Vincent Harris Quoted on Inside Facebook’s GOP charm offensive

By TONY ROMM and HADAS GOLD After accusations of anti-conservative bias began to burn Facebook last week, the social media giant quietly reached out to Republican Party leaders to douse the brush fire. It contacted the Republican National Committee, whose chairman, Reince Priebus, had publicly demanded that Facebook “answer for conservative censorship” — and the…

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Vincent Harris Quoted On Facebook Scrambles To Contain Fallout

By David McCabe Facebook is scrambling to contain the fallout from allegations that it has suppressed right-leaning political content on its powerful platform — a charge that hits at the social network’s image of neutrality. CEO and co-founder Mark Zuckerberg promised Thursday to meet with top conservatives about the allegations, a sign of how damaging…

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Direct Media is Dead. Long live Censored, Suppressed, and Curated Media by Vincent Harris

Perhaps we’ve gotten what we deserve. Was it all a trick? Were we too naïve? Thomas Jefferson said, “Where the press is free and every man able to read, all is safe.” But Thomas Jefferson could never have predicted a world where every citizen had access to social media accounts and could share their thoughts…

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Vincent Harris Quoted In By Getting Into The News Business, Facebook Opened Itself Up To A New Controversy

Facebook denies allegations from a former news curator that it scrubs its site of articles by and about political conservatives. (Karen Bleier / AFP / Getty Images) David Pierson and Paresh Dave   To lure more users and advertising dollars, Facebook has increasingly assumed the role of a news organization by curating and publishing articles…

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