Saturday, January 23, 2021

Facebook purges left-wing pages and individuals

The accounts broke no rules and no reason was given for deleting the them. 


 On Friday, Facebook carried out a purge of left-wing, antiwar and progressive pages and accounts, including leading members of the Socialist Equality Party. Facebook gave no explanation why the accounts were disabled or even a public acknowledgement that the deletions had occurred.

Since the 2016 election, the US intelligence agencies have advocated internet censorship in the name of fighting “fake news.” While these actions have been presented as targeting far-right conspiracy theories, they have in fact disproportionately affected left-wing, antiwar and socialist organizations.

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Facebook purges left-wing pages and individuals

11 comments:

Ralph Musgrave said...

I've been pointing out for at least a year that Facebook has been moving to the right. In fact they've been doing that since Zuckerberg's announcement about year ago that he backed free speech.

Far as I know mainstream media haven't caught up with this development yet, but give them another fifty years and they may cotton on.

Tom Hickey said...

Facebook has been moving to the right

Maybe cynical, but I suspect that someone other than the management is directing the censorship that this taking place in Big Tech. not only FB.

The First Amendment says that government shall make now law regarding protected rights, but that doesn't include giving direction, and if it is anonymous, about the only ways to know are either whistleblowing or testimony compelled under oath.

And the government has publicly offered advice in this matter using a net with a fine mesh that filters out a whole lot that may not be as implied, that is, just about anyone not toeing the party line regardless of credentials and reputation. Pillars of Russia’s Disinformation and Propaganda Ecosystem

In fact there is a joke in Russia now that when the USSR fell, Pravda moved to the US and unlike people of the USSR with Pravada, people in the US are falling for it.

lastgreek said...

Am I the only one who has never been on Facebook?

Why people put their personal stuff online is beyond me. Might as well put a live camera in your bedroom 😜

Matt Franko said...

“ Pravda moved to the US and unlike people of the USSR with Pravada, people in the US are falling for it.”

Yo It’s called “fake news”...

You know who started this was Hillary... she was the first person ever to start to complain about Alex Jones in an official speech years ago... like it was real... ever since then all the left wing idiots have taken all the fake stuff as real/literal... like this “trump shaman!” and “qanon” etc... they left wing morons think that stuff is literal...

See AOC saying Ted Cruz thinks the “Paris Climate Accords” are about the climate in only the Paris area... same thing..

Matt Franko said...

See our Greek here and many other dumb leftists thinking trumps referral to UV light as a disinfectant means trump was recommending drinking bleach as they don’t understand that uv light can act as a disinfectant... never took Electromagnetism too stupid to get thru it... finger painting 101 for college credit a lot easier..

Matt Franko said...

Here this is moron Hillary who started all of this right here:

https://youtu.be/jMsymSHbwl8

Dope probably thinks WWE is real too...

lastgreek said...

"...they left wing morons think that stuff is literal...as they don’t understand that uv light can act as a disinfectant."

Yes, we know, but not "inside the body" -- the grifter's exact words. [snicker]

Just like when the grifter said on national TV that he was popping hydroxi-whatever and recommended to his dupes that they should do the same. And wouldn't you know it, some dumb Trump dupe (aren't they all dupes?) died ingesting some similar shit. OK, one less American Trump dupe, but--

Peter Pan said...

Lets see how long this page stays up:
Alt Left

Matt Franko said...

Yo It’s a REAL device Art degree moron:

http://www.glenatlasmd.com/dentistry/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/VAP-ZAP.pdf

Trump was briefed on it...

Go back to your finger painting leave the REAL world to us STEM people we’ll handle it...

lastgreek said...

“Trump was briefed on it...”

I bet finger paintings were used to get the “science guy’s” attention:

“Suppose that we hit the body with a tremendous, whether it's ultraviolet or just very powerful light,” Trump said at a White House coronavirus briefing on 23 April, before continuing: “Supposing you brought the light inside the body, which you can do either through the skin or in some other way.”




Peter Pan said...

A tanning salon... with UV nanobots.