Free Speech Under Fire on Social Media

 Free Speech is under fire on Social Media. Although it is possible to express a variety of opinions as comments under posts on social media platforms like Facebook and Instagram, many posts on social media will be censored. 

You don’t have to be yelling “fire” in a theater or “threatening” anyone to be censored. You simply have to post an opposing set of facts that challenges the beliefs espoused by these social networks and the groups they cater to. 

If you post on a variety of "forbidden" topics, your posts will be fact checked, labeled as "misinformation," or even deleted. You may even get a warning, or suspended or find your account closed simply for trying to present facts that don't align with the beliefs of Mark Zuckerberg or Jack Dorsey. Not only might your personal account disappear, but your group or page might suddenly be gone because someone posted something the censors don't like. Groups disappear all the time with no warning and NO APPARENT VIOLATION. See Facebook Group 'Pray for Our President' Deleted.

The following is an excerpt from the longer article The Crisis of Free Speech in America (and Globally).

"You never learn the whole truth by only hearing half the story." 

This is a partial list of topics that will get you warned, suspended, shadow-banned or have your account closed on platforms that act like publishers, including Facebook and Twitter:

Things That Will Get You Warned or Banned on Social Media

• You cannot talk about the American Journal of Medicine’s recent positive article about hydroxychloroquine or all the other impressive research and data about this drug's effectiveness as an early treatment for COVID. 
• You cannot discuss race and crime statistics or those posts will get pulled and you will get a warning. 
• You cannot talk about the escalating genocide of Christians by Muslims in Nigeria and around the globe. 
• You cannot talk about known problems with both the Pfizer and Moderna vaccines. 
• You cannot talk about the possibility that the Russians manufactured some WWII stories when they entered Germany to create a smoke screen to hide atrocities the Russians committed in their own country. 
• You cannot post memes with direct quotes from Democrats that incite violence. Those actual quotes are immediately labeled misinformation.
• You now cannot talk about scientific evidence the much of Global Warming is cyclical in nature. 
• FB just announced they will be “fact checking” posts about the United Nations from now on. You won’t be able to discuss flawed policies or other issues regarding the UN.  
• And although there is massive documented evidence of voter fraud in the 2020 election, you cannot present it without it being labeled as misinformation or worse, having your account closed  

Posts that do not conform to Facebook, Twitter and Instagram platform views are pulled, shadow banned or labeled as misinformation. These "platforms" continue to act more like publishers than platforms, because people’s accounts are suspended or closed if they dare to disagree with what the social media technocrats want their readers to believe. 

Read the full article here: 

The Crisis of Free Speech in America (and Globally)

Facebook Group 'Pray for Our President' Deleted

 'Pray for Our President' Facebook Group Mysteriously Disappears

In October, Facebook members of the popular “Pray for Our President” FB group led by author and speaker Donna Partow, which had 135,000-140,000 followers, noticed the group was no longer showing up in their Groups list. Mysteriously, while smaller groups of the same name remained, the large group had vanished. 

Notice from Facebook when "Pray for Our President" link is clicked

The prayer group was apparently deleted by the powers that be at the multi-billion dollar Facebook corporation, during the last three critical weeks before the election. This led to group members posting questions and hypotheses about what happened on the liberal-leaning social media platform.

Social networks like Facebook and Twitter have come under a lot of recent fire and scrutiny about their heavy-handed approach to moderating and censoring conservative voices, posts and news. While their liberal supporters point to Facebook terms of service as grounds for censorship of conservative groups, conservatives point to the much lighter censoring of liberal groups and news in comparison to the overt and consistent censorship Facebook doles out to conservative links and posts.

Read the complete article at:

• Popular 'Pray for Our President' Facebook Group Deleted from Facebook | Christian Activities: 

Also read the interview with "Pray for Our President" Founder Donna Partow who speaks out on the deletion of the popular group by Facebook one month before the election...

• Why Did Facebook Delete the 'Pray for Our President' Group? Interview with Donna Partow | Christian Activities

Conservatives Asked to Join USA.Life, the 'Conservative Facebook Alternative'

 Conservatives Asked to Join USA.Life, the 'Conservative Facebook Alternative,' as TeamTrump and Kayleigh McEnany Are Censored by Facebook and Twitter for Sharing About Biden-Ukraine Story

The CEO of  USA.Life invites President Trump supporters to talk freely about the Biden-Ukraine story by joining the "Conservative Facebook alternative". Facebook and Twitter blocked or restricted access to the New York Post article about the Biden family’s business dealings in Ukraine. Conservative Silicon Valley tech visionary, Steven Andrew, is CEO and founder of USA.Life. People can sign up at USA.Life.

