Look at how @Facebook and Zuckerberg tried to screw progressive news outlets and @MotherJones. I am sure all the conservative anti-cancel and free-speech advocates will denounce this, right? https://t.co/wE0RjL2k1d pic.twitter.com/AfWgzrWu7M

— David Corn (@DavidCornDC) October 16, 2020

14/ @bendreyfuss, head of MoJo's social media team, wrote about what it means to be lied to (perhaps b/c they're unwittingly passing along lies of their bosses) by FB counterparts. But per what I'm learning, FB just lied to him, again, here: https://t.co/l64L797kBJ pic.twitter.com/69UVsflDXv

— Person Woman Man Camera TV (@ClaraJeffery) October 17, 2020

Prediction: if the Dems win, @facebook will reverse course and start pandering to the left. Craven leadership leads to craven behavior and a defensive line of 65 lobbyists to hold regulation at bay. https://t.co/Q43avII9g4

— Sue Halpern (@suehalpernVT) October 17, 2020

1/ I am enraged. Excellent reporting from WSJ's @dseetharaman and @EmilyGlazer finds that Facebook engineers—with sign-off from Zuckerberg himself—retooled their algorithm to throttle traffic to high-value progressive news orgs, @MotherJones IN PARTICULAR https://t.co/BeIYghE1xt pic.twitter.com/emQcZ832Iw

— Person Woman Man Camera TV (@ClaraJeffery) October 16, 2020

When FB tweaked its algorithm to minimize political news, executives were concerned about the outsize impact of the changes on the right, including The Daily Wire. So the changes were redesigned and left-leaning sites like @MotherJones were hit harder. https://t.co/x5U67Osv3G pic.twitter.com/rWv7NVquvy

— Dustin *Get Your Flu Shot* Volz (@dnvolz) October 16, 2020

This is an outrage. https://t.co/pShmIuCkRY

— Lydia Polgreen (@lpolgreen) October 16, 2020

“Mr. Zuckerberg has lectured Facebook’s broadly left-leaning staff about the need to understand that their user base is more conservative, and defended decisions not to remove posts from Mr. Trump that some employees argue violated Facebook’s rules.” https://t.co/ysXsRaQIsq

— Sahil Kapur (@sahilkapur) October 16, 2020

By repeatedly being hauled before Congress to testify before people who know nothing about technology for consecutive sham trials without consequence that successively gave his company more power to write it's own regulation then lobby heavily for it. /End https://t.co/jQkKgCwBne

— Claire Connelly (@_ClaireConnelly) October 16, 2020

“Listen nerds this only makes money cause I can sell the data of the top 100 million enraged uncles most likely to fall for a phishing scam so shut your lib mouths and get back to pushing Daily Stormer links.” https://t.co/vf2TtRiz2w

— John Leavitt ? (@LeavittAlone) October 16, 2020

So Jared Kushner appears to have a lot of Mark Zuckerberg’s ear according to this WSJ report. Neither know or care much about the public at-large based on their records. https://t.co/ji5pwlRUOW

— Jason Kint (@jason_kint) October 16, 2020

Thanks Mark! https://t.co/sjOYrLQdc3 pic.twitter.com/bQMCrMWZJD

— Patrick Caldwell (@patcaldwell) October 16, 2020

These Zuck stories always have this interesting language where Mark is "forging" relationships by meeting with conservatives while meeting with liberals is always seen as adversarial. https://t.co/T9kbF5PXt5

— Adam Smith (@asmith83) October 16, 2020

Guys like Zuck think billions is a lot - when his wealth is barely a zit on the ass of federal power. When it turns, it will turn very hard on him. https://t.co/c9tu8nLwnw

— Tom Watson (@tomwatson) October 16, 2020

facebook isn't even a social network, it's a far right media company that has melted the brains of a generation of people https://t.co/IHub3Pbc8U

— Rob (@robrousseau) October 16, 2020

What Zuck doesn’t seem to get is that his company has become a vehicle for racists, neo nazis and conspiracy theorists. His staff seems to be a lot smarter than he is. https://t.co/A0oNQD76Rl

— Howard Dean (@GovHowardDean) October 16, 2020

Please read this whole thread. @Facebook purposefully screwed over @MotherJones and other progressive media. You can fight back. See the appeal at the end of the thread. https://t.co/3XDKtrjHC7

— David Corn (@DavidCornDC) October 16, 2020

Seriously, can you imagine enjoying Ben Shapiro’s company? https://t.co/OR0ixJxKyE

