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Facebook's New Union Busting Tool & The Return Of Karl Rove's Campaign Playbook
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9:13Now PlayingVia America’s Lawyer: Facebook showcases a new messaging platform for its employees, which administrators can curate to suppress terms like ‘unionize’ from becoming trending topics. Also, president Trump takes a leaf from his predecessors as the November election looms, enlisting Republican strategist Karl Rove for help. Mike Papantonio & Farron Cousins discuss.
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Facebook is trying to help other companies prevent unions from forming with a new tool called Facebook workplace. The tool is going to give employers an overhead look at what employees are saying to each other. And I have Farron Cousins from the trial lawyer magazine and all around just great journalist who writes about these types of things to talk about it. Farron, listen, this, this is, we have watched Zuckerberg turn into from this, this hero of the left to this dark, dark character who understands money matters. Right? So now this is his new money plan. Talk about it.
Right. It's this platform called Facebook workplace. And what it is is it gives an employer like Walmart or Starbucks those are two companies who are using this, their employees can log into their Facebook workplace and it's like a regular Facebook interface, except it's only for those employees. So they can talk to each other about work related items. They can, you know, talk about what happened on the shift and things like that. But management, and this is how Facebook pitched it. Management at those companies has the ability to filter out certain words, basically what they called content control. By doing that by preventing certain words from popping up, like in their presentation, they said, unionize.
Union, unionize.
Yeah, don't use those words. They actually can control the flow of these conversations and almost influence the way these employees are thinking and speaking to one another.
Okay. This, you love this part of it, Starbucks, right? Starbucks, they're, they're the new progressive business young hip, they're using the product.
Yeah.
Okay. You've got Walmart, you'd expect that.Campbell soup, yeah, they're using the product. But here, here's the point. The ugly part of this story, there's so many ugly parts, but one ugly part was they were using this, they would get in a group of CEOs or whoever's making management decisions and say, look, this is what we're selling you. They weren't equivocal. We're selling you this so you can spy people. Then they get caught, right? Spokesman says, oh no, no, no. This was just an idea. We haven't even launched this. Well their, their, their talk was, well, this is a feature only in early development. You think?
Well, and that's, you know, we already have companies that are currently using this. Lee Fang with the intercept is the reporter here, he knows what he's talking about. He did a phenomenal job drilling into this as he always does.
Brilliant, brillaint, brilliant reporter, Lee Fang. We did a story last week when he was victimized by, by one of his coworkers, because he said something that the coworker thought was politically incorrect. This is a great reporter here. So he's digging into this. Nobody else is, are they?
Right, and he's the one who found this information out. He's the one who follows, you know, the rabbits down all these different holes and that's how we know that this is not as Facebook says, oh, it's just something we're kicking around. Maybe an idea for the future. This is something that easily be implemented right now. Some companies are already using it and they're using it to be the thought police of their employees. They do not want them talking about certain things. They do not want to see any criticism coming from them and if they do, they could use that as grounds to, you know, maybe get this rabble rouser who wants a union, get them out of there. Fire them. Move them to a different shift with people who don't like unions.
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