Without warning or explanation, #Facebook just unpublished hundreds of pages including independent media outlets with millions of followers. Make no mistake, this is an extreme act of censoring the truth. #censorship pic.twitter.com/J54bPcmgBA
— MintPress News (@MintPressNews) October 12, 2018
Facebook has kicked off a new wave of censorship against non-mainstream media activists and outlets.
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Just in time for midterms, Facebook has removed 559 pages and 251 accounts they claim have been spreading misinformation and spam. Several of the pages however – some with millions of followers, were pro-Trump conservatives who had spent years cultivating their followings.
I’ve been memory holed from FaceBook! 350k followers poof gone! There is a dangerous precedent being set here where the big tech companies have appointed themselves as the gate keepers of political thought and opinion! Retweet this if you care about free-speech! #FreeDicks pic.twitter.com/LsnZvaJyOL
— Dan Dicks (@DanDicksPFT) October 11, 2018
Facebook claims that “domestic actors” have been creating “fake pages and accounts to attract people with shocking political news,” reports Bloomberg.
“The people behind the activity also post the same clickbait posts in dozens of Facebook Groups, often hundreds of times in a short period, to drum up traffic for their websites,” Facebook said in a Thursday blog post. “And they often use their fake accounts to generate fake likes and shares. This artificially inflates engagement for their inauthentic pages and the posts they share, misleading people about their popularity and improving their ranking in news feed.”
Some pages Facebook removed had large followings of real and fake accounts. Nation in Distress, a conservative meme page, was followed by more than 3 million people, according to the Internet Archive, which stores historical versions of websites and other online content. –Bloomberg
Facebook has removed "559 Pages and 251 accounts" in the US "that have consistently broken our rules against spam and coordinated inauthentic behavior." They include:
-Nation in Distress
-Reasonable People Unite
-The Resistance
-Reverb Press
-Right Wing News
-Snowflakes— Craig Silverman (@CraigSilverman) October 11, 2018
That said, not all of the accounts with large followings were conservative; Reverb Press, for example, had over 700,000 followers and constantly attacked President Trump and Republicans, who they referred to as “cheating scumbags.”
A third left-leaning page, Reasonable People Unite, posted a screen shot of a Twitter user who said, “Somewhere in America, a teenage girl is listening to her parents defend Brett Kavanaugh and she is thinking to herself, if something like that happens to me, I have nowhere to go.” –WaPo
The digital nanny state strikes again…
First they came for Alex Jones and now @facebook has taken down @DanDicksPFT Press For Truth page! This is insanity, Dan has been one of the most inspirational and rational independent journalists of our era! @DewsNewz @PrisonPlanet @LeighStewy @PressForTruth pic.twitter.com/EA5WatAHUI
— Jason Bermas (@JasonBermas) October 11, 2018
FACEBOOK = FASCIST BOOK
Got 2 accounts erased (and a one that was lasting since 2008). Facebook = Jewbook !
they make you a favor since common sensed did not teach you not to seat on the table of your enemies and support them directly.
Facebook and google do what the host nations require of them. Or they would have to pay taxes or agree to very very expensive legislation against their company
Due to their extreme feelings of superiority and looking down on the rest of humanity whom they call “Goyim”, Jews have historically always drawn up walls around themselves, built up lies as defense mechanisms, and attempted to silence criticism and free speech wherever they went. I’m sad to say but Russia itself is partly responsible for feeding this Satanic kosher machine. By promoting and defending the Holohoax scam, Russia has for decades helped encourage and nourish this beast that requires slaying and putting down. Now that the monster has turned on Russia itself is Russia finally starting to complain and pointing out the obvious, that Jews aren’t interested in facts or debates, they are only interested in telling the Goyim a bunch of easily debunkable lies and punishing those smart enough to point them out.
You can search the entire archives of the internet you will not find even ONE single interview or debate between a Jew defending Jew lies and a Goyim challenging them.
It took me 1 minute to find one…. https://youtu.be/vyuDNsTSXl8 You talk nonsense
Hi kike, there’s no proof that interview is real or if that person even exists. The way the supposed rabbi speaks constantly saying “Oy vey” almost makes it seem like he’s trying to be funny pretending to be a Jew. He makes outlandish claims that are borderline too wild even for you kikes like putting human meat in burgers, etc. I’m not talking about political satire, I’m talking about a real verifiable kike Jew sitting down and debating some Goy about any one of their million different lies. It doesn’t happen because Goys aren’t even allowed to talk about your criminality let alone have them publicly debated with a kike rodent scum.
Fuck off, white trash
Only idiots use facebook for news
Never Had FACE BOOK Never Will
Everyday I am happier and happier that I’ve deleted my FB account!
# Me Too :)
“Facebook community standards” to be listed as such shouldn’t the Community be involved in this ? Facebook can’t make a judgement on a community standard when the word itself defines a community as more than one, thus more people than they need to make that decision.
The “Chickens are coming home to ROOST”
I have been warning for years now via my own email list of Professional Writers, journalists, Business leaders ,Politicians, Intel sources, Activists, etcetera and on many Alternative News sites, such as “Southfront”, “Russia Insider”, “Blackstone Intelligenc”, “Resurrect the Republic”, “Veterans Today”etcetera, that Alternative News Sites and you commenters are only TALKING about what the ENEMY is doing instead of PROVIDING SOLUTIONS and now the price is really starting to come about AND it will get worse until YOUNG PEOPLE in the Alternative News start to DO SOMETHING, instead of just, in effect, “Gossiping”.
If young people, especially in the Alternative News Media, do not start to ORGANIZE and actually do something, such as but not limited to protesting by the THOUSANDS, at Israeli Embassies in your cities, we, the Common Men and Women will be doomed to SLAVERY and GENOCIDE and VERY SOON. You in the ALT Media who continue to put “making a name for yourself”, above ACTION and the MESSAGE, will no longer exist
While you all TALK, the ENEMY ACTS and is why they are winning.YOU and WE are all “Reaping what we have SOWN”. YOU DO NOTHING so YOU and your Children, GET NOTHING
Wake up, before it is too late because the “Midnight Hour” is fast approaching