This one goes straight to the “Yeah, right” file.
Excerpted from Ken Meyers’ article at mediaite.com:
Facebook is chalking some controversial content blocking up as an “accident” following reports that the social media site was forbidding links to theWikiLeaks data dump on the Democratic National Committee.
WikiLeaks created a political firestorm over the weekend after they published hacked emails showing Democratic Party officials discussing ways to undermine Bernie Sanders‘ presidential run. As the story developed however, WikiLeaks took notice of a trend on Twitter, where Facebook users posted screenshots of the error messages they received when they tried to post certain links referencing the scandal.
Yeah, right.
Just an accident. Just like the other Hillary-benefiting facebook “accidents” I have been chronicling over the past weeks.
Let me use the example I use all the time to determine whether someone is accident prone or there is another explanation:
-If the cashier at a place you go to for lunch makes ten mistakes with your change each year, five in the lunch place’s favor and five in yours, the cashier is accident-prone.
-If all ten mistakes are in the lunch place’s favor, the cashier is a thief.
How many “accidents” do we have to count at facebook – or twitter, or politico.com (all three have been cited just this week), among others, before we stop pretending they are accidental?
