet where a disturbing number of individuals spend a disproportionate amount of their time. The only thing that seems to make many of its users click away is content hosted on other people’s websites linked to from Facebook users. Other than this outside content, many FB users might never leave the site.
While this is scary to someone like me, to Facebook it is an abomination. The company doesn’t want people to leave their site ever — for any reason. Hence the aggressive push to carry outside news content, and create a better positioned alternative web centrally controlled by it. This is a huge power play move.
Second, the New York Times righty asks the question concerning what will publishers get from Facebook for allowing their content to appear on the site seamlessly. Some sort of revenue share from advertisers seems to be an obvious angle, but perhaps there’s more.
While Facebook isn’t a huge traffic driver for Liberty Blitzkrieg, it isn’t totally irrelevant either. For example, FB provided about 3% of the site’s traffic over the past 12 months. This is despite the fact that LBK doesn’t even have a Facebook page, and I’ve never shared a link through it. Even more impressive, Facebook drove more traffic to LBK over the same time period than Twitter, and I am very active on that platform. So I can only imagine how important FB is to website editors who actually use it.
This brings me to a key point about leverage. It seems to me that Facebook has all the leverage in negotiations with content providers. If you’re a news website that refuses to join in this program, over time you might see your traffic evaporate compared to your competitors whose content will load seamlessly and be promoted by the FB algorithm. If a large percentage of your traffic is being generated by Facebook, can you really afford to lose this?
One thing that FB might be willing to offer publishers in return other than advertising dollars, is increased access to their fan base. For example, when I try to figure out through Google analytics who specifically (or what page) on Facebook is sharing my work, I can’t easily do so. Clearly this information could prove very useful for networking purposes and could be quite valuable.
Looking for some additional insight and words of wisdom, I asked the smartest tech/internet person I know for his opinion. It was more optimistic than I thought:
This could be a huge shaper of news on the internet. or it could turn out to be nothing.
Other than saying that I don’t really know how to predict what might or might not happen, and I sort of don’t care much because it is in the realm (for now at least) of stuff that I don’t read (mainstream news), on a site that I never see (Facebook). However, the one thing I wonder in terms of the viability of this is whether in the end it may drive people away from FB.
Back in the day, probably when you weren’t so aware of the nascent net, there were two giant “services” on the Internet called Compuserve and America Online. They were each what you are thinking that Facebook is heading toward; exclusive, centralized portals to the whole net. They were also giant and successful at the time. Then people outside of them started doing things that were so much more creative and interesting. At the same time, in order to make everything fit inside their proprietary boxes and categories, they were making everything ever more standardized and boring. Then they just abruptly died.
Given the enormity of what Facebook is trying to achieve, I have some obvious concerns. First, since all of the leverage seems to reside with Facebook, I fear they are likely to get the better part of any deal by wide margin. Second, if they succeed in this push, this single company’s ability to control access to news and what is trending and deemed important by a huge section of humanity will be extraordinary.
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Fuckbook? Another Goy invention lifted by a Jew.
I'm making over $7k a month working part time. I kept hearing other people tell me how much money they can make online so I decided to look into it. Well, it was all true and has totally changed my life. This is what I do... www.jobs-review.com
Can you pay my rent this month?
Call it what it is Joobook. Another way to control how you perceive the world. Fucklebergsteinowitz can take a hike.
I think this shows how desperate both parties are.
The MSM is dying. Facebook has plateued.
However the risk is great to both parties. What happens when users hijack the message? And how do they control feedback?
I think this will shoot both of them in the foot in the end.
BLOWBACK BITCHEZ.
Do you see any of your code on Facebook?
Did I use any of your code?
What? Match.com for Harvard guys?
You know, you really don't need a forensics team to get to the bottom of this.
If you guys were the inventors of Facebook, you'd have invented Facebook.
And honestly, the "goy" version of this, classmates.com, had been around for ages stinking up your spam folder. Thank God the MBAs didn't win this battle. They would have monetized it to death. And YOUR opinion has benefited. YOU have been given a voice.
The master plan is nothing new.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ForvEyNABs8
Whoever Controls The Media Controls The World
Nice little talk on what Facebooks algo's actually do... https://youtu.be/p6vM4dhI9I8
Anyone who is still on FB and wants to get off, you need to completely delete your account, not just deactivate it. It's not easy to find out how through them. Follow directions here;
http://www.groovypost.com/howto/security/permanently-delete-your-faceboo...