"Everyone has a right to know the truth about the Joe and Hunter Biden story; this timely election news article is freely shared on USA.Life," Andrew said.

"The nation needs an honest conversation without restrictions in the middle of such an important election, because we know Facebook admitted suppressing the story's distribution in a tweet by Andy Stone, a Facebook communications employee," Andrew said. "The TeamTrump official campaign account was locked by Twitter and the White House Press Secretary Kayleigh McEnany's personal Twitter account and other conservatives were suspended or restricted."

" USA.Life has the leading Pro-America community; loving America makes USA.Life unique and positive," said Andrew.

"Our freedom, rights, national security, and country are at stake, that is why conservatives see the urgency to join USA.Life," Andrew said.

USA.Life is popular with President Trump supporters and hopes to have over one million users soon.

Members share photos, updates, videos, and messages, and join groups. Users from other countries join too.

"People find hope on USA.Life during the election," Andrew said. "USA.Life is a powerful way to meet conservatives, unite, and be encouraged."

Users give Like's and Love's as reactions on posts and the unique America Flag reaction for "Patriotic" is popular. Many other reactions for expressions are available.

USA.Life provides twice as many friends as Facebook does. On USA.Life users can have 10,000 Friends, which is double the 5,000 Facebook friends limit.

USA.Life keeps all user information private and does not sell user's information to marketers.

To join, go to  USA.Life.

About USA.Life
USA.Life is the fast growing Conservative Facebook alternative. To connect with people, businesses, groups, and churches get a free account at  USA.Life..

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Parler Responds to Facebook’s Move to Block Erasebook.info

 

Parler, the People-driven social platform, today issued the following statement on Facebook’s blocking across its platform—within minutes of it going live—the informational website www.Erasebook.info.

“Facebook blocks Erasebook.info. Apparently, the fact-checker does not want to be fact checked. It’s not the first time that Facebook has resorted to content curation to push its agenda-driven narrative, as many publishers do,” said Parler CEO John Matze. “Facebook manipulates what we see, hear, write, read and say—in an effort to control what we think and do.

“I encourage critical thinkers everywhere to visit Erasebook.info, to get the facts and join the movement at Parler.”

Parler launched the website www.Erasebook.info on Friday, September 3 as a place for individuals to get facts on Facebook’s content-moderation and data-mining practices, and to help users reclaim their personal information.

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Parler Invites Jewish Community to #Twexit, Parley During Boycott of Twitter

 

Press Release:

Parler, the People-driven social platform, is inviting the international Jewish community, and all people concerned with institutional anti-Semitism at social publishers like Facebook and Twitter, to join their digital Public Square.  

• Are Jewish People Being Unfairly Censored on Social Media? Parler Says Yes

Last week, Twitter suspended user accounts displaying the Star of David—an important symbol of the heroism and resilience of the Jewish People—in their profiles. The social publisher said the pictures were “hateful imagery” and forced account holders to delete the images in order to restore access. 

Jewish leaders called for a 48-hour boycott of Twitter, but Parler has a better suggestion:

“Parler applauds the intent of the Jewish boycott of Twitter, but Twitter has proven deaf to such measures in the past,” said Parler Strategic investor Jeffrey Wernick. “We encourage those concerned with anti-Semitism to take further action and Twexit.

“Parler cordially invites the Jewish community and their many supporters regardless of belief to join our Public Square, where they will never be subject to censorship or discrimination because of religion, ethnicity or ideology. I am confident the free and permissionless nature of Parler will be a refreshing change for those weary of the technoauthoritarianism Jews and so many others experience at the hands of Twitter and other social media publishers.

“Leaving agenda-driven publishers like Twitter behind for good is the best weapon we have against their biased censorship. I again extend a warm welcome to all boycott participants to Twexit and explore Parler.”

Parler was founded in 2018 and has 3.3 million users. The platform is committed to free speech, does not mine or sell user data, and does not censor content based on politics or ideology. Parler continues to stand with the People and against Technocronyism.

