Thread: Facebook apologizes for 'error' that banned reports on illegals taking jobs from Amer

Facebook apologizes for 'error' that banned reports on illegals taking jobs from Americans

By Paul Bedard • 8/24/15 11:00 AM

Facebook temporarily banned users from posting reports by an immigration watchdog analyzing federal statistics that show immigrants in general, and illegal immigrants specifically, are taking a big share of new jobs that come open in America, according to the group producing the reports.

The giant website cited an "error" causing the ban and apologized.

The Center for Immigration Studies, a think tank relied upon by immigration critics, said Monday that the posting of four recent reports on jobs and immigration had been barred by Facebook.



A test by Secrets found the same results Monday. The message said, "Warning: This Message Contains Blocked Content: Your message couldn't be sent because it includes content that other people on Facebook have reported as abusive."

But after Secrets raised the issue with Facebook, a spokesman said the ban was an error and that the reports will be allowed to post.

"This was an error and they shouldn't have any issues sharing the links now," said a spokesperson. "An error in our system that helps block bad links on Facebook incorrectly marked some URLs as malicious or inappropriate. We've resolved the issue and apologize for the inconvenience this caused," added the spokesperson.

Facebook and founder Mark Zuckerberg has taken a position in support of immigration, which has become a top issue in the GOP presidential primary race.

The center said that by barring four reports from being posted on Facebook, now among the top news sources for America, the website is censoring information key to the immigration debate and the drive by some in Congress to expand immigration. The reports that are banned are based on federal statistics, including the U.S. Census and Bureau of Labor Statistics.

Steven Camarota, the center's director of research and the author of the reports, said in a blog post, "The poor job market is one of the most important issues confronting the country. It is extremely troubling that Facebook would block studies that simply report government data on how immigrants and natives are faring in the U.S. job market. These reports have received a good deal of attention from various media outlets and have been discussed by members of Congress. It is absurd to suggest they are 'abusive.'"

http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/fa...rticle/2570710

Facebook Says It Didn’t Censor Content Undermining Zuckerberg’s Immigration Agenda, Was ‘Error’

by Julia Hahn
24 Aug 2015
Washington D.C.

Facebook claims it wasn’t censoring its users who wished to post studies using government-data job reports that demonstrate how mass migration has impacted the U.S. labor market—information that undercuts the political stance of Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg.

The Center for Immigration Studies, a nonpartisan research group that examines the effects of large-scale migration in the United States, showed recently that four job reports the group authored had been banned from the social networking website. Those reports seem to undermine Facebook’s legislative agenda of increasing immigration. Zuckerberg has repeatedly called for expanding the labor market through mass immigration, and founded an immigration lobbying group, FWD.us, which pushes for increasing the nation’s record-high immigration levels.

In a blog post on its website, the nonpartisan group writes: “An informed debate over immigration requires data and analysis about its effects… That is why it is so disturbing that Facebook, owned by immigration-expansionist Mark Zuckerberg, has banned four reports published by the Center for Immigration Studies pertaining to jobs and immigration.”

The four reports Facebook banned all demonstrate the impact mass migration has had on American workers—namely that the labor market has become oversaturated by an influx of foreign workers coming to the United States, primarily on visas issued by the federal government. The banned labor reports are entitled:

• All Employment Growth Since 2000 Went to Immigrants

• Despite Recent Job Growth, Native Employment Still Below 2007: Bureau of Labor Statistics data show all net employment growth has gone to immigrants

• For Every New Job, Two New Immigrants; Since 2000: 9.3 million new jobs, 18 million new immigrants

• Still No Evidence of a Labor Shortage

The nonpartisan research group explains that: “When a Facebook user attempts to post or message these reports, a message appears stating, ‘Your message could not be sent because it includes content that other people on Facebook have reported as abusive.’”

Once the group discovered the ban, it filed a report with Facebook, but—after 10 days– the ban had not yet been lifted. So the group went public.

The scholar who authored the government data-based reports, Steve Camarota, said in a statement:

The poor job market is one of the most important issues confronting the country. It is extremely troubling that Facebook would block studies that simply report government data on how immigrants and natives are faring in the U.S. job market. These reports have received a good deal of attention from various media outlets and have been discussed by members of Congress. It is absurd to suggest that they are “abusive.”

The author of these reports has testified before Congress as an expert witness. These reports have been covered by Breitbart News, The Washington Times, The Washington Post, The New York Times and The Washington Examiner.

