INSANITY Facebook Labels Canning And Gardening Groups As Too Prepared

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Facebook Labels Canning And Gardening Groups As Too Prepared - Citizens Journal

Analysis by Dr. Joseph Mercola Facebook labels posts about preparedness or self-reliance as extremist ideas, warning that "violent groups try to manipulate your anger and disappointment" and offering confidential support to protect yourself and others A two-part film in 2019 investigated the...
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Analysis by Dr. Joseph Mercola

  • Facebook labels posts about preparedness or self-reliance as extremist ideas, warning that “violent groups try to manipulate your anger and disappointment” and offering confidential support to protect yourself and others
  • A two-part film in 2019 investigated the influence that Facebook has over the democracy of nations and the lack of privacy parameters on the millions of users’ data siphoned and used to influence elections
  • In a prepandemic era Facebook had also doubled down on vaccine censorship to protect the financial interests of drug companies whose income relies on people’s desire for one more vaccine; in 2019 the World Health Organization listed “vaccine hesitancy” as one of the top 10 global health threats
  • The White House press secretary admitted in a briefing that the administration is involved in illegal activities and violation of First Amendment rights when they are alerting social media companies to posts and accounts the White House believes are sharing “misinformation” about COVID
In July 2020, Facebook announced they would add labels to posts from politicians “to protect the election and promote healthy civic engagement.”1 The labels were supposed to identify content Facebook thought was inflammatory, misinformation or lies, without removing the post.

Why Facebook felt they should “moderate” free speech that was not incendiary or promoted violence is a question for another time. According to left-leaning Media Matters for America,2 while the media giant continues to use labels on posts, a study of Trump’s posts found that those that were labeled as possible misinformation had significantly more interactions than those that were not labeled.

In other words, the labels appeared to engage more readers. Facebook began testing a new label in July 2021. These labels don’t just identify potential “misinformation,” but go even further to prompt readers — asking if their friends are becoming extremists.3 Historically, extreme ideas have proven to advance society or drag it back into the Dark Ages. Consider:

  • Book burning by the Nazis to ensure the next generation did not have access to thoughts contrary to Hitler4
  • The idea that humans can fly, leading to the Wright brothers inventing the airplane
  • That electricity could be harnessed, with visionaries like Benjamin Franklin and Thomas Edison working to find ways to have light in the dark
  • That the medical establishment didn’t entertain the idea of handwashing to stop the spread of disease until 20 years of data showed the practice lowered rates of infection5
The thread that runs through these extreme ideas is that censorship influences the way society thinks and therefore changes the outcome. Had the German people been allowed to think for themselves, an entire country may not have been swayed by the propaganda of one man. If the medical community were open to the idea that their behavior was killing people, they may have saved thousands.

Of course, there are extreme ideas that should not be entertained. People will never be able to fly without assistance or walk into fire without protection. Yet, without censorship, these ideas die a natural death. It’s only through debate and sharing information that the truth wins out. And the truth is the only foundation on which society can realistically and confidently continue.

Facebook Labels Gardeners as Possible Extremists
CNN reported that Facebook prompts are being shown to some individuals, cautioning them that they may know someone who is becoming an extremist. Other prompts are letting people know they’ve been exposed to extremist content. This is part of Facebook’s Redirect Initiative.6 Facebook spokesperson Andy Stone told CNN:7

“This test is part of our larger work to assess ways to provide resources and support to people on Facebook who may have engaged with or were exposed to extremist content or may know someone who is at risk. We are partnering with NGOs and academic experts in this space and hope to have more to share in the future.”
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In the past, Facebook has been criticized for not acting on content that encourages people toward violence. Yet, these warnings are also attached to posts sharing information about seemingly innocuous subjects, like buying food. According to CNET:8

“One of the alerts, shared on Twitter, asks: ‘Are you concerned that someone you know is becoming an extremist? We care about preventing extremism on Facebook. Others in your situation have received confidential support.’
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Another alert reads: ‘Violent groups try to manipulate your anger and disappointment. You can take action now to protect yourself and others.’”
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As an image saved on archive.is from Reddit shows,9 Facebook is labeling those selling home-grown beef as “too prepared.” Compare the extremist views of preparedness to the Forbes10 report August 17, 2021, that the Taliban would have control of the Afghan social media accounts.

However, it doesn’t stop there. Twitter posts are reporting screenshots of canning and gardening groups that are also being asked, “Are you concerned that someone you know is too prepared? We care about preventing extremism on Facebook. Others in your situation have received confidential support.”