Sorry, even that won't totally get rid of it. And even if you don't have a facebook and never had had one, Facebook still has a "dark" profile for you, based on pictures uploaded by other people of you, uses of your name, etc etc.
The best thing you can do at this point if you have a FB account is to post bad and misleading information. Tag people with incorrect names, put false intrests down about yourself, post fictional stories, etc.. If they're going to use it to gather information on you, let it be totally worthless.
As gnostech said, you are on facebook. Like it or not. If you've ever had your picture taken by a facebook user and that user tagged you, you are on there. Just think of the implications of that for a few. All the sheeple are self reporting and linking themselves up via photos and postings. The Stasi had to work for their info.
Yes, this is all about control of the 'message'. They are loosing control, this is one option they've chosen and they'll attempt to vilify any and all alternate sources.
This attack on RT is another skirmish in the war for your minds , http://rt.com/shows/crosstalk/244401-media-eu-nato-us/ , maybe lesser known sites will just be disappeared.
Who REALLY Controls The Mainstream Media?
Imagine FaceFuck controlling all the information delivered to the sheep on say ….hmmm, Russia for example.
"they" have lost control of the narrative. Can't even get a good game of cowboys and indians going anywhere in the world any longer.
When despite all their insane raving about him, even Putin comes off looking more of a statesman than anybody in the West, its obvious the stories no longer hold together into a believable story
This is the natural progression.........first expansion then consolidation but in the end unfortunatly it will likely mean the death of any sort of freedom on the internet.
They probably told Zuckerfuck to play ball or theyd release pics of him with little boys. It's always the same
o you have to swallow to make that much or can you spit?
I'm gonna twitter this shit.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qBCUCJNWimo
"...With 1.4 billion users..."
Yeah, and I account for a dozen of those. I can't remember the username or password or email account that I made up the last time I was forced to use it so I just make up another one. Which I promptly forget again because I never use it.
When you hear your teenage kids say, "Facebook?? Facebook SUCKS" you know it's over for them.
MSM want's to funnel their feces through FB? Hey - I'm all for it. More power to them. I would rather have ALL the knuckle-draggers self-confined to their own little cage somewhere on the periphery of the internet than wandering around loose and showing up on worthwhile sites. Like I would ever even bother to make up yet another fake account on Facebook to read somethign like the NYT, WSJ, WaPo, Bussiness Insider, etc., etc., etc.
This sounds exactly like America Online back in the 90s. They tried to create their own self-contained Internet, too. It didn't exactly end well.
Half the people I know already ditched FB for Instagram. The other half were smart enough never to join FB..
I'm glad I'm in the latter group--never joined :)
Facebook owns instagram so you are still in the cage.
When NSA run bartertown, dont matter what social media network you use, you are being watched
The only problem with that is FB bought Instagram in April 2012.
http://www.wsj.com/articles/SB10001424052702303815404577333840377381670
I have a few accounts I haven't used in years. You can't delete them.
I don't have an account or go there at all. Would it be subversive to create lots and lots of accounts, I wonder?
OT: exposes the agenda on one front.
Where's Goog glass tech whiz Barnaby?
Lloyds excluding damages from non-ionizing radiation on policies.
Cell phones, masts, wifi, bluetooth, smart meters.
http://thephaser.com/2015/03/the-phaser-letter-to-the-editor-wireless-smart-meters-and-lloyds-insurance-giant/
Real estate is going to be real fun. They're putting up towers every mile here.
im sure if we all pitch in we can raise fb's userbase to 5 or 10 times the population of the planet.
then lets see 'em brag about "50 billion users." even "X.Y billion active users" would be plainly seen as having no providence.
PS.
Sun TZU, you can delete them. They don't make it easy. Follow link on this;
http://www.groovypost.com/howto/security/permanently-delete-your-faceboo...
This.
I think most people get off facebook whne they hit about 26 or 27 years old.
I got off it along time ago and most of the teengagers today don't use it at all.
Teenage kids are saying fuck facebook? Where do you live? I want to move there
I suppose it could in a way exert an influence on what people read, but I would guess that the percentage of people who wish to reside completely on the FB site is not all that large, and I can't think that this is really an audience worth persuing tbh.
