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‘Land of censorship & home of the fake’: Alternative voices on Facebook and Twitter’s crackdown
‘Land of censorship & home of the fake’: Alternative voices on Facebook and Twitter’s crackdown Cardboard cutouts of Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg seen at a protest in Washington DC © Reuters / Aaron P. Bernstein Alternative voices online are incensed after Facebook and Twitter closed down hundreds of political media pages ahead of November’s crucial […]
Internet Censorship Just Took An Unprecedented Leap Forward, And Hardly Anyone Noticed
Internet Censorship Just Took An Unprecedented Leap Forward, And Hardly Anyone Noticed While most indie media was focused on debating the way people talk about Kanye West and the disappearance of Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi, an unprecedented escalation in internet censorship took place which threatens everything we all care about. It received frighteningly little attention. After […]
Facebook, Twitter Purge More Dissident Media Pages In Latest Escalation
Facebook, Twitter Purge More Dissident Media Pages In Latest Escalation Facebook has purged more dissident political media pages today, this time under the pretense of protecting its users from “inauthentic activity”. In a statement co-authored by Facebook Head of Cybersecurity Nathaniel Gleicher (who also happens to be the former White House National Security Council Director of […]
Why the Coordinated Alternative Media Purge Should TERRIFY Everyone: Soon Those Who Hate Freedom Will Have Unquestioned Access to the Minds of 2 Billion People
Why the Coordinated Alternative Media Purge Should TERRIFY Everyone: Soon Those Who Hate Freedom Will Have Unquestioned Access to the Minds of 2 Billion People Yesterday, the alternative media purge was boldly advanced in a coordinated effort to silence people who dissent from establishment views. It’s just one more step toward a monopoly on information […]
Anti-Defamation League, Facebook, Google & Youtube Appoint Themselves As Official Internet Censor
Anti-Defamation League, Facebook, Google & Youtube Appoint Themselves As Official Internet Censor If you are reading this, that means that articles that speak against the activities of the Anti-Defamation League are not being automatically scrubbed from the internet. Yet. In a foreboding sign that the free expression of opinion on the internet is too much of a threat to […]
Father Of World Wide Web Launches Platform Which Aims To Radically Decentralize The Internet
Father Of World Wide Web Launches Platform Which Aims To Radically Decentralize The Internet “For people who want to make sure the Web serves humanity, we have to concern ourselves with what people are building on top of it,” Tim Berners-Lee told Vanity Fair last month. “I was devastated” he said while going through a litany of […]
Facebook’s New Propaganda Partners
Facebook’s New Propaganda Partners Reuters (9/19/18) described two branches of the National Endowment for Democracy, set up by the Reagan administration during the Cold War to promote US foreign policy objectives, as “two US nonprofits.” Media giant Facebook recently announced (Reuters, 9/19/18) it would combat “fake news” by partnering with two propaganda organizations founded and […]
3 Ways Facebook Is Increasingly Becoming An Arm Of The US Government
3 Ways Facebook Is Increasingly Becoming An Arm Of The US Government Facebook has lately announced a series of major steps it would take to combat fake news and the global spread of misinformation that it says could influence elections, but the more we learn about just who it is Facebook is partnering with in […]
The News Just Ain’t The News No More
The News Just Ain’t The News No More M. C. Escher The Tower of Babel 1928 Two thirds of Americans get at least some of their news on social media. Google and Facebook receive well over 70% of US digital advertising revenues. The average daily time spent on social media is 2 hours. Just a […]
Facebook Plans “War Room” And A.I. Software To Prevent Election Meddling Ahead Of Midterms
Facebook Plans “War Room” And A.I. Software To Prevent Election Meddling Ahead Of Midterms Apparently Facebook thinks it’s the US military, or a NATO command center, or perhaps its millennial employees want to relive the 1980’s cult classic “WarGames” movie. Facebook announced Wednesday that it plans to set up a “war room” at its Silicon Valley […]
New EU Copyright Law Could Force Online Platforms To Ban Memes Across Europe
New EU Copyright Law Could Force Online Platforms To Ban Memes Across Europe A new law being just passed in European Parliament and in the process of becoming finalized has received scant media attention, but could be nothing short of revolutionary in terms of its lasting impact on the internet, political speech and discourse, and the […]
Are Media Matters And George Soros Behind The Social Media Purge?
Are Media Matters And George Soros Behind The Social Media Purge? A nearly two-year-old document reportedly issued by ‘Media Matters for America’ lays out a plan for “defeating Trump” and Republicans over the next four years. But is this strategy actually responsible for the social media taking place on Facebook, Twitter, YouTube and Google? After […]
The Ritual Burial of the US Constitution
The Ritual Burial of the US Constitution Winslow Homer Salt Kettle, Bermuda 1899 In the wake of a number of the Lehman and 9/11 commemorations in America, and as a monster storm is once again threatening to cause outsize damage, we find ourselves at a pivotal point in time, which will decide how the country […]
ThinkProgress Censored By Facebook After Cheerleading Facebook Censorship
ThinkProgress Censored By Facebook After Cheerleading Facebook Censorship In an article last month titled “Facebook announces that fake accounts are now coming not just from Russia”, fauxgressive establishment apologia firm ThinkProgress falsely reported that I have been writing for an outlet that is alleged to be part of an Iranian propaganda campaign. I repeatedlybrought this false claim […]
The Ritual Burial of the US Constitution
The Ritual Burial of the US Constitution Winslow Homer Salt Kettle, Bermuda 1899 In the wake of a number of the Lehman and 9/11 commemorations in America, and as a monster storm is once again threatening to cause outsize damage, we find ourselves at a pivotal point in time, which will decide how the country […]
