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Wednesday, July 18, 2018

Idiot du Jour

There seems to be this little corner of Iowa that has a racist, neo-fascist majority that keeps sending Steve King back to Congress. Here's an example of what a shining example of rational intelligence he is:

Speaking Tuesday during the House Judiciary Committee's, "Facebook, Google and Twitter: Examining the Content Filtering Practices of Social Media Giants," Rep. King demanded to know why a right wing site is losing traffic. King specifically mentioned a pro-Trump conspiracy theory and "fake news" website known as Gateway Pundit, run by Jim Hoft, a man whose name has become synonymous with "the stupidest man on the Internet," according to a Google search.

In the House hearing, King challenged Facebook's head of global policy management, Monika Bickert, to explain why Gateway Pundit supposedly "saw its traffic cut by 54%." Facebook, contrary to King's assumptions, does not guarantee traffic to any website.

Congressman King also suggested Facebook uses the Southern Poverty Law Center as an ethics "advisory group" to determine how much traffic a Facebook page or website would receive.

It's called the "free market," bozo: your traffic is determined by how popular your content is.

It figures that King would support a wacko-conspiracy theorist.

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