Others, who figure out that their typical sources of media are being throttled will seek out those sources outside the facebook site and it might cause them to think twice about how much time they spend there or whether FB really has anything to offer.
For FB I'm in the same camp as the Internet guru, I think it could end up biting FB in the ass...in the end.
Apathy [passive] + eye candy / Celeb / sex [active] type clickbait model. They are betting a large percentage of user are apathetic to going outside FB. They would already have a good idea of their users psych profile.
Curiosity is overestimated as a trait.
It probably doesn't matter anyway. The 'types' that use FB are the same people that belive all the sh!t that's fed to them on the nightly news. So..who cares if those people are getting the same crap thru spacebook?
o snap, does anyone remember myspace?..
hell, I remember comp u serve..
lol
(yeah, I said lol..and 'o-snap' too)
The game is still Monopoly. ...why do we seem to forget that?
BREAKING NEWS; ALL News Flows are conTROLLED.
What the hell is Facebook?
And now that I read this article I'm terrified ZH might not appear on it. Sounds like... really important and stuff.
Despite the attempt to turn Americans into the bad guy as their govt plows through one nation after another, stealing resources, killing everyone in site and leaving those still half alive in rubble, FB has allowed us here in America and Canada to reveal the real story. We do not talk about our families, jobs or dinner. We post news links.
https://www.facebook.com/wendy.davisguess
Take a look. United we stand.
It's all fun and games until the FBI knocks on your door.
They will, and did.
I no longer facebook.
Good for you, I suppose. I can't be bothered with Facebook for the simple reason I can't be bothered with Facebook, or MySpace before that (anyone remember MySpace?) or AOL before that.
When you speak to people, face to face, you can better judge if they heard you or if they were listening.
All the same, it doesn't seem likely to matter. Have you contemplated just how much you do not and cannot know? The whole thing is mindboggling in scale and scope and the intricate webs of alliances and deceit is beyond comprehension.
And that is the good news. It is too complex. Everything is too complex. People fashion TPTB as some sort of continuation of the Nazis of old and even further back. Yes, this does seem to be the case. However, the Nazis used slave labor to build complex weapons systems that were too heavy for a lot of ground that needed to be fought over, mechanically unreliable, too complex to manufacture in mass quantities quickly, and required extensive training for an ever dwindling number of soldiers capable of learning to use the systems while being loyal and contientious (they impressed captured soldiers from one front to fight on another against a different enemy).
Does that sounds familiar? How many Abrams and Apaches can we churn out? Can an Abrams get everywhere it might need to go? Those fields in Donbass looked awfully muddy. Just how fast can we make these tanks now that our auto industry is just about gonesky? How much effort does it take to maintain and supply the Abrams and Apache? Do any Chinese components go into that tank or helo? How about software from other countries? How much does it cost, how long does it take, and what are the requirements for a tanker or helo crew? We have plenty of people who can read, write and speak english and, for sure, they are totally, like, loyal and everything, right?
Care to compare the monetary or financial systems? How about police and surviellance? Regulations and social justice? Fanaticisms? Fear/loathing of the other?
History repeats, just sometimes wavelengths get crossed.
Sharing links and making observations is hardly talking to each other. And if the FBI is reading our news feeds, then they should realize that only a fool would not object to the real news. Remember, when the number of people in the demonstrations reaches 1 million, the cops change sides. When the cops change sides, it's over for the couple thousand at the top of this pyramid made from blood, sweat and tears of 4 generations. The end is going to be the same for Americans. I am a Canadian in America. And I strongly feel that every american no matter their income is going to be answering to the Chinese govt officials by the time they wrap this up. Americans are going to be responsible for the debt their politicians racked up. Just like Greece. Elimination of the middle class is not something to take lying down if you care at all about humanity and what our actions today will do to future humans on this planet. China is not a nice country.
Laughable...you don't know shit about Americans...and the fuckan Chinese? Seriously?