— can (@can) October 16, 2020

As one of the original @OccupyDemocrats website crew, I witnessed that firsthand. Unsurprising. https://t.co/rpueLxnYem

— Grant Stern (@grantstern) October 16, 2020

Journalists begging large tech companies to more aggressively regulate speech on their platforms need to understand one probable outcome is the suppression of actual news organizations. None of this ends well.
https://t.co/KwHjpNDdDA

— Ross Barkan (@RossBarkan) October 17, 2020

Every time I think we have seen the limit of FB’s bad behavior, another day begins and we discover some new horror. Throttling @MotherJones? WTF is wrong with these people? https://t.co/rKqjjjaFMm

— Roger McNamee (@Moonalice) October 17, 2020

As I was saying, this is not an accident or a result of the right being more engaged on Facebook.

The company has built into its algorithms a bias in favor of conservative and far-right websites. It's rigged against the left. https://t.co/LFhWiPNKSC

— Nick Martin (@nickmartin) October 16, 2020

? WSJ confirms what we've suspected: Mark Zuckerberg directly intervened to prevent progressive news orgs like @CourierNewsroom from being included in Facebook's News Tab, while sharing meals with Ben Shapiro + exchanging texts with Jared Kushner ? https://t.co/Wrta7jNQvI

— Tara McGowan (@taraemcg) October 16, 2020

cool for facebook to take a news organization that does deep and serious investigative reporting and breaks real news and offer it up as a blood sacrifice to appease the people at the daily wire who don't even pretend try and put up lazy stories like this on their home page https://t.co/dCw067Rr1u pic.twitter.com/9ODXi4z9Uq

— Ali Breland (@alibreland) October 16, 2020

On the flip side, Breitbart had its independent newsguard rating dropped 20 points into a clear “Red” rating. I do wonder if this was enough to persuade Facebook news and product people they could ignore Facebook lobbyist Joel Kaplan. What a mess. https://t.co/0X3Irsflpq pic.twitter.com/5sUk2d2YUt

— Jason Kint (@jason_kint) October 17, 2020

This is a very consequential thread for journalists. If your newsroom or research organisation benefits from platform support, never forget the practices on the other side of that bargain : https://t.co/rIs3u5p9rI

— emily bell (@emilybell) October 16, 2020

This dinner sounds like my worst nightmare.https://t.co/gUauudBtUJ pic.twitter.com/ufFCOef6JV

— Thor Benson (@thor_benson) October 16, 2020

Apparently Mark Zuckerberg had Ben Shapiro and other conservative commentators over for dinner ? … what is he up to? https://t.co/mr6WDmtElp

— Khanoisseur ???‍♂️? (@Khanoisseur) October 16, 2020

Contrast this with claims FB and Twitter are inherently hostile to conservative outfits - dispute this week’s news, usually FB bends over backward not to alienate the right https://t.co/e63rhGpMWD

— David Folkenflik (@davidfolkenflik) October 17, 2020

Well this helps explain how Ben Shapiro is the most popular person on Facebook. https://t.co/UxPJzY5G5S pic.twitter.com/shSBcBT2R3

— Jacob Shamsian (@JayShams) October 16, 2020

Zuckerberg has helped the rise of fascism, part 3214829.

If you work at @Facebook, organize your co-workers to form a union. https://t.co/I78REc6mMU

— Popular Front 2020 (@maxberger) October 16, 2020

FB picked Ben Shapiro as winner, Mother Jones aa loser; https://t.co/ESDJBNTqJ9

— Eric Boehlert (@EricBoehlert) October 17, 2020

More evidence of the dismantling of our democracy via social media..... https://t.co/2BHcmdKbHs

— Nina Jankowicz (@wiczipedia) October 17, 2020

San Francisco-based staff at Facebook found to be actively blocking web traffic to San Francisco-based liberal publication @MotherJones -- a move personally approved by Facebook's CEO, who ironically lives just a few blocks from Mother Jones' EIC @ClaraJeffery in San Francisco. https://t.co/aKtrtR568q

— Wagner James Au (@slhamlet) October 16, 2020

Which one's the handler? https://t.co/nvM2odgDVs

— Greg Olear (@gregolear) October 16, 2020

This is tantamount to saying, "I know we're biased, but being biased is the way we can make the most money." https://t.co/UVZR7WmWQ8

— Ken Tremendous (@KenTremendous) October 16, 2020

"After the launch last year of Courier Newsroom, a network of eight progressive local-news sites that is part-owned by a left-leaning nonprofit with close ties to Democratic donors, Mr. Zuckerberg argued that Courier wasn’t a real news outlet" https://t.co/5z4wp2l8xh

— Mathew Ingram (@mathewi) October 16, 2020

Imagine thinking that Ben Shapiro is the guy with whom you should be having long political and philosophical discussions. https://t.co/ai58NC8oGg

— Miranda Yaver (@mirandayaver) October 16, 2020

New WSJ report confirms Mark Zuckerberg directly intervened against progressive news orgs and to help right-wing media on Facebook.