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Conservatives, Christians, More Move to Social Networks USA.Life & Parler

Why Make the Move to USA.Life and Parler?

Recently, some of the leading social media platform have gone out of their way to antagonize some of their most loyal and profitable market. Facebook mods are on record saying they delete and shadow-ban conservative posts. Twitter has censored President Trump and Instagram and even Reddit have stifled conservative voices. 

According to Statista, one of the leading statistics companies on the internet, social media spending in the US was expected to increase to $17.34 billion in 2019. By 2020, social media ad spending is predicted overtake traditional TV ads. Yet these social media platforms have apparently been doing almost everything in their power—not to serve as platforms— but to act as censors for opinions they don’t like and to drive away conservative users, businesses whose politics they don't agree with, as well as potential advertisers. 

Thankfully, there are other options. That's why more and more conservatives, Christians, and Trump supporters are moving to the new USA.Life & Parler platforms.

Conservatives, Christians, Trump Supporters & Others Move to New Social Networks USA.Life and Parler

Conservatives, Christians, family-friendly networkers and supporters of President Trump are joining the new USA.Life and Parler social networks in record numbers, because of left-leaning platforms like Instagram, Facebook, Twitter and Reddit censoring or banning President Trump's followers and other conservative voices. USA.Life is the answer to left-leaning Facebook, and Parler is the free-speech option to heavy-handed Twitter. Read more at:

Conservatives, Christians, More Move to Social  Networks USA.Life & Parler

Top 4 Ways to Engage Readers on Social Media

What do your readers want to see on social media platforms?

If you have taken it upon yourself to do social media marketing for yourself or another business, it's not uncommon to hit a brick wall when looking for ideas for content that engages your readers. How do you make people on social media platforms want to know more about your business or service?

The simple truth is nobody wants to hear another plug for your business. If all you do is toot your own horn, you will lose your audience

But things are not hopeless! If you can bait an effective hook that draws your readers in each time, they will eagerly devour your posts.

The number one goal of social media marketing is to keep those readers coming back for more, so it's important to write posts for your audience, not your business. The whole purpose of creating content is to keep your readers engaged, because an audience that is engaged will accelerate the growth of your platform

So when you are contemplating that next post, there are three simple questions you should ask yourself before posting on social networks.

Top Three Questions to Ask About Social Media Posts  

When you are writing posts for social media platforms, you need to know what your audience wants to know. so it is crucial to always ask yourself these three critical questions before you post:

•  “Is this content relevant to my readers?”
•  “Will my followers care about this information?”
•  “Will my audience understand how this post can impact their lives?”

If you can always answer "yes" to these three questions every time you post, you will know the basics to engaging your readers. But let's take a deeper look at the best ways to create engaging content on social platforms.

Four Best Ways to Engage Readers on Social Media 

• 1. Write content relevant to your readers

Your readers care about posts that speak to their needs and interests and don't just promote a product or service. Make sure your social media posts always provide your social network with information that they can relate to that will help them and their families in some way.

• 2. Write content your followers will care about

If you want to get the full attention of your social networks, write content for them, not pitches aimed at them. Posts that are the most effective will contain a call to action that will have direct impact on your readers' lives.

One way to do this is to offer practical information and handy tips that social media followers can use to improve their lives.

Another way is to talk about your topic and not just your business. Provide useful information about your field, not just your product. This adds value for your readers.

• 3. Write posts that will directly impact the lives of your social media audience

If you can provide your Facebook and Twitter followers tips and advice that save them money or help them solve a problem, you can provide content that impacts your followers' lives.  This, in turn, keeps your social media networks engaged and coming back for more.

Writing posts that have direct impact on your readers will make those posts of value on even the most professional networks, including LinkedIn.

• 4. Write posts that are humorous or entertaining

Sometimes it is good to mix it up a bit with posts that will make your readers laugh or add interest to their day. Adding in posts that are funny or entertaining will go a long way towards keeping your audience returning.

So tell a joke or a funny story -- even better if you can make the joke relate to your product or industry.

Social media content that adds value to your readers will ensure your audience is engaged by relevant content your followers care about and believe will impact their lives. Posts that speak directly to your readers will connect with your target market and keep your social networking followers coming back for more.