In other words, Facebook is labeling people who are preparing their food supply as potential extremists, but in August 2021, the social giant was fine with extremist groups like the Taliban taking over Afghan social media accounts.11 Twenty-four hours later, though, Reuters12 reported Facebook had a ban on the Taliban posting on the social media platform. According to vice president of content policy Monika Bickert:13

“They will not be allowed while they are prescribed by the U.S. law and even if they were not prescribed by U.S. law, we would have to do a policy analysis on whether or not they nevertheless violate our dangerous organizations policy.”
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Bickert is referring to the fact that the U.S. has soft-pedaled their stance on the group as they are not on the U.S. State Department’s list of Foreign Terrorist Organizations.14 Since the U.S. has not classified them as terrorists, they can enter negotiations15 with a group whose actions historically have been less than trustworthy.16,17,18

Facebook’s definition of extremist ideas apparently conforms to the ideologies of the World Economic Forum (WEF), of which Mark Zuckerberg, co-founder and CEO of Facebook, is a member.19

For example, while some consider a guaranteed basic income paid by the government to all citizens as radical and dystopian, according to a charismatic presentation Zuckerberg made during a commencement speech at Harvard,20 moving the economic platform of the world to universal basic income is not an extremist move.

Instead, it’s something to be explored and tested. As reported by the WEF, Zuckerberg explained that “too few people had the opportunity to try out new ideas — like building his world-conquering platform.”21 This is in line with the WEF’s mission to reinvent the future22 by resetting the global economic platform.23

Facebook Activities Called to Question in Early 2019
In late 2018, PBS’s “Frontline” released a two-part film called “The Facebook Dilemma,”24,25 in which James Jacoby investigated the influence the social media giant had over the democracy of nations, and the lack of privacy parameters that allowed for tens of millions of users’ data to be siphoned and used to influence U.S. elections.

During 2019 Bloomberg26 reported Facebook was transcribing bits of audio they had recorded from users’ phones. This explained how many were seeing targeted ads after just speaking about a product or service out loud. Further research revealed even more disturbingly, Android apps were taking screen shots of your smartphone and sending the information to third parties.27

According to The Guardian,28 in 2018 Facebook had 40 journalists who worked as fact checkers located across the globe. They were split in their opinion about their fact-checking relationship with Facebook. The Guardian quoted one who said:29

“Why should we trust Facebook when it’s pushing the same rumors that its own fact checkers are calling fake news? It’s worth asking how do they treat stories about George Soros on the platform knowing they specifically pay people to try to link political enemies to him? Working with Facebook makes us look bad.”
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Some journalists spoke with a reporter from The Guardian, who said they told him,30 “Facebook’s hiring of a PR firm that used an antisemitic narrative to discredit critics — fueling the same kind of propaganda fact checkers regularly debunk — should be a deal-breaker.”

The allegations into Facebook’s PR activities came after the European Parliament called for a privacy audit when it was revealed that Facebook allowed Cambridge Analytica to misuse 87 million users’ data to influence election results.31 The breach cost Facebook a mere $643,000 for the role it played, which they paid to the U.K.’s Information Commissioner’s office.

Facebook’s reported revenue for the first quarter in 2021 was $26.17 billion, up 48%, due in part from higher-priced advertising.32 Although the fine was a drop in the bucket when compared against Facebook’s revenue, it was the maximum possible penalty that could be imposed under the Data Protection Act 1998. Under the new laws passed in 2018, the maximum fine could have been $22 million.33

The reporter from The Guardian wrote that one of the fact checkers, Brooke Binkowski, shared how Facebook influenced their work, sometimes to protect their advertisers, writing:34

“… it appeared that Facebook was pushing reporters to prioritize debunking misinformation that affected Facebook advertisers, which she thought crossed a line: ‘You’re not doing journalism any more. You’re doing propaganda.’”
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This is inline with current activities, since extremist content that shares preparedness, self-reliance, and evidence-based data about viral spread, masking or shot programs may have an impact on the push toward the “Great Reset.”

Facebook’s Prepandemic Campaign Against Vaccine Information
Facebook’s campaign against people sharing information about vaccination programs had grown in strength even before the COVID-19 genetic therapy shot program. As I reported in early 2019, it was likely driven to protect the interests of their pharmaceutical advertisers.35,36,37

While many believe vaccination programs are not lucrative, consider Pfizer’s Prevnar 13 vaccine, which is supposed to protect against common strains of pneumonia and made three times more money than Viagra in 2015.38

The rising profits from Prevnar 13 in 2015 were thanks to the U.S. government’s recommendation to start using it in adults over 65, and not just in children.39 As noted in the Financial Times,40 “… the success of Prevnar shows [vaccines] can be as lucrative as any drug.” So, if you have forums on Facebook sharing true experiences about vaccine side effects, you can see why Pfizer wouldn’t want those comments left there.

