{"id":100849,"date":"2020-10-30T03:15:00","date_gmt":"2020-10-30T00:15:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/investor-lonsdale-breaks-from-facebook-to-protest-move-to-authoritarian-left\/"},"modified":"2020-10-30T03:15:00","modified_gmt":"2020-10-30T00:15:00","slug":"investor-lonsdale-breaks-from-facebook-to-protest-move-to-authoritarian-left","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/investor-lonsdale-breaks-from-facebook-to-protest-move-to-authoritarian-left\/","title":{"rendered":"#Investor Lonsdale breaks from Facebook to protest move to ‘authoritarian left’"},"content":{"rendered":"

“#Investor Lonsdale breaks from Facebook<\/a> to protest move to ‘authoritarian left’<\/strong>”
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\n Joe Lonsdale is taking a break from Facebook to protest what he calls the social network\u2019s capitulation to the \u201cauthoritarian left.\u201d<\/p>\n

The 38-year-old Silicon Valley investor \u2014 a Stanford-educated protege of Peter Thiel and co-founder of data-mining giant Palantir \u2014 told The Post he\u2019s \u201creally bothered\u201d by the power Facebook has to control what its users see.<\/p>\n

That includes the social network\u2019s practice of fact-checking and throttling certain pieces of content, including The Post\u2019s recent reporting on Hunter Biden, Lonsdale said.<\/p>\n

\u201cIf Facebook really is app<\/a>lying this equally they have a hell of a lot to prove,\u201d Lonsdale told the Post. \u201cBecause it\u2019s pretty obvious to most people I talk to, including friends who are Democrats, that Facebook is doing a lot more to help things that are friendly to a left perspective than friendly to a right perspective.\u201d<\/p>\n

Lonsdale, who says he plans to stay off Facebook completely in the coming months, had defended the social network this summer as major corporations pulled their ads from the platform over concerns about its handling of hate speech.<\/p>\n

In a Washington Post op-ed published in July (paywall)<\/a>, Lonsdale said companies that participated in the NAACP-led boycott, including Coca-Cola and Unilever, were caving \u201cto a mob that, left unopposed, would destroy free speech.\u201d<\/p>\n

But this week, he said Facebook\u2019s recent decisions suggest the company and CEO Mark Zuckerberg are heading in the wrong direction. He pointed to Facebook\u2019s move to limit the spread of The Post\u2019s Biden stories while they were fact-checked, as well as its disabling the account of provocateur podcaster and academic Bret Weinstein. (Facebook said Weinstein was locked out by mistake and restored his account.)<\/p>\n

These and \u201cother examples of clear bias show that the authoritarians have worn Zuck down and that he is no longer sticking to the principles he laid out,\u201d Lonsdale wrote in an Oct. 22 Facebook post.<\/p>\n

Lonsdale\u2019s missive prompted a response from Zuckerberg, who noted that Facebook has been flagging viral content for fact-checking for more than a year.<\/p>\n

At a congressional hearing on Wednesday, he said a warning from the FBI about a possible \u201chack and leak operation\u201d ahead of the presidential election also played a role in the company\u2019s decision to slow down The Post\u2019s story, which was based on emails from a hard drive that reportedly belonged to Biden.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019ll miss seeing your posts, but I hope you don\u2019t base your view of our long-held philosophy on a few isolated examples,\u201d Zuckerberg wrote in a comment on Lonsdale\u2019s post.<\/p>\n

Facebook did not respond to an email seeking further comment on Lonsdale\u2019s criticisms.\n <\/p><\/div>\n

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