Just an alert — Media Matters reports:
Facebook has reportedly named Jennifer Williams, who was a longtime Fox & Friends senior producer, to head video strategy for the social media giant’s forthcoming Facebook News. As Facebook executives plan a shift in the way the nation consumes news that will almost certainly impact the 2020 presidential election, they are staffing up with an 18-year veteran of the right-wing cable network that effectively serves as President Donald Trump’s personal mouthpiece.
While Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg has been holding cozy dinners with right-wing media figures and meeting with Trump in the White House, his company has stocked its powerful Washington, D.C., office with Republican political operatives, hired a former Republican senator to produce a report on Facebook’s alleged liberal bias, encouraged its fact-checking consortium to partner with Tucker Carlson’s toxic Daily Caller website, commissioned research on opponents that was steeped in anti-Semitic tropes, and altered and selectively enforced its ad policies in ways that will likely benefit Trump’s reelection campaign. Just last week, it was reported that Facebook was allowing a major Trump super PAC to run ads featuring a lie that the platform's own fact-checking partners had debunked.
I am unsurprised that Zuckerberg has aligned himself with the party of greed, eager to use his Frankenstein monster to buttress the Republican agenda. His entire business existence stands as an argument for greater regulation of the “airwaves.” We cannot continue to allow steaming propaganda to be distributed as “news.”
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