What is there to know? Father was given an ambassorship by Canadian govt in his industry (mining) when he was needed to do a complex job during a deep freeze and broken water main (ice filled mine shaft). During that trip from Sudbury, in Johnstown, PA, a mining accident occurred resulting in a bucket of several tons of muck falling 500 feet down a shaft onto the heads of 2 men, one of whom had 11 children and who was also the superintendent of the drilling company sinking the shaft. My father was in Pittsburgh when it happened. The coal miners refused to go down the hole. They called and asked my father, who did. http://www.camgenpa.com/news/1965TD.html He sautered the bucket back onto the same crane and went down numerous times, but when it came time to bring up the deceased drillers, the company boss decided he had the courage, and the media coverage was called in. My dad was devastated. But the company offered him the job of the superintendent and gave him and his family life long visas. He traveled to other countries and left my us in a very small town. Mother decided to spend her time at the bar. The towns people raised me, fed me, let me sleep there, took me to doctor, stores, and never made me feel badly about my fractured family and empty home. They were Polish, Slovadian, Filipino, Italian, and back in 1965, the people were very kind, hard working, honest and private.
I know enough that I have gratitude toward the Americans for keeping me from going where I should have gone considering the situation. They showed me love. And I plan on doing what I can to see to it that these people are not punished for what their govt and big money interests have done in their name. They do not deserve this.
There is no hero who is going to come and save the day. If the global community turns its back on your country when the real reason for combat equipment and enough ammo to wipe out the entire population, the surveillance and the FEMA camps, the gloves will come off and the Rich Kid on the Block will be put in his place with the techniques used by the US soldiers, deemed torture. With the bankers and the manipulation going on going unreported by MSM everywhere, FB is the only choice. Huffpo may have been once but that quickly changed when AH joined AOL.
ZH commentors who down vote me and yet scream on these threads condemnation must be in the library because boys it is the same fucking thing.
The problem is that FB will quickly erase any information or communication that is a danger to TPTB, disable the account of whoever sends it, and provide the three letter agencies the information needed to take out the troublemaker.
Personally, I agree with the other posts - FB will just turn into another Compuserve/AOL and be just as irrelevant... and the silver lining is that the MSM who go for this scheme will circle the bowl along with them.
Re: Chinese - I just happened to a little bit as I was a roommate of a youg Chinese woman who married her way into America (to a Mormon missionary). She came from Utah after, in a matter of months, her husband left her. She was crying on her American boss' shoulder shortly thereafter and allowed him to set her up in an apartment completely furnished. It did not work out, she said, because he expected her to sleep with him. It was not in her plans. She roomed with me after getting a job as an exporter at a produce operation. I watched her, in 6 months, set up 2 export businesses and take her company's client's file and start her own exporting operation, with the 2 separate businesses bidding against each other. She had the state of mind that she could do whatever she wanted her, that the people in this country owe her, because of her govt's generosity. She displayed contempt toward Americans, and had no qualms in stating so. She was the daughter of a military man who was forced to work in the fields and not pursue his talent (art). One child policy has created little emperors and princesses.
The debt the US owes now will never be paid back and everyone knows it just the same as in Europe. Back in the 1980's people were scared Japan was going to own the US too but as you can see things change. The real question is whether the US will go quietly into the sunset (ie it stays just a financial war, SWIFT vs CIPS) as power shifts or if they will start WW III as a last resort to holding onto power (against a country with nearly 5 times the population of the US). Remember this is not a knock against the american people, it's a showcase of the lunacy of politicians and every empire dating back to the beginning of recorded time can attest to it.
What the FUCK are you talking about?
In a nutshell, there are too many spinning plates to keep them all aloft.
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I can't say for sure, as I've never visited the site. Based on what I've gleaned contextually from people talking/writing about it, it appears to be a holding pen for human cattle.
"What the hell is Facebook?"
Same thing as Assbook, but for skullfuckers
He who controls the data controls history.
He who controls history controls the future...
No surprise the J-mafia is making moves on that aspect of information besides big media companies.
Goliath = Facebook, Google, Yahoo, Microsoft, Apple
David = we the little people
Time to switch and put them back where they started. I hear young people are moving to instagram. That is a start.
Wehave to teach Goliath that our liberty and privacy are notto be trifled with. Let them go broke.
Isn't instagram owned by Facebook now?
What does it matter when these large media companies can buy whatever competition or start up they want.
Yep.
"The service was acquired by Facebook in April 2012 for approximately US$1 billion in cash and stock."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Instagram
Speaking of Privacy...
v1.2. March 31. Mac users have no excuses.
We need to go back to messages carried by pigeons.
When the NYTImes published that story, 99% of the commentors on the Times site threatened to cancel their subscriptions if the Times entered into any kind of deal with Facebook. Many felt that Facebook, which they have avoided, would thru the NYTimes, have access to their personnal data and it would be for Sale.