Related: 

• Top 5 Ways to Promote Your Social Media Networks 
• Why You Should Promote Your Social Networks
• Social Media: Top 5 Things Your Audience Wants to Know
• Social Media: The Power of Posting Frequently
• Social Media Marketing by the Numbers for 2019

About Kathryn Darden:
 
Darden was trained by Yahoo and Examiner on effective ways to utilize social media and SEO to promote her articles for their online platforms. Since then she has worked with numerous clients to promote everything from music to video games, from skincare to traditional brick and mortar businesses. She is the author of “How to Promote Your Book on a Shoestring Budget.”  Connect with Darden.

Top 5 Ways to Avoid Spam Triggers on Social Media

Spam is annoying

Social media marketing is definitely one of the best ways to get your message out there in 2019. However, when you are promoting content to social networks, using the wrong words can get your posts labeled as spammy, and spam is ignored or deleted.

Some of the worst spam words are almost laughable and probably won't be a problem for most businesses to avoid using on their social networks: porn, viagra, cures baldness.

However, other spam words may be harder to recognize, and since it is important to post on social media frequently, it is essential to chose the best words each time. Using effective language instead of spammy tricks will ensure you have content that tells your audience what they really want to know.

Bonus: These tips will also help you create less spammy-sounding titles for blog posts as well improve the subject lines of promotional emails.

Here is tip one of five tips on avoiding spam triggers on social networks like Twitter, Facebook and LinkedIn.

1. Avoid Spam Words

Since social media marketing relies on short posts on social platforms to get their point across,  it is important to minimize spam trigger words in your posts.

But what are spam trigger words? Spam words are those that you see all the time--words that are overused on social media marketing to sell and promote goods. These words trigger a reader's response to skip the post entirely. Here are some common words and phrases to avoid in your social media posts:

Top Ten Spam Words to Avoid on Social Media

1. Free
2. Risk-free
3. Free trial
4. Buy
5. Discount
6. Special promotion
7. Great offer
8. Guarantee
9. Cash
10. Money

If you want a more in-depth look at spam words to eliminate, this article lists 100 of the worst offending spam words.

However, spam words are not the only issues to avoid or eliminate in social marketing posts. Here are four more ways to avoid spam techniques and create more powerful posts to keep your social network content from looking too spammy:

2. Avoid Using ALL CAPS 

Full caps may seem like a good way to draw attention, but the technique makes your posts look like a shout for attention that most people will want to ignore. All caps words make social media posts harder to read and make your emotional words no more powerful than all the other caps. And since using all caps is often perceived as shouting, these posts are considered rude as well as spammy.

Posts that clamor for attention but don't provide relevant information are considered spam. Consider the following related tips.

3. Don't Overuse Colored Fonts 

Colored fonts usually look unprofessional, but if you need to use a color for a font, unless you are promoting a carnival or kiddie event, use only one color. Again, trying to draw attention with trickytechniques and not with solid content is a sure way to be perceived as spammy on social media platorms.

4. Don't Use Too Many Exclamation Points!

Exclamation points are the emojis of punctuation. One is enough, and typically even one isn't needed. An exclamation mark can also make your social media post look more like a sales pitch than a benefit statement.

5. Avoid the Use of Texting Abbreviations Like "4U" 

Texting abbreviations are neither professional nor clever and should usually be avoided in social media marketing. In fact, they show up on lists of spam words. Just say no.

Keeping social media marketing posts free of spammy words and unprofessional techniques will ensure your readers and followers are more likely to read your posts and get your message.

Related: 

• Top 3 Ways to Engage Readers on Social Media
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• Social Media: The Power of Posting Frequently
• Social Media Marketing by the Numbers for 2019

About Kathryn Darden:
 
Darden was trained by Yahoo and Examiner on effective ways to utilize social media and SEO to promote her articles for their online platforms. Since then she has worked with numerous clients to promote everything from music to video games, from skincare to traditional brick and mortar businesses. She is the author of “How to Promote Your Book on a Shoestring Budget.”  Connect with Darden.

Top 5 Ways to Promote Your Social Media Networks

 Social media marketing is an important part of most business strategies in today's world. In the last article we talked about Why You Should Promote Your Social Media Networks. Now lets talk about the five best ways to promote your social media platforms.