Meanwhile, he kept in close contract with Ben Shapiro, Jared Kushner, and others.

These decisions fuel the far-right more than FB’s algorithms. https://t.co/Ry40tjfHPd

— Tech Won't Save Us (@techwontsaveus) October 16, 2020

It's not just Republicans. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and her staff have refused to meet with Facebook representatives for months, sources tell @birnbaum_e https://t.co/potvOq2ROn

— Biz Carson (@bizcarson) October 16, 2020

“Mr. Zuckerberg invited Mr. Shapiro to dinner at his house last year, the people said.”https://t.co/EopnxER0YZ

— southpaw (@nycsouthpaw) October 16, 2020

Happy Friday, Facebook workers! Made it to the weekend! Woo. But Monday you have to go back to the company that does this: https://t.co/5lRLgokZ0Z

— Mike Monteiro? (@monteiro) October 17, 2020

"Mr. Zuckerberg has lectured Facebook’s broadly left-leaning staff about the need to understand that their user base is more conservative" https://t.co/FL2XTKxXNa

— Heather Timmons (@HeathaT) October 16, 2020

Would love to learn what makes the Daily Wire a more veritable fact checker than @CourierNewsroom other than Facebook wanting to cover its own ass, because it seems Facebook is just trying to cover its own ass and causing extraordinary harm in the processhttps://t.co/C2FbP0ubq5

— Zack DiGregorio (@zackdigregorio) October 16, 2020

Attention to any developers who wrote this code at @Facebook: I condemn your actions, and suggest that you review your life choices. https://t.co/J6K8T04UHJ

— Grady Booch (@Grady_Booch) October 17, 2020

So imagine if folks had believed Black employees and Black USERS and content. First

And not just distilled it down to “ algorithms”

It was RACISM . https://t.co/wVmYq4NPIQ

— ???Spooky Sydette the Dreaded Gorgon?? ? (@Blackamazon) October 16, 2020

In recent years, Zuckerberg has dined with Trump. He’s got a WhatsApp thread with Jared Kushner. He’s discussed rival tech companies TikTok and Apple with lawmakers & government officials, per sources. https://t.co/Z8v6CZQV5m

— Deepa Seetharaman (@dseetharaman) October 16, 2020

politics = power https://t.co/XGUfwYexv2

— drew olanoff (@yoda) October 16, 2020

"Mr. Zuckerberg is now an active political operator. He has dined with President Trump, talks regularly with White House senior adviser Jared Kushner, and has pressed lawmakers and officials to scrutinize rivals including TikTok and Apple Inc." https://t.co/4MxXnokBrO

— Anthony DeRosa ? (@Anthony) October 16, 2020

Rare nugget that actually deserves the ? emoji, from @dseetharaman https://t.co/gBswMXxbAE pic.twitter.com/9VViRtkfFJ

— Nick Confessore (@nickconfessore) October 16, 2020

New: It was once nigh impossible to get Mark Zuckerberg interested in politics. But over the last few years, as Facebook has lurched from one controversy to the next, he’s built himself into something of a political operator. Story w/ @EmilyGlazer. https://t.co/Z8v6CZQV5m

— Deepa Seetharaman (@dseetharaman) October 16, 2020

SCOOP from @birnbaum_e: "House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and her staff have refused to meet with Facebook representatives for months, two sources told Protocol. Aides said that other House Democrats have also barred their staffs from meeting with the company." https://t.co/WF5q3bw8bR

— issie lapowsky (@issielapowsky) October 16, 2020

NEW: For this piece, I chatted with a ton of aides about Facebook's deteriorated reputation on Capitol Hill. I learned Nancy Pelosi and her staff have refused to meet with FB for months. And that's only the start of their reputational damage.https://t.co/G1HHDcm1R4

— Emily Birnbaum (@birnbaum_e) October 16, 2020

Facebook’s Zuckerberg urged White House to crack down on Apple https://t.co/Ea1luP8Tmm

— Philip Elmer-DeWitt (@philiped) October 17, 2020