Who subscribes to the JewYorkTimes these days? Maybe you got your story mixed up.
Fuck Facebook. FuckFace Book! FuckFuckerBerg!
Not going to happen for a variety of reasons. Facebook is getting desperate.
But will ZH be surfaced in FB?
The day ZH joins assface, that's the day I quit using the internet, short of buying gold and silver (My closest bullion dealer is 300 miles away, I'm in hickville Saskatchewan, unless someone can tell me of a place in Regina?)
Solution: stop using narcissist book. Stop. Cease. Just knock it off. Removing a parasite can be tough, but knowing how to not attract them is certain victory. Do not feed it. Simple. Great idea...instead of anti-social socializing on fb, go socialize with live people in person! Oh shit, somebody delete my profile like disqus did because, I had the guts to point out the obvious. Stop using these fb like sites. Join zh. Learn something. Unlearn something. Laugh a lot. Cuss. And be free. Jolly. Awake.
Stop? Never started.
It was hard to quit, used to get sauced and then revive my account...post some ZH link and rant away. I FINALLY kicked the FB habit for good, been well over a year...had to quit drinking too so take this all for what it is worth. Prep away doomers the end looks near!
"My reccomendation to you: Start drinking heavily" -Bluto
Whoah, whoah..... nobody said anything about quitting drinking here.
That is some funny shit!
You worded it nicely. Everyone on the fucking site is so full of themselves it is amazing. I only keep my account to keep up with some old overseas rommates. Otherwise the place disgusts me. Fucking sociopath nation.
I wouldn't worry about it. Facebook is the new AOL and is on it's downslope. Advertising will continue driving people away. Remember emachines? As for the NYT, they are busted and looking for any sale/exit strategy as is more and more progressive/lefty media organizations.
Think of the add revenue. Time to smash the buy button on this hot new stock.
Sorry, I don't "facebook." Waste of time.
Nothing new.
Look at the control the Commies at Google ALREADY enjoy via their search engine dominance and Wikipedia. Go ahead, and just TRY and enter a factual, but politically incorrect revision to the propaganda in one of their "encyclopedia" articles.
God, it would be awful if the media was biased and controlled.... Dang....
Fairly revealing list of content providers that they are interested in. A full set of One World Kumbaya websites. The net result of this would be, or will be, to re-institute the closely-held monopoly once enjoyed by the ABC, CBS, NBC, AP, UPI syndicate.
The Spike will be back in all its original glory and the Internet will cease to be an alternative.
It might perhaps be easiest to think of this as a new Inner-net beyond which most urbanites will never stray. Couple this with Google plans for free hot spots everywhere and you have reinstituted full control for all but a very small number of those who still cherish the original dream of an Empire of Free Men.
so just register on Facebook under a nom de plume with some free email account for junk emails and get on with downloading corporate gorp pretending to be news
And then I stopped using Facebook, even to stay in contact with friends or coordinate parties.
Insects. Last Men at the End of History.
Who cares? We are the Remnant. That is all that matters.
Russia goalie hit by flare, match ended, but Ukraine media focuses on Novorossiya flags in crowd
Using FaCIAbook makes you an agent of Zion's Stasi against yourself, family, friends, and neighbors.
The banksters need to repay us.
"Don't believe the hype. It's Zion."
"The banksters need to repay us."
WE GET IT FFS!
Maybe he got kicked off of Facebook.
At the end of this road, everyone ends up in the same place. Elimination of the middle class is underway and unless Americans force the only possible barrier to the front of the burner, 911 which statutes of limitations do not apply due to the deaths committed during a felony, there will be a tax hike that leaves you with pennies to live on.
Google has been doing this for years. Facebook is just an also-ran for the trailer park crowd. Same with Yahoo, Reddit and Twitter.
The real power in these systems is to witness in real time the trending nature of mass perception and information requests.
Just being able to see this data-flow allows you to not just know what people are "yearning for" but to give it to them - spoonfuls at a time.
Just enough to keep consuming and not getting organized to target and kill the elite.
It is Science Fiction for a very elite few and we are not in an age of competing AI yet.
Just unplug from these systems. Ignore what they are trying to sell you.
Do you have oil interests in the Middle East?
Food interests in Ukraine?
Does any billionaire even live in your state?