When you have a profitable business, you want to promote sustained growth. This means nurturing and protecting your products and services. That’s normal in the world of business. What is not normal is enlisting the government to mandate the use of your product while simultaneously preventing sharing bad reviews that impact sales or force you to improve the safety or effectiveness of the product.

So, what was happening in the vaccine industry before 2020 has continued during the pandemic. The push to censor negative press about vaccines on Facebook has been outright shocking. The justification is that “misinformation” prevents people from making sound medical decisions.

It’s the same justification being used by Facebook to label any information about the COVID vaccine41 as false or cautions people planting their own gardens against “extremist thoughts,” while offering “confidential support.”42

Government Asking Social Media to Ban Research
Christina Parks, Ph.D., has her degree in cellular and molecular biology. She testifies before the Michigan House on Bill 4471, which seeks to prohibit vaccinations as a condition of employment in Michigan. You likely have read or heard the information she shares about COVID, flu and DTap vaccines if you’ve been reading my newsletter.
Yet, the science she’s quoting is the very information that Facebook, and the U.S. government would like to ban from social media sites. To manipulate and influence your behavior, it is essential that you do not understand the science behind viral pathogens and the vaccines that hope to control those infections — and that means stopping you from learning scientific truths by any means possible.
July 16, 2021, during a White House briefing43 press secretary Jen Psaki admitted that the Biden Administration is alerting social media companies to posts and accounts that the White House believes is peddling “misinformation” about COVID injections. This is illegal and a violation of First Amendment rights. During the briefing she cited the “Disinformation Dozen” report released by the Center for Countering Digital Hate (CCDH).44,45
The report claims that 65% of anti-vaccine content on Facebook and Twitter comes from 12 individuals, including me. After this “disinformation” report was virally spread, the truth was revealed in an August 18, 2021, report from Bickert at Facebook, setting the record straight, and in the process demolished the CCDH’s claims. The report revealed:46
“In fact, these 12 people are responsible for about just 0.05% of all views of vaccine-related content on Facebook. This includes all vaccine-related posts they’ve shared, whether true or false, as well as URLs associated with these people.”
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As the image on Reddit47 aptly demonstrates, Facebook now promotes the idea that growing food and buying food from farmers may make you “too prepared.” They will warn your friends they have been exposed to extremist ideas and can receive confidential support to ensure they don’t follow suit.
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Kathy in FL

Kathy in FL

Administrator
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Zuke probably doesn't have as much power and control as he thinks these days. The deep state or whatever the heck you want to call it has gotten ahold of the entire shebang and manipulation goes forth and all the little sheeple think it was their idea to begin with.

Pencil pushers can be serious crazy control freaks and they live to make other people think they are smarter and more powerful than they are.
 
lakemom

lakemom

Veteran Member
bw said:
The person in charge of Facebook censorship doesn't know the difference between prescribe and proscribe? Remarkable.
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Unfortunately, not all that uncommon any more. I've known LOTS of "college educated" individuals who don't have a clue when it comes to differences like that, as well as sentence structure, grammar, or punctuation. God help you if you should bring up the subject of the Oxford comma.

ETA: not that everyone should necessarily know what that is, but if you're majoring in any type of English/writing/teaching degree, you should.
 
Sicario

Sicario

The Executor
Kathy in FL said:
Zuke probably doesn't have as much power and control as he thinks these days. The deep state or whatever the heck you want to call it has gotten ahold of the entire shebang and manipulation goes forth and all the little sheeple think it was their idea to begin with.

Pencil pushers can be serious crazy control freaks and they live to make other people think they are smarter and more powerful than they are.
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Fu*kerberg is as much in control of Facebook as Biden is in control of our government. Mere figureheads. Puppets. In fact, the same entity controls both.
 
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TFergeson

Non Solum Simul Stare
rob0126 said:
I suppose in bizarro world, someone upkeeping their garden, tending to their farm animals, drinking their own well/rain water, minding their own business, is some sort of threat. :shr:
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Its more than that. Its because subconsciously, they know that they are slaves and you are free. You shine light in the system, and bring that nagging voice in the back of their head. And that scares them. In order to soothe their conscience and go back to sleep, you need to be dealt with.
 
lakemom

lakemom

Veteran Member
pauldingbabe said:
There are other ways than this?

