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By Russ Read The White House aide responsible for fabricating the narrative on the Iran deal also had a hand in spinning the events following the attack on a U.S. consulate in Benghazi, an email reveals. Deputy National Security Adviser for Communication Ben Rhodes appears to have outlined the administration’s strategy to handling the attacks…
By Scott Greer Breitbart writer and internet provacteur Milo Yiannopoulos is challenging Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg to a debate over reports the social media giant suppresses conservative news outlets within its trending news feature. In a video released Friday, Yiannopoulos called upon Zuckerberg to explain why Facebook has an apparent problem censoring material its administrators…
Right wing websites are up in arms this week after Gizmodo broke a story detailing how Facebook allegedly suppresses conservative news sites and stories. While conservative sites have been up in arms, many libertarians have rushed to defend Facebook; after all, a private company may do what it wants with its own site. Right? Not…
Next Monday, May 16th, Penn Jillette will moderate the final Libertarian Party presidential primary debate in Las Vegas. Former Governor Gary Johnson, cybersecurity guru John McAfee, and TLR founder Austin Petersen will debate on a variety of topics ranging from the war on drugs to censorship. There are tickets available to attend the event. All proceeds…
By Jonah Bennett Tom Stocky, the Facebook executive who runs Trending Topics at the social media company, which is currently facing allegations of censoring conservative news outlets, has donated $5,400 to Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton. Public records at OpenSecrets.org show that Tom and his wife Avni Stocky each donated $2,700 to Clinton in October, 2015,…
A presently trending news story that you’re not going to see on your Facebook feed is that the site has been filtering which news stories you see! Gizmodo ran an investigative article yesterday disclosing their interviews with Facebook employees who were “news curators.” These curators are responsible for monitoring which items pop up on the social media…
by Lina Bryce Someone out there wants Bernie Sanders supporters to really feel the ‘burn,’ by creating a graphic that teaches them how to make their own “Bernie Sanders Glowsticks.” Except that these instructions are not for making glow-sticks; they’re instructions for how to make a deadly chlorine bomb. According to a Yahoo article reporting on…
By Blake Neff The Philippines has just completed a momentous presidential election that ended with it electing the country’s equivalent of Donald Trump. An unofficial count of the Monday night’s vote showed Rodrigo Duterte of the PDP–Laban party easily defeating his rivals, with Duterte finishing about 6 million votes ahead of his nearest rival. Barring some stunning…
By Rachel Stoltzfoos Facebook staff manually inserted the “Black Lives Matter” topic into its trending news feed in order to artificially boost the movement’s popularity and in turn boost the Facebook brand, according to a former employee who curated news for the site. “Facebook got a lot of pressure about not having a trending topic for…
By Jonah Bennett A former journalist who used to work at Facebook has revealed that news curators at the social media company regularly blocked conservative stories from trending. In an interview with Gizmodo published Monday morning, this former journalist said that stories about CPAC, Mitt Romney and Rand Paul, among other topics, were not allowed…