Yesterday, Eyeblast.tv launched its "Liberals Behaving Badly" channel to expose the antics of lefties who do things like spit on military veterans, chant "Kill Michelle Malkin!" and swear at Fox News reporters. We promoted the channel on our Facebook "fan" page. Today, only hours after posting the note at Facebook, a friend notified me via Facebook that the administrators at the social-networking site have pegged our channel as "malicious." Indeed it has. This note now appears when you click the "tiny URL" I created for the channel: "The link you have clicked has been identified by Facebook as a malicious web site. For the safety and privacy of your Facebook account, we strongly suggest you avoid visiting this address." So let me get this straight: Eyeblast.tv creates a channel that shows liberals acting uncouth and suppressing the free speech of conservatives, and Eyeblast is the malicious one? We can't even tell our fans, who presumably share our views, about a new feature on our Web site without Facebook warning them away? Only in a new media world dominated by liberals. I wonder if Facebook's decision to target Eyeblast over a channel that exposes the bad behavior of liberals has anything to do with the fact that one of its co-founders now works for today's liberal hero, Barack Obama. See this New York Times article for more background. Then go visit our "Liberals Behaving Badly" channel to see why the liberals with their finger on the "malicious" button at Facebook are so agitated. Ironically, their bad behavior toward Eyeblast vindicates the very existence of the channel. It's also proof that conservatives should start using the social-networking tools at Eyeblast.tv to avoid bias at Facebook. UPDATE: I'm hearing from some folks that Facebook has had a problem with truly malicious people posting "tiny URLs" on the walls of Facebook users to spread computer viruses. If that's true, my decision to use the Tiny URL Web site to shorten the "Liberals Behaving Badly" channel address may have triggered the warning. Color me skeptical. I've posted tiny URLs on Facebook many times before and have never had Facebook slap a warning on them. Then again, I think I posted those URLs in my status updates rather than on a wall, so it's possible that thIS malicious warning was for technical reasons, not political ones. If that's true, then the direct link to the channel I posted in a comment on the fan page will continue working. We'll see.