Huh.
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The way they teach it now...yes. i was a guest speaker in a paralegal studies class. Guess which subject I was actually requested to speak about. Yup...the Oxford comma. When I broached the subject, they all groaned & rolled their eyes. When I cited cases that were decided because of the use of and lack thereof, they started paying attention. :lol:
 
Sleeping Cobra

Sleeping Cobra

TB Fanatic
If it wasn't for the internet / Social Media, the American people would have no clue what is going on since the Main Stream Media lies all the time. Don't let anyone drag you down. "Keep on preppin".
 
Griz3752

Griz3752

Retired, practising Curmudgeon
hunybee said:
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Facebook Labels Canning And Gardening Groups As Too Prepared - Citizens Journal

Analysis by Dr. Joseph Mercola Facebook labels posts about preparedness or self-reliance as extremist ideas, warning that "violent groups try to manipulate your anger and disappointment" and offering confidential support to protect yourself and others A two-part film in 2019 investigated the...
www.citizensjournal.us www.citizensjournal.us

Analysis by Dr. Joseph Mercola

  • Facebook labels posts about preparedness or self-reliance as extremist ideas, warning that “violent groups try to manipulate your anger and disappointment” and offering confidential support to protect yourself and others
  • A two-part film in 2019 investigated the influence that Facebook has over the democracy of nations and the lack of privacy parameters on the millions of users’ data siphoned and used to influence elections
  • In a prepandemic era Facebook had also doubled down on vaccine censorship to protect the financial interests of drug companies whose income relies on people’s desire for one more vaccine; in 2019 the World Health Organization listed “vaccine hesitancy” as one of the top 10 global health threats
  • The White House press secretary admitted in a briefing that the administration is involved in illegal activities and violation of First Amendment rights when they are alerting social media companies to posts and accounts the White House believes are sharing “misinformation” about COVID
In July 2020, Facebook announced they would add labels to posts from politicians “to protect the election and promote healthy civic engagement.”1 The labels were supposed to identify content Facebook thought was inflammatory, misinformation or lies, without removing the post.

Why Facebook felt they should “moderate” free speech that was not incendiary or promoted violence is a question for another time. According to left-leaning Media Matters for America,2 while the media giant continues to use labels on posts, a study of Trump’s posts found that those that were labeled as possible misinformation had significantly more interactions than those that were not labeled.

In other words, the labels appeared to engage more readers. Facebook began testing a new label in July 2021. These labels don’t just identify potential “misinformation,” but go even further to prompt readers — asking if their friends are becoming extremists.3 Historically, extreme ideas have proven to advance society or drag it back into the Dark Ages. Consider:
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Just guessing but probably fundamentally driven by the fact FB can't monetise those groups any further
 
O

Old Gray Mare

TB Fanatic
Kathy in FL said:
Zuke probably doesn't have as much power and control as he thinks these days.
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Asked the younger generation about their opinion of The Book of Faces. Was given the look, luckily without the eye roll. It was explained to me that FB is for "old people" to share pictures of their grandkids. They didn't use it with the implication they wouldn't be caught dead on it.
 
vector7

vector7

Dot Collector
Sicario said:
Fu*kerberg is as much in control of Facebook as Biden is in control of our government. Mere figureheads. Puppets. In fact, the same entity controls both.
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Sleeping Cobra said:
More people are involved than just Zuckerberg.
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Kathy in FL said:
Zuke probably doesn't have as much power and control as he thinks these days. The deep state or whatever the heck you want to call it has gotten ahold of the entire shebang
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The MSM has been subverted for decades. Over 90% are in lock step with the liberal leftist agenda of the DS.

Social Media has been working with Intel agencies for decades but has been forced to clamp down over the last several years by the exact same dark DS entites running JoeBama, DNC and MSM.
vector7 said:
Obama's former team is back in the executive branch. (Obama 3rd term)

The DS never left the weaponized federal agencies under Obama's 2 terms.

The DNC/MSM/BT fought the Trump Administration tooth and nail before he ever got onto office to sabotage any traction to get away from the former direction we were headed.

They spied and investigated him under false pretenses and destroyed any strong loyal key members of his team they could to wear him down. It was full blown Coup as there was never any peaceful transfer of power from the Obama Administration, including 2 baseless impeachments.

Trump actually was pretty rescelliant in getting a lot done inspite of so many obstacles thrown at him from so many directions, including GOP establishment RINOs.