Your business may be on the cutting edge and have their own marketing department with a social media manager. Or you might have hired a social media consultant to help you with your social marketing and advertising.

If neither of these applies to you, you have probably allocated several hours a week of your personal time to do your own marketing on platforms like Facebook and Twitter. In any case, you want to take an active role in promoting your social media networks to lend credibility to the marketing you will do on those platforms.

Here are five effective ways to promote your social media networks:

1. Word of mouth
Tell people you talk to that you are on specific social media networks. You don't reach many people this way, but it is personal and often more memorable to hear about it first hand from you.

2. Add them to your business website
List your social media platforms on your business's Contact page or About Us page. Along with your address, phone number and website, your social media presence is vitally important to promote on your business website. It doesn't hurt to add your strongest platform to your business card, either.

3. Send an email to your list
Send an email to your customer list and other lists letting them know you have social media networks and giving them a valid reason to check out your platforms and follow them. Focus on what your clients can get out of following your social networks. Include a link in your email and a reason to go join or follow your account.

 4. Blog about your social networks
Do you have a personal blog or a business blog? Another way to promote your social platforms (and your business) is to write about them on your blog occasionally. And if you don't have a blog yet, why not start one?

5. Share on your other social platforms
Are you already on Facebook, LinkedIn, Twitter or other social networks with a personal or business account? These are great places to promote any new social networks you or your new marketing consultant may create.

When you promote a network to other social platforms or your blog, be sure to focus on what your followers will get out of it. Follow up with more posts: social content never reaches everybody, so post something about your new platform/s several times over a week. Try to change the text of each post and post on different days of the week at different times so your posts don't become redundant and spammy.

Social media marketing is a great strategy to raise the visibility and increase the clientele of a business, but it works even better if you also promote all of your social media platforms.

Read the Series:

• Social Media: Top 5 Things Your Audience Wants to Know
• Social Media: The Power of Posting Frequently
• Social Media Marketing by the Numbers for 2019

About Kathryn Darden:
 
Darden was trained by Yahoo and Examiner on effective ways to utilize social media and SEO to promote her articles for their online platforms. Since then she has worked with numerous clients to promote everything from music to video games, from skincare to traditional brick and mortar businesses. She is the author of “How to Promote Your Book on a Shoestring Budget.”  Connect with Darden.

Social Media: The Power of Posting Frequently

How many posts a day does this man want to see on his computer?

Social media marketing is obviously a key way to reach new and existing customers in 2019, but it takes savvy and experience to know how often to use this relatively new form of marketing to develop a social media marketing strategy.

Your social media platforms need regular posts of relevant, engaging information to showcase your business to the your customers, potential clients, influencers, and other readers. But how often should you post on social networks like Facebook and Twitter to achieve powerful results?

The answer is -- it varies by platform. Some social networks work well with only a couple of posts per day, and others need more posts more often throughout the day. That's right--the amount of daily posting you should do on LinkedIn, for instance, is totally different from what you should be doing on Pinterest or Instagram every day, so your social marketing strategy is different for each platform.

Here is a brief rundown of how often you should be posting on the most popular social media platforms of 2019 to be effective.


Post Once or Twice a Day on Facebook, LinkedIn & Instagram

According to this article, Ahalogy says you should post once a day on Facebook so you don't come across as spammy, and LocalVox recommends the same for LinkedIn. It's about the same for Instagram. Buffer suggests one or two business posts a day on that platform.

Post Five to Thirty Times a Day on Twitter & Pinterest

On the other hand, a Quick Sprout survey found a higher daily frequency on Twitter is best, recommending between 5–20 times every day, and Ahology suggests 15-30 pins a day on Pinterest. 

These rules also vary based on the types of posted. Personal posts can go out more often while a business's social media marketing posts should be more restrained. A good social media plan will incorporate these differences into its marketing strategy.

If you need help determining what to post and how often to post it,  let's connect. 

Related:

• Social Media Marketing by the Numbers for 2019
• Social Media: Top 5 Things Your Audience Wants to Know

About Kathryn Darden:
 
Darden was trained by Yahoo and Examiner on effective ways to utilize social media and SEO to promote her articles for their online platforms. Since then she has worked with numerous clients to promote everything from music to video games, from skincare to traditional brick and mortar businesses. She is the author of “How to Promote Your Book on a Shoestring Budget.”  Connect with Darden.