What the hell was with AOC, trying to come off like Ed Concannon, as played by James Mason in The Verdict with Mark Zuckerberg yesterday? A question as phrased was, essentially, “would you run an ad by a Democrat saying his opponent supported the Green New Deal”? Total bullshit question. First off, if there is a Republican who supports it, why would they NOT run it? Obviously her implication was that no Republican would ever do such a thing, so she wanted to know if Facebook would run an ad with “disinformation” in it. But no, that would be too simple a way to pose the question, now wouldn’t it? Why be clear and concise when you can obfuscate in an attempt to make someone look like a fool?
In other moments, Zuckerberg stated that an ad giving a wrong election date would be taken down, but when he tried to explain that he is of the opinion that in a democracy, he believes people should be able to judge the character of politicians themselves, she cut him off. In fairness, he was able to get his answer out but, Concannon, excuse me, Ocasio-Cortez, clearly wasn’t interested in the answer. Despite this obvious distinction, she was able say with a straight face that there was a simple yes or no answer to her question about taking down ads with lies in them. Finally, in a moment top-flight propogandists would be proud of, she waited until the end of her five minutes to pose a question about ongoing dinner parties with far-right hosts, where white supremacy is evidently made out to be a hoax, a rather long-winded question that Zuckerberg didn’t quite get. But no matter, the question was left to hang in the air as, oh well! she was just out of time.
To be clear, this is not about whether Zuckerberg’s/Facebook’s policies are the best ones. I am not aware of them in detail. This is about the left’s ever-increasingly taking up the tactics of the right for political gain. Don’t get me started on Rachel Maddow for the last year or so! AOC should be better than this, and a few months ago, I think she was. This is not the right path for her to be going down.
Is there a Republican who supports the Green New Deal? I’d be very surprised if there is, and even if you can find one, the point on her question is still pretty clear and obvious. I’m not really seeing how this is obfuscatory on AOC’s behalf.
Unfortunately for humanity there are lots and lots of really stupid people out there who believe any damn thing they see on Facebook. I will later watch the AOC clip, and perhaps chime in again once I am more familiar with this. If it’s early enough I will still be sober and more likely to be civil.
I clicked the AOC/Zuckerberg link in the OP, and it went to Faux news. I watched this 5-1/2 minute video of the testimony from PBS Newshour instead.
Eh, she was trying to establish a line between what ads Facebook would publish and what they wouldn’t with respect to the inclusion of misinformation and lies in those ads. After watching the video, I can declare that my opinion of her in general, including her conduct during this questioning leave me proud to know that my tax dollars go toward paying her salary.
She really is rather skilled at questioning. Which is why the right is so fascinated/afraid of her, which is why Fox covers her so much, in their own inimitable spun and edited way.
AOC’s questioning was entirely on-point and was probably the best of all the Democrats on display yesterday. Zuckerberg was evasive as fuck. What the fuck are you smoking?
And what if multiple stories from seemingly different sources reporting the same lie show up on your social media feeds? That’s not very difficult to arrange.
After some BS humor site ran a “Pope Endorses trump” article, my wife was inundated from her FB friends about it. I knew from the get that it was bogus, not because the Pope wouldn’t endorse trump, but because the Pope wouldn’t endorse anybody because he’s, I don’t know, the freakin’ Pope. She had the great pleasure of linking to a site debunking this obvious (to anyone with at least two firing neurons) bit of balderdash.
Meanwhile, trump is wondering if the Pope will endorse him again in 2020.
That works if sources are generally truthful. If they don’t need to tell the truth, all you can expect from multiple sources is a random collection of lies.
The press and media are afforded great legal protections. I don’t think it’s too much to ask for a certain amount of truthfulness from them.
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Watched snippets of that on Twitter the other day. It fascinates me on a psychological level how people can see totally different things when it comes to AOC.
I had second-hand humiliation watching her obviously rehearsed pea-brain self question Zuckerberg about complete shit for the cameras and her soundbites & clips.
She perfectly embodies and personifies the woke millennial liberal virtue-signaling liar.
And she clearly does not understand or see the irony in her line of questioning.
It is fascinating all right, how when some woman actually researches her stuff before questioning someone that will allow misinformation to be distributed, is disparaged.