Do you think your local representatives give two shits about you and your family?
It's all trivia.
Connect with your family and build a local network of folks you can trust.
All politics are local.
Consider yourself the Taliban squatting in a cave with the Google Robot Air Force flying high at 60,000 feet.
That is the world you are living in.
Never forget though.
You will always hold the ground. (At least until the Google Warbots are parked on every street corner.)
very good
and also to know what's been proscribed for the people.
How many stories do you remember seeing about the missing Ukrainian ATC tapes? Some office decided that the Ukrainian Deceit should not be reinforced in the minds of the people with stories about the tapes disappearance in the MSM.
Look how much information was obtained by the immediate release of the recordings concerning the Germanwings pilot Andreas Lubitz.
But the government or agency responsible for the 298 deaths on MH17 want the denouement put off as long as possible, knowing that with each passing day since the tragedy, the public's concern is a tiny bit less. And false alibis can be constructed; testimony can be suborned; the guilty can get off and the innocent can be convicted. It's obvious that if the ATC tapes pointed a finger at the Kremlin or the pro-Russians in Donbas, Kiev wouldn'r have misplaced them and the NYT and WaPo would have scores of stories and Op-Ed pieces in google instead of none.
But this is our world. It was like this when I was born into it. Though I hadn't a clue until Kennedy was shot; even then I never thought it was fatal. Watergate and Nixon's resignation was a dose of false hope.
Followed by the Clarence Thomas confirmation hearings, the First Gulf War, Monica Lewinsky, and the Gore v Bush decision. Prognosis negative.
If you aren't seeing this, you are either ignorant, in denial, or a card-carrying neocon.
Sooner or later you'll wake to the darkness.
So that let me in the "dark" b/c I don't use Facebook.
The most successful division of the nsa is Facebook.
Yep. Look up who/what "N-Q-Tel" is. (its a company created by and run by the CIA)
https://www.iqt.org/about-iqt/
Now we look at a list of N-Q-Tels "investments". Facebook is at the top of the list.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/In-Q-Tel#Investments
People have left the mainstream media and they will leave Facebook faster once the mainstream media arrives. Its a lose lose proposition. Besides Facebook's traffic is a FRAUD in the first place. Once FRAUD enters into society as it is now you have to use common sense to know what is really happening.
Somebody still uses Facebook?
Ya the baby boomers just discovered it.
It is for morons who like exchanging likes.....
Btw, what is the big deal with fb news? It is only about showing stuff people share, so where is the beef?
Zerohedge's credibility is sinking at incredible pace.
Next time I am worried of deluge, I will not check ZH.
Big Brother has been here for quite some time. Where have you been....?
"If a large percentage of your traffic is being generated by Facebook...", then your business is already fucked. Facebook has jumped the shark. Even 14 yr. old girls think FB is uncool.
"this single company’s ability to control access to news and what is trending and deemed important by a huge section of humanity...". Really? The section of humanity who depend on FB for news/trending/important events is actually shrinking, and this section of humanity is utterly disposable in any case... lemmings... sheep. They barely have two nickels to rub together, and they probably went into debt to get one on those nickels...
I am afraid that the problem with MSM pre-exists anything Faceboob might do.
My name is Joego1 and I've been facebook free for over a year now.
I'm going to go ahead and accrue a bunch of downvotes and say, Facebook is actually not that bad you guys. Not in comparison. Do you have a cellphone or use a credit card? Then you are every bit as vulnerable and every bit as watched as anybody logged into the All Seeing Eye. Have you been inside a bank, outside a bank, or anywhere near a bank? Then your face is on the grid motherfuckers, and I guarantee those eyes know who you are and where you live. Do you have a Driver's License? Com'on, now. This is more generational animosity than genuine concern, and, like credit cards, Facebook is useful for doing some things at the expense of a totally imaginary sense of anonymity.
Facebook user data is utter BS. I only have an account because of pressure from family/friends. I only log in twice a year. Althought I have turned off all the email/text notifications, Facebook changes the setting and sends me messages.
Then I have two corporate accounts which I set up and never use. One has a couple of posts, the other has only a profile.
My guess is that when facebook changes the user settings it pretends that user is now active.
Just a giant swindle I'd say.