When asked what happened—and for a response to CIS—a Facebook spokesperson told Breitbart News that it was just a simple error in their system, not a malicious attempt by the social media giant to use censorship to push its founder’s political agenda.

“An error in our system that helps block bad links on Facebook incorrectly marked some URLs as malicious,” the Facebook spokesperson said in an email. “We’ve resolved the issue and apologize for the inconvenience this caused.”

Every year the United States admits one million-plus foreign nationals on green cards, one million guest workers, dependents and refugees, and half a million foreign youths sought by college administrators.

Mark Zuckerberg and his lobbying firm have argued for increasing the issuances of H-1B visas—a visa which is popular with corporations because it allows companies to replace American workers with foreign laborers at lower salaries. This recently happened at Disney, Southern California Edison, and Fossil Inc. The H-1B visa also presents a pipeline for large-scale immigration from Muslim countries.

FWD.us has endorsed Sen. Marco Rubio (R-FL)’s I-Squared bill– which would triple the number of wage-depressing H-1B visas– describing the bill as “our gold standard for high tech reform.”

Companies currently fill around two-thirds of entry-level tech jobs with foreign workers, but if Rubio’s I-Squared bill were to become law, corporations would “have enough guestworkers for at least 100 percent of their new hiring and [could] continue to legally substitute” American workers for foreign laborers at lower salaries, says tech labor expert Hal Salzman.

The former president of Mark Zuckerberg’s immigration lobbying declared last year that low-wage foreign laborers are better than American workers.

Last week, Zuckerberg’s immigration lobbying group slammed Donald Trump for his popular immigration proposal, which puts forth policies that would curb record-high immigration levels at a time when 93 million Americans are not participating in the work force.

Ironically, many of the progressive issues Facebook has supported, such as gay rights and women’s equality, could be undermined by corporation’s desire to import large numbers of immigrants from non-Western countries that do not share such values. For instance, Facebook’s COO Sheryl Sandberg has been vocal in her support for women’s issues.

Yet, as Equality Now announced, increased immigration from predominantly Muslim countries that routinely practice female genital mutilation, has brought to the United States — at least half a million U.S. girls may now be forced to undergo barbaric and misogynistic practice.

http://www.breitbart.com/big-governm...nda-was-error/

Sure. Zuckerberg, only one of the biggest open borders illegal alien loving allies, didn't mean to censor pro-American posts. Sure.

More like Facebook just got flat out busted doing what Mark Zuckerberg's minions do to all of us fighting against illegal immigration... Faceblocking. Except usually they dont block the whole thing so overtly.

Faceblocking is usually a kind of sandbagging where if an American makes a post that is against illegal immigration the Facebook's Muslim moderators in Africa flick a switch or their automated software prevents many people from seeing the post.

But if the comment originates from a Democrat Party or socialist and pro amnesty facebook page then the Facebook software lets everyone on your friends list see the share or post!

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https://www.facebook.com/pages/Mark-...60107447369976

Of course they banned it, and now they're lying about it because of the backlash because they got caught. Many thanks to everyone involved who caught them, and made them fix it.

Facebook owners are Anti-American. That's why they fund Anti-American Open Borders and Pro-Illegal Immigration advocacy organizations. Every American on Facebook should post that if Zuckerberg doesn't withdraw his money from these organizations, and apologize publicly in a national press conference to the American People, they will boycott Facebook.

Here we go again being screwed over by Facebook. We are the customers. Facebook need us; we do not need it; there are plenty of alternatives we can go to instead of using Crap- On- Your- Face Book. Are there no telephones? Is there no e-mail ? Are there no alternative social media web sites? Twitter? We have to stop feeding the mouth that bites us. Remember the alternative sites we use do not have to be conservative; they just need to be somebody other than Facebook. If they are too liberal we can deal with them in turn after we smack down the arrogant pukes at Crap-On-Your-Face Book.

There are tens of millions of conservatives, and the vast majority use Facebook. Why? Zuckerberger screws over them repeatedly. All they need to do is start using one of the conservative friendly social media sites like Tea Party Community.com. Crap-On-Your-Face Book could be seriously hurt if abused conservative just went elsewhere. Crap-On-Your-Face Book can not endure a serious challenge by a strong competitor. Conservatives have the ability to create such a competitor. What is wrong with conservatives?