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| Meet the Vichy Conservatives Sucking Up to Zuckerberg |
| 2016-05-21 |
| [Breitbart] Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg met with a range of establishment conservatives in Silicon Valley on Wednesday to discuss the reported suppression of conservative content. There were reportedly 16 attendees at the meeting, which included: - Glenn Beck, founder of the The Blaze - Barry Bennett, an adviser to Donald Trump - Jim DeMint, former GOP Senator from South Carolina - Robert Bluey, editor in chief of the The Daily Signal - Dana Perino, host at Fox News - Alex Skatell, founder of the Independent Journal Review - Mary Katharine Ham, Hot Air Editor at Large - S.E. Cupp, CNN political commentator - Jenny Beth Martin, CEO of the Tea Party Patriots - Brent Bozell, President of Media Research Center - Zac Moffatt, part of Mitt Romney’s campaign - Arthur Brooks, American Entreprise Institute Representatives from Breitbart were asked to attend but declined the invitation, as did American Conservative Union Chairman Matt Schlapp. Cupp posted on Twitter after the meeting to say "it had been very productive." Meanwhile Fox News host Dana Perino told The Blaze that the meeting was "overall positive," adding that Zuckerburg had a "genuine desire" to fix Facebook’s rift with conservatives. President of Media Research Brent Bozell also talked positively of the meeting, saying that "Facebook understands there is a problem" and that they also "have a genuine desire to correct it." Zuckerberg himself posted on Facebook shortly after the meeting to say "I know many conservatives don’t trust that our platform surfaces content without a political bias." "I wanted to hear their concerns personally and have an open conversation about how we can build trust," he claimed. "I want to do everything I can to make sure our teams uphold the integrity of our products." Meanwhile Breitbart’s Milo Yiannopoulos was critical of the meeting and the image it portrayed, saying that it merely assisted Facebook in its marketing efforts and that "extreme stupidity" was the only explanation for the participants’ attendance. Facebook have also confirmed they are aware of Yiannopoulos’s invitation to debate Mark Zuckerburg one on one over the issue of censorship of conservative media. |
| Posted by:Besoeker |
| #12 "It's called 'sarcasm'." Are you being sarcastic? |
| Posted by: Iblis 2016-05-21 22:44 |
| #11 Paps - Conservatives are Nazis - is that what you were going for? It's called 'sarcasm'. Perhaps you've heard of it. Fascism was an Italian phenomenon The priciples of which seems to be making a comeback in Europe, and among a certain part of the American political spectrum - which doesn't like conservatives. |
| Posted by: Pappy 2016-05-21 13:21 |
| #10 Now, now, Crawford. You're being serious. |
| Posted by: g(r)omgoru 2016-05-21 13:13 |
| #9 grom -- American conservatives want to preserve liberty. That makes them vastly different than most of the conservatives around the world. |
| Posted by: Rob Crawford 2016-05-21 12:51 |
| #8 Good old She was 'all in' for low energy Jeb, even as his ship was sinking. Keep an eye on er'...mad dogs and Englishmen. |
| Posted by: Besoeker 2016-05-21 12:47 |
| #7 Meanwhile Fox News host Dana Perino told The Blaze that the meeting was "overall positive," adding that Zuckerburg had a "genuine desire" to fix Facebook’s rift with conservatives. Good old I'm sure this will lead to |
| Posted by: charger 2016-05-21 12:38 |
| #6 Paps - Conservatives are Nazis - is that what you were going for? The NYT would be proud, not least because this view is counter factual. Fascism was an Italian phenomenon. Nazism was a left wing movement. The name is a hint. It stands for National Socialists. Jonah Goldberg does a good job laying this out in Liberal Fascism. |
| Posted by: Iblis 2016-05-21 12:37 |
| #5 A conservative is someone who wants to protect the tried and tested, but will throw out anything that doesn't pass the test. |
| Posted by: European Conservative 2016-05-21 12:35 |
| #4 Then, iblis, most people in the world are conservatives---because most feel this way about their respective homelands. |
| Posted by: g(r)omgoru 2016-05-21 11:29 |
| #3 The fascists had the 30s and 40s - so, an extra decade. |
| Posted by: Pappy 2016-05-21 11:12 |
| #2 A conservative is someone who believes that America is a unique and special place and wants to preserve the things that made it that way. |
| Posted by: Iblis 2016-05-21 10:53 |
| #1 Conservative is somebody who believes 1950 were Paradise, eh? |
| Posted by: g(r)omgoru 2016-05-21 10:42 |