So a health worker monitored for Ebola collapsed while jogging in public…
I know two people who are really into Facef*ck. One is a 60ish friend with a high school education who works as an administrative assistant; her husband is a retired janitor. She said to me (I shit you not): "It's as if Facebook was made for me!!!" She likes to post about her knitting hobby and her volunteering teaching of ballet to little kids. I'm sure she will believe any "news" Facef*ck feeds her.
Another is my mildly retarded cousin (my aunt had to take massive meds when pregnant with her, hence the result), who is also very much into Farmville. I'm sure she will also believe any "news" Facef*ck feeds her.
Facef*ck has a clientele, but I don't consider myself to be part of it. Since I don't want to be mean, I won't characterize that clientele with a few punchy epithets.
"Facebook itself is already something like an alternative internet where a disturbing number of individuals spend a disproportionate amount of their time."
Prepare to insert the Facebook zombies into the Matrix.
FaceBook stats according to Google Trends, FaceBook popularity peaked in 2013.
https://www.google.com/trends/explore#q=%2Fm%2F02y1vz
didn't aol used to to this? didn't do much good for them, did it?
I never joined FB. From the gitgo I always thought FB was for 13 year olds. All this shit about "liking" people and how many "likes" someone had.
WTF? was my first thought. Grownups doing this shit? Now the sheep are addicted. They deserve what they get.
Fuck FaceBook is what I say.
I agree with you. I don't use it but sometimes I help my mom use it and it is unbelievable how so many older folks live on there. Then it doesn't help when my other family members post photos of me when I made it damn clear I never want my photos on there. We'll be at a family dinner then my sister is like "oh that one got 50 likes" - I really do. not. care. and don't want to be on there.
Many news websites have already moved to Facebook their Comment sections, like Huffy has done.
They cry, "We are tired of trolls that have courage to express opinions different from the official. We keep deleting them all. Now we require all posts to be made using Facebook accounts with real photos and real names. If somebody is against a new war or spying or inappropriate money spending, we will record her message together with her name and phone number."
Seriously folks - lighten up. This only effects people who spend their day on Spacebook. If you don't like it, or you think its yet another Jewish conspiracy, don't log in.
spy vs. spy100
What if this is big and they don't allow sites like FOX to play in their reindeer games.
It will be interesting to see how this works and before the Facebook story came out, we had another story on the use of bots with creating news. If the Facebook plan doesn't do it all they have a plan b and you might end up having to pay 20 cents charged to your credit card to read certain news articles.
Take notice of the Journobots that are growing too, so it's NYT or WSJ bot story being fed through the bot feeds at Facebook:) It's a bot, bot world. Who knows they could do both plan a and b.
http://ducknetweb.blogspot.com/2015/03/major-us-newspapers-sign-up-and-invest.html
With using journobots, the news feeds can be rigged to interact with the markets and upon watching those bots, the news bots as the parameters get set could fire off any kind of news article, again depending on who programs the bot to do what.
Sean Gourley was pretty much all over it a while back when he explained the social networks, as humans have a value of 1-2 cents on Facebook, while their bots are worth $100, so maybe that's enough to slap a few folks in the face? The humans are around to do what they can't get the bots to do at Facebook. Folks on Facebook as he says become the techno serfs and I think we can say we see that already.
http://ducknetweb.blogspot.com/2014/03/algorithms-that-exploit-sean-gour...
good post MQ, +1
Also a new documentary done by the folks at VPro...this is really good and they ask the question of where is the real world and you get to see a VC just dancing away on how "happy" he is...It's like we have the Silicon Valley Folks on one end of the spectrum and then we have the government on the other side...
http://ducknetweb.blogspot.com/2015/03/cybertopia-dreams-of-silicon-valley.html
These are the same folks that did the Quant documentary and all the good videos on High Frequency Trading, to include the Wall Street Code. So after reading this about Facebook, see what the documentary has to say. Seriously we have the coders and innovators that go over the edge on one side and the dupers in government that have not a clue as to what's going on. I may not be happy with the government but I'm not sure the Silicon Valley is the right choice to run the country either:) We have no door three to choose:)
1.4B members makes it about the same population as India or China. Even if 20% are fake or inactive, it's still pretty mind-blowing. If a viable, decentralized alternative ever comes along, it could actually be a useful site. I'm not sure whatever happened to Second Life but I think it had its own currency.
1.4 billion? I wonder if the people working in clickfarms, who make up about 700 million of these "users", give a fuck about what's in the fartbook news feed??