Here's the Godfather of the DNC/DS, (outlawed in many countries for being responsible for many past political Revolutions and Coups) commenting on Trump and his supporters in Davos January 2018.
RT 44secs
https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1393408014464454657
View: https://twitter.com/LadyPie6/status/1393408014464454657?s=19

And again in Davos January 2020 implying a Revolutionary situation will be happening leading up to 2020 election.
RT 11secs
https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1266667139353710592
View: https://twitter.com/Woj_Pawelczyk/status/1266667139353710592?s=19

Soros has been very vocal in Davos 2018 and 2020 pushing BT hard to become fully weaponized against Trump and his supporters before the 2020 election inspite of their user agreements.

2018:
www.cnbc.com

George Soros: It's 'only a matter of time' before dominance of Facebook and Google is 'broken'

Billionaire investor George Soros bashed Facebook and Google in a speech at the World Economic Forum in Davos, according to a transcript obtained by CNBC.
www.cnbc.com www.cnbc.com
2020:
www.businessinsider.com

George Soros says President Trump is conspiring with Facebook to get reelected

At the World Economic Forum in Davos, Soros said "Facebook will work together to re-elect Trump and Trump will work to protect Facebook."
www.businessinsider.com www.businessinsider.com
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Soros creating RINOS...
vector7 said:
Flashbacks:

Records: Soros Fund Execs Funded Paul Ryan, Marco Rubio, Jeb Bush, John McCain, John Kasich, Lindsey Graham in 2016
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PghPanther

PghPanther

Has No Life - Lives on TB
Most people I knew growing up had gardens and canned food with a storage cellar........it was common knowledge that with extreme snow falls, flooding or bad storms that getting food from the supply chain could be interrupted for days or even weeks so it was prudent to do such things.............as it should be today.

As far as Zuckerman is concerned and his stating such things about such prudent behaviors..................I have only one comment.

Every......single............time!
 
wvstuck

wvstuck

Only worry about what you can control!
So, a lot of us will be snug and warm eating our home grown, home canned foods while the censors at Farcebook wish they could find a post on how to preserve food.

By now anyone with situational awareness would not be joining such groups on social media, they should have already started graying out and stepping back from the easy targeting of social media. Sure, read funny memes, like your families posts, laugh at funny stories, but avoid likes on anything political, government, covid related, and don't join groups that allow them to further profile you.
 
Dobbin

Dobbin

Faithful Steed
Owner must be REALLY radical.

He paid off a fifteen year mortgage after twelve years simply for the peace of mind.

The modus today is to buy a house with someone elses money, and then keep yourself in hock for the next 30 years paying for it - 2-1/2 to 3 times over.

Dobbin
 
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Melodi

Melodi

Disaster Cat
This has the potential to be a lot more important than FaceSpy. That's because traditionally tyrannical governments need "an enemy." They have to find one portion of the population to demonize or make "other" in order to have an excuse to cling to power.

At the moment, it is painfully obvious that they tried (and are still trying) to make anyone who voted for Trump (or their friends) to be "Domestic Terrorists." When the majority of the population has refused to totally go along with this narrative (even most liberals know better) they needed another target or another way to pinpoint their "target."

That is one of the things that made "The Speech" by Biden (and handlers) so terrifying, it was trying to turn 1/2 of the US (the Vaccination) against the "enemy" Unvaccinated people.

In the last couple of weeks (and I have talked this over with my household) I've seen growing suggestions that part of "the enemy" is also those horrible "preppers/hoarders" who are the "reason" goods are disappearing from the shops. They want the public both in the US and Europe (especially the UK) to blame those "horrible and selfish" people who have dared to actually use their own cash and resources to plan ahead and have some backstock of food and other goods.

To see that even Suckerburg is now (being told I'm sure) to use the slogan "too prepared," and to classify smallholders and home food preservation as "perhaps" being "too prepared," is chilling.

The word "hoarder" wasn't working, the terms "Domestic Terrorism" wasn't working (at least not in the context the Administration wanted it to), and making unvaccinated people an "enemy-hated class" well that wasn't working all that well either.

But with shipping lanes collapsing, an energy crisis looming, a potential economic collapse/depression (with or without the default of the US or not), the public is simply going to experience a lot of empty shelves, lack of heating/cooling, possibly power blackouts and a huge shortage of things people have gotten used to having.

So where to put the blame? On the people who thought ahead or who may even simply live a frugal lifestyle, plenty of people have grown up canning and doing food preservation especially if they come from a farming family.

I am very concerned to see this - oh, and for those of you who have totally dumped Facebook, if you ever WERE a member of any now "targeted" type of group, you are still in the system.

I now use Facebook sparingly, mostly to keep in touch with family and a few friends who only use it for communications but I'm giving out my e-mail more and more in case I just decide to leave. These days I post very little except about cats or to comment on a friend's wedding or something like that.
 
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