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The Internet’s premier social network—Facebook (FB)—has been manipulating your “organic” news feed…
Only “trending” content is supposed to appear in the feed. Autonomous computer algorithms determine what’s trending… or so the company would have you believe.
But Gizmodo reports former Facebook “news curators” just revealed employees often keep conservative topics from appearing in the feed.
Employees are also told to “inject” stories that aren’t trending on their own… when the topics are important to Facebook’s own political agenda.
It’s not the first time Facebook’s played politics behind the scenes…
- It skewed 1.9 million users’ feeds during the 2012 election.
- In 2010, it conducted an experiment on 61 million users’ news feeds… to see how this impacted voting results. (It boosted voter turnout by about 340,000 people.)
- And at an internal Q&A session, employees recently asked founder Mark Zuckerberg: “What responsibility does Facebook have to prevent President Trump in 2017?”
Now, most folks may find it unethical to manipulate—in secret—the thoughts and actions of hundreds of millions of people. (At any given moment, 167 million people are reading FB news feeds.) But Facebook’s actions are well within its First Amendment rights… ethical issues aside.
The critical takeaway here is to recognize you’re being manipulated… and why.
The rise of the idea masters…
A 60-year consolidation of U.S. media sources saw the number of conventional media companies (television, radio, print) shrink to just six “megafirms.”
They created a virtual stranglehold over the information hitting the American populace… controlling 90% of what Americans read, watch, and listen to.
[If you don’t believe me, watch the two-minute clip below. It gives a taste of how your “local” news is little more than a regurgitation of “central control’s” agenda…]
The advent of the Internet in the mid-1990s splintered “mainstream” media control of ideas online.
It was a golden age of “the free market of ideas”… where an independent blogger could put an alternative message out to the masses.
But it was short-lived.
A few powerhouses have risen up to dominate the Internet. The top three websites (in terms of daily worldwide traffic) are Google (6.5 million unique American viewers per day), YouTube (6 million unique American viewers per day), and Facebook (4.5 million unique American viewers per day).
Facebook now has over 1.65 billion users total. That’s almost 1 out of every 4 people on Earth… and growing.
It’s an inordinate amount of control for one source. If Facebook doesn’t want its users to know about something… the odds are good they’ll be kept in the dark.
That means alternative views on politics… religion… nutrition… medicine… science… and anything else the ruling sites feel threatened by have a harder time seeing the light of day.
And that includes the world of finance and investments…
The income technique Tom “heisted” from Wall Street…
I’ve long wondered how an “anomaly” in today’s income markets could exist in the “Information Age”…
It may be Wall Street’s all-time favorite income strategy… responsible for hundreds of billions in profits over the years. Tom learned the technique while working at one of the world’s largest investment banks.
Since 2012, our Palm Beach Income (PBN) subscribers have used it to earn safe income yields of over 16% per year (in a 0% world).
But despite its extraordinary success, less than 1% of investors know about it. All I can figure is Wall Street and corporate America don’t want Main Street horning in on their favorite income “secret.”
[That would lower their yields, after all… and reduce the amount of investment capital flowing into the more “popular” schemes they feed to the masses. Like “safe” mutual funds with exorbitant fees… and “diversified” portfolios full of just one or two asset classes.]
We’ve covered the PBN technique time and again in these pages…
It’s not a stock, bond, real estate, or other “conventional” investment approach. It’s not an obscure product no one can understand. It’s simple: When you use this technique, you act like an insurance company…
- You provide insurance to other investors who want it.
- They pay a premium in exchange for your “policy.”
- For a period of time (that you choose), you provide insurance in case of trouble.
- That’s it.
Most times, the insured investor doesn’t make a claim at all. You keep the “free” money from his premium payments. And you’re free to offer new policies to other investors who want insurance.
Here’s the best part: You determine who you want to insure and who you don’t. You’re not going to insure the “firetraps” of the investment world—volatile companies with high debt and poor business models.
You’ll only choose to insure the “beachfront properties” of the investment universe—“blue chip” companies that dominate their industries, gush cash, and reward shareholders.
Companies like software titan Microsoft…
Since 2013, Palm Beach Income subscribers have provided “insurance” to Microsoft shareholders on 15 separate occasions. We call these insurance policies “low-ball offers.”
As you can see, every trade—every “insurance policy”—closed as a winner… for an average “instant income” yield of 15.7%, annualized.
Where else in today’s 0% world can you find safe, consistent 16% yields? Better question: Why do most investors never hear about this technique?
Break out
It’s time to recognize—and get past—corporate media manipulation and idea “blackouts.”
Tom’s Palm Beach Income subscribers have enjoyed a 96% win rate since the service started in 2012. That’s 189 out of 197 winning trades overall.
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