It's more like F**kFaceBook, they f*** your face by feeding you fake shit and left a whole load of mess.
You've seen it all when a British newspaper starts quoting the European Union to warn people against joining a US web site:
Leave Facebook if you don't want to be spied on, warns EU
The European Commission has warned EU citizens that they should close their Facebook accounts if they want to keep information private from US security services, finding that current Safe Harbour legislation does not protect citizen’s data.
http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2015/mar/26/leave-facebook-snooped-on-warns-eu-safe-harbour-privacy-us
This system of the Secret Services controlling the news printed by the Newpapers and aired by the Broadcasting stations is already in place in western Europe . It has been going on for over 70 years .
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CNN's Amanpour Nailed for Censoring Guest in Propaganda Discussionhttp://russia-insider.com/en/2014/12/13/1250
Our Exclusive Interview with German Editor Turned CIA Whistleblowerhttp://russia-insider.com/en/germany_politics_media_watch/2014/10/16/03-...
NEWS in 2 Minutes, the news Facebook will never control... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kvtRUU1zJNY
FB is nothing more than a neverending questionaire about your life. They want as much data as possible in order to determine what they want you to see. If you want to complain directly to the government put it on FB. Fucking idiots that believe that shit deserve what they get.
Ive always felt MySpace and Facebook were avenues for the Devil to enter our lives.
I spend about 10 hours a day on FB, and I still don't know if jet fuel can melt steel beams.
That's the whole point. Keep you focused on trivialities. Bread and circuses, baby!
Sounds like a nightmare or an Advertisers wet dream. Imagine information control in the hands of an Advertising company.
O dont see how that will substantially change the prospects for anyone who is already hooked by social media, as a mean to obtain information. People like that are already long gone in that path, however 1,5 bilion they may be. In the other hand, it may allow the resurgence of parallel internets. Why have just one?
I wonder if ZH will be one of the internal links on FB? LMAO!
I have one FB acct under a pseudoidentity that I use once in awhile just to swap/shop the local garbarge. Kinda sucks when I go to buy something and they call me by my screenname and I look at them funny because I forgot about it, lol.
On other fronts, fuck fb. I have some big, bad anti-gov't friends that spend hours every night on that POS site. What's really funny are people that write me thinking they know me. I always reply to the woman lol.
https://www.facebook.com/groups/133609909090/
Well the internet is something like a free market. Nobody is forcing you to use "facebook", there are no government regulations that give FB a competitive advantage or subsidizing their efforts. Whatever happens is more or less organic and huge monopolies in free markets are very rare. Everyone knows the "standard oil" story and how they cornered the oil makrte back in the day, but it should also be understood that standard oil brought oil prices down from $30 dollars to $8. The biggest objections to their monopoly came from their competitors, and when the monopoly was broken up by government, prices eventually started climbing again.
So my point is, in a free market, the only monpoly that can exist is one where the 'monopoler' offers something superior to its competition. The second that it doesn't the market is free to compete and the monopoly is broken. Only through government mandates can truly malignant monopolies exist, like the central bank. As of right now, facebook offers a product that the consumer can freely choose to use or not use, and anyone is free to start a competitive social media site.
The day that facebook begins lobbying the government to create regulations that stifle competition is the day that we should be worried.
Fucckk facebook. Cancelled it long ago.
Don't the democrat/socialists HATE monopolies? Don't we already have anti-trust laws on the books?
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I once responded to a FB email with a link to the youtube video, Michael Rivero's All Wars are Banker's Wars
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5hfEBupAeo4
and the FB moderator refused the email reply with an email stating the link was "dangerous" and therefore delivery of my email reply was denied.
I replied the link was to a youtube video and just who was a Banker Expose dangerous to. This was ignored. I never had any further contact with FB afterwards and my acct has been dormant ever since.
Mike Adams at naturalnews pointed out that FB censored out activists family photos from anti-GMO food rallys.
FB is part of the NWO agenda promoting the Fed and toxic GMO foods. Most of the users are females emoting about their kids, pets or other light weight topics.
If you post anything critical of Monopoly Quack Medicine, vaccines or toxic fluoridated water, the captured sheeple come out of the woodwork to defend the
Establishment and gang up on you for spoiling their delusions and not being a team player.
Deep Capture cybernetics, eh!