In addition to shutting down “misinformation” about COVID-19 and vaccines, Facebook also has a reputation for shutting down religious views that it disagrees with; most notably, pages that are pro-Israel or focus on traditional religion and Christian values.
Back to May, Jewish business news It reported the closure of the page of the Jerusalem Prayer Group, a well-known pro-Israel organization because it was the victim of a cyber attack by pro-Palestinian hackers.
The page of the Jerusalem Prayer Group has been closed FacebookThe organization yelled fouls, claiming that it was a victim of anti-Israel hackers. The Facebook page of this Christian religious group has more than 75 million fans.
They ban Pastor Franklin Graham, the son of Pastor Billy Graham, and the chairman of Christmas Children’s Action from posting on the site 24 hours.
This situation has been going on for many years, since this year 2018 Federalist Article document:
The Warriors for Christ FB page (with 225,000 followers) of a pastor in West Virginia, Rich Penkoski, closed for about a year because he said: “If you are gay, statistically, you are more likely to be gay. Pedophile” (go here, here, and here). He said that he was often harassed and threatened by LGBTQ activists on Facebook, but the FB administrator did nothing.
Brazilian blogger Julio Severo was suspended from FB for 30 days on December 10, 2017 writing Portuguese: “As Christians, we should love homosexuals, murderers, rapists, pedophiles, and all other sinners. Only the love of Jesus can be done in us.” According to the Facebook administrator, the comment (Absurdly) Belongs to one of the following prohibited categories: “Provide sexual services, solicit sexual materials, threaten or describe sexual violence, threaten to share private pictures or any sexual content involving minors.”
Facebook selectively shut down the page, but during the pandemic, the church can switch to online methods. Access to Facebook Live and video features has been expanded and adapted so that Zuck can take advantage of all these opinions, personal information, and the money that comes with it. Sadly, most churches were slaughtered like lambs and their congregations were taken away.
Now, Facebook hopes to use blockade and isolation to build an “online faith community” and launch a new feature called “prayer posts”
From Religious News Agency:
New Facebook features? Prayer post. This feature will allow members of Facebook groups to request and respond to prayer requests.
A Facebook spokesperson confirmed to the Religious News Agency that the social media platform is currently testing prayer posts.
The spokesperson said that the idea of the prayer post stems from the countless ways users use Facebook during the COVID-19 pandemic.
“Our mission of empowering people to build communities extends to the largest community in the world; the faith community,” said Nona Jones, head of Facebook’s Global Faith Partnership, in a written statement to RNS.
“As the pastor of my husband’s local church, I know very well how much damage was done to people of faith and the chapel that served them last year,” Jones said. “That’s why we are committed to finding ways to build tools to help people connect with hope on Facebook.”
Until… Facebook is testing prayer posts for groups pic.twitter.com/H18SDIpui3
-Matt Navarra (@MattNavarra) June 3, 2021
This is not only ridiculous, but also extremely hypocritical. It is only natural that they are condemned by religious leaders. awesome!
Let us prey.
— DKR Boyd (@ReflectingMan) June 3, 2021
from Ou An:
After the social media giant Facebook launched its latest prayer button function, it was met with strong opposition from religious groups. On Friday, several members of different faith groups opposed the new “prayer” function, calling it a pathological attempt to monetize religion.
Facebook is like an abusive spouse. Fight against religious groups by banning their pages and activities for about a minute, then try to pamper them and bring them back with soothing words and friendly gestures. If it weren’t so disgusting, it would be maddening.
Religious people said that the new features make them feel exploited by Facebook.
“You have to assume that they are trying to exploit you in some way, so I don’t know why this is an exception, because it’s about our spiritual life, it looks very disgusting”
They also questioned what the social media giant hopes to gain from the new features and what data to collect from them.
“Go down to the level of collecting information about the types of things people actually ask for prayers, or whether they just collect the kind of people who might ask for prayers and then target them with ads about spiritual things,” Fisher explained. “You always have to assume it has to do with money in one way or another.”
According to Facebook, faith groups are seen as an important community to promote participation on social media platforms.
Then, you can easily access data about people who hold religious views and opinions outside the selected narrative, so that you can easily isolate, persecute, and purge those who hold traditional beliefs and values, and at the same time provide for those who don’t. People with beliefs and values provide platforms and encouragement.
I’m part of several public and private prayer pages on Facebook, so religious people don’t need extra features or incentives to do this. If Facebook really has the pulse of this community, they will know this and leave people alone.
This is obviously a way for Facebook to make them appear to be uniting and encouraging a large religious tent, while hiding their true agenda.Besides always An agenda.
Facebook’s motto: We can’t beat them or get rid of their data, so let’s make money from them!
Pinnacle Facebook. Let us hope this continues to burn in the flames.
