8chan/8kun QResearch Posts (2)
#11589355 at 2020-11-11 10:27:14 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #14797: Eleven Eleven Edition
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At first, QAnon was a largely US phenomenon, with limited penetration in the UK. The pandemic, however, has changed that. According to recent polling by Hope Not Hate, one in four people in Britain now agree with some of the basic conspiracies it has promulgated: that "secret satanic cults exist and include influential elites", and that "elites in Hollywood, politics, the media" are secretly engaging in large-scale child trafficking and abuse. Nearly a third believe there is "a single group of people who secretly control events and rule the world together", and almost a fifth say that Covid-19 was intentionally released as part of a "depopulation plan".
For Philip, trapped at home and searching for an explanation for a global pandemic, when all he could find was a void of information, QAnon was fertile territory. He already spent most of his time while furloughed on his phone looking for answers. What was the real reason for everyone being forced inside? How did the virus start? Who started it?
"In his mind, there had to be a reason for it," Rachel says. Inevitably, his search took in Facebook, where the site's recommendation algorithms were quick to connect him to individuals on similar quests. "Ultimately, it led to him becoming brainwashed," she says.
For many, the existence of Facebook - and its sister products, including WhatsApp, Instagram and Messenger - has been a lifeline in this period. The social network has always prided itself on connecting people, and when the ability to socialise in person, or even leave the house, was curtailed, Facebook was there to pick up the slack.
But those same services have also enabled the creation of what one professional factchecker calls a "perfect storm for misinformation". And with real-life interaction suppressed to counter the spread of the virus, it's easier than ever for people to fall deep down a rabbit hole of deception, where the endpoint may not simply be a decline in vaccination rates or the election of an unpleasant president, but the end of consensus reality as we know it. What happens when your basic understanding of the world is no longer the same as your neighbour's? And can Facebook stop that fate coming to us all?
Since its foundation, in Mark Zuckerberg's Harvard dorm room, Facebook has tackled its share of challenges. Some have stayed fairly constant: no social network gets many users without needing to tackle spam, for instance, though the Facebook of 2004 would struggle to remove the 3.3bn junk posts that the company took down in the first half of this year.
Others are unique to a company with 2.7 billion users that operates in almost every country in the world. Facebook has become a centre point of civil society. It's more than just a place to share photos and plan parties: it's where people read news, arrange protests, engage in debate, play games and watch bands. And that means that all the problems of civil society are now problems for Facebook: bullying, sexual abuse, political polarisation and conspiracy theorists all existed before the social network, but all took on new contours as they moved online.
And this year they really moved online. As the initial lockdown was imposed across much of the world, people's relationship to the internet, and to Facebook in particular, evolved rapidly. Stuck socially distancing, people turned to social networking to fill an emotional void.
Suddenly, the company found itself staring at unprecedented demands. "Our busiest time of the year is New Year's Eve," says Nicola Mendelsohn, Facebook's vice-president for Europe, the Middle East and Africa, over a Zoom call from her London home. "And we were seeing the equivalent of New Year's Eve every single day." It was, she says, the inevitable result of having "almost the entire planet at home at the same time".
Rachel agrees. "I believe the lockdown played a huge part in altering people's perception of reality," she says. When Covid restrictions came in, the rules of social interaction were rewritten. We suddenly stopped meeting friends in pubs, at the coffee point or by the school gates, and our lives moved online. And for many of us, "online" meant "on Facebook".
I first heard Rachel's story from QAnonCasualties, a forum on the social news site Reddit where she, and thousands like her, have congregated to seek advice and support after their loved ones fell into the cult. Her first post, in July this year, was titled: "I've finally reached the end of my tether." She described a marriage of 25 years, and a family with four grownup children, being shattered by a husband who had sunk "further and further into this conspiracy".
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2020/nov/11/how-2020-transformed-big-tech-the-story-of-facebook-qanon-and-the-worlds-slackening-grip-on-reality
#10674449 at 2020-09-16 23:07:44 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #13661: Ten To The Hour - Disney Next? Edition
Some Advertisers Returning To Facebook After Boycott Over Hateful Content
Facebook Vice President Nicola Mendelsohn said Wednesday that some advertisers that boycotted the social media platform for not adequately combating hate speech have since returned.
Mendelsohn did not name the advertisers but told Bloomberg News the announcement comes after increased efforts to manage content, including the ability to remove "about 95%" of hate speech that reviewers catch before it's reported.
"A lot of the advertisers have come back, and they've come back because they can see the efforts that we've been making," Mendelsohn said.
Some of the world's top brands and products like General Motors, Hershey's, and Lego cut spending with Facebook this year. A movement, with the hashtag StopHateForProfit, organized the boycott by pushing companies to stop advertising on Facebook due to perceived weak content-regulation practices.
For brands like Adidas, which recently returned to advertising on Facebook, there is the implication that Facebook has turned a corner on past practices.
"We will continue to expect greater transparency and action from all of our partners," a spokesperson for Adidas said in August.
For Facebook, any defections from notable advertisers could mean a serious financial setback, with the top 100 advertisers contributing 16% of the platform's $18.7 billion revenue in the second quarter this year, the New York Times reported.
Meanwhile, there may still be lingering damage to Facebook's reputation from boycotting advertisers.
"What could really hurt Facebook is the long-term effect of its perceived reputation and the association with being viewed as a publisher of 'hate speech' and other inappropriate content," Stephen Hahn-Griffiths, an executive at data insights company RepTrak, wrote in a July post.
https://www.ibtimes.com/some-advertisers-returning-facebook-after-boycott-over-hateful-content-3046952
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#136115 at 2024-01-16 13:42:00 (UTC+1)
QR Bunker General #418 Monuments to the American Revolution Edition
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https://www.c-span.org/video/?532634-3/james-antle-discusses-iowa-caucus-results-campaign-2024&playEvent
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#136090 at 2024-01-15 13:44:00 (UTC+1)
QR Bunker General #418 Monuments to the American Revolution Edition
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https://www.weforum.org/events/world-economic-forum-annual-meeting-2024/programme
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