{"id":39073,"date":"2018-10-12T10:22:38","date_gmt":"2018-10-12T15:22:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=39073"},"modified":"2018-10-12T10:22:38","modified_gmt":"2018-10-12T15:22:38","slug":"facebook-twitter-purge-more-dissident-media-pages-in-latest-escalation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=39073","title":{"rendered":"Facebook, Twitter Purge More Dissident Media Pages In Latest Escalation"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3 class=\"entry-title eltd-post-title\"><a href=\"https:\/\/caitlinjohnstone.com\/2018\/10\/12\/facebook-twitter-purge-more-dissident-media-pages-in-latest-escalation\/\">Facebook, Twitter Purge More Dissident Media Pages In Latest Escalation<\/a><\/h3>\n<div class=\"eltd-blog-single-share\">\n<div class=\"eltd-social-share-holder eltd-dropdown\">\n<div class=\"eltd-social-share-dropdown\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<article id=\"post-5377\" class=\"post-5377 post type-post status-publish format-standard has-post-thumbnail hentry category-article category-news tag-censorship tag-facebook tag-internet-censorship tag-social-media tag-twitter\">\n<div class=\"eltd-post-content\">\n<div class=\"eltd-post-image-area\">\n<div class=\"eltd-post-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"attachment-newsroom_elated_post_feature_image size-newsroom_elated_post_feature_image wp-post-image\" src=\"https:\/\/caitlinjohnstone.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/Screen-Shot-2018-10-12-at-8.24.25-AM.jpg?189db0&amp;189db0\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 946px) 100vw, 946px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/caitlinjohnstone.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/Screen-Shot-2018-10-12-at-8.24.25-AM.jpg 946w, https:\/\/caitlinjohnstone.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/Screen-Shot-2018-10-12-at-8.24.25-AM-300x141.jpg 300w, https:\/\/caitlinjohnstone.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/Screen-Shot-2018-10-12-at-8.24.25-AM-768x360.jpg 768w\" alt=\"\" width=\"946\" height=\"444\" \/><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"eltd-post-text\">\n<div class=\"eltd-post-text-inner clearfix\">\n<p>Facebook has <a href=\"https:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/news\/2018-10-11\/facebook-purges-over-800-accounts-millions-followers-including-conservative-meme\">purged more dissident political media pages<\/a> today, this time under the pretense of protecting its users from \u201cinauthentic activity\u201d. In <a href=\"https:\/\/newsroom.fb.com\/news\/2018\/10\/removing-inauthentic-activity\/\">a statement<\/a>\u00a0co-authored by Facebook Head of Cybersecurity Nathaniel Gleicher (who also happens to be the former White House <a href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/nathaniel-gleicher-32167211\">National Security Council Director<\/a> of Cybersecurity Policy), the massive social media platform explained that it has removed \u201c559 Pages and 251 accounts that have consistently broken our rules against spam and coordinated inauthentic behavior.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>This \u201cinauthentic behavior\u201d, according to Facebook, consists of using \u201csensational political content \u2013 regardless of its political slant \u2013 to build an audience and drive traffic to their websites,\u201d which is the same as saying they write about controversial things, and posting those political articles \u201cin dozens of Facebook Groups, often hundreds of times in a short period, to drum up traffic for their websites.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In other words, the pages were removed for publishing controversial political content and trying to get people to read it. Not for writing \u201cfake news\u201d, but for doing what they could to get legitimate indie media news stories viewed by people who might want to view it. The practice of sharing your material around in Facebook groups is common practice for most independent media content creators; I did it myself a lot in late 2016 and early 2017, and pretty much all my indie media peers at the time did too.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<div class=\"Tweet-header\"><a class=\"TweetAuthor-avatar  Identity-avatar u-linkBlend\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/RachBlevins\" data-scribe=\"element:user_link\" aria-label=\"Rachel Blevins (screen name: RachBlevins)\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"Avatar Avatar--edge\" src=\"https:\/\/pbs.twimg.com\/profile_images\/1035677622104219655\/5sgx6NLb_normal.jpg\" alt=\"\" data-scribe=\"element:avatar\" data-src-2x=\"https:\/\/pbs.twimg.com\/profile_images\/1035677622104219655\/5sgx6NLb_bigger.jpg\" data-src-1x=\"https:\/\/pbs.twimg.com\/profile_images\/1035677622104219655\/5sgx6NLb_normal.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"Tweet-body e-entry-content\" data-scribe=\"component:tweet\">\n<p class=\"Tweet-text e-entry-title\" dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Excellent breakdown the of the Facebook purge by <a class=\"PrettyLink profile customisable h-card\" dir=\"ltr\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/RealAlexRubi\" data-mentioned-user-id=\"2894309192\" data-scribe=\"element:mention\"><span class=\"PrettyLink-prefix\">@<\/span><span class=\"PrettyLink-value\">RealAlexRubi<\/span><\/a> with commentary from some of the page owners who have poured countless hours over the last few years into building reputable Facebook pages that still dare to challenge the mainstream narrative<a class=\"link customisable\" dir=\"ltr\" title=\"https:\/\/sputniknews.com\/us\/201810121068814924-Reporters-Pages-Shut-Down-By-Facebook\/\" href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/oi9aZjDhM8\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" data-expanded-url=\"https:\/\/sputniknews.com\/us\/201810121068814924-Reporters-Pages-Shut-Down-By-Facebook\/\" data-scribe=\"element:url\"><span class=\"u-hiddenVisually\">https:\/\/<\/span>sputniknews.com\/us\/20181012106<span class=\"u-hiddenVisually\">8814924-Reporters-Pages-Shut-Down-By-Facebook\/\u00a0<\/span>\u2026<\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"Tweet-metadata dateline\"><a class=\"u-linkBlend u-url customisable-highlight long-permalink\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/RachBlevins\/status\/1050553311802343429\" data-datetime=\"2018-10-12T01:06:42+0000\" data-scribe=\"element:full_timestamp\"><time class=\"dt-updated\" title=\"Time posted: October 12, 2018 01:06:42 (UTC)\" datetime=\"2018-10-12T01:06:42+0000\">9:06 PM &#8211; Oct 11, 2018<\/time><\/a> \u00b7 <a class=\"u-linkBlend customisable-highlight\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/search?q=place%3A01fbe706f872cb32\">Washington, DC<\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"Tweet-card\">\n<div class=\"PrerenderedCard is-loaded is-constrainedByMaxWidth\" data-card-name=\"summary_large_image\" data-css=\"https:\/\/ton.twimg.com\/tfw\/css\/syndication_bundle_v1_ddfdb6fd0226b10ac0a5e5e568d4d9a92931b34a.css\" data-scribe=\"component:card\">\n<div class=\"TwitterCardsGrid TwitterCard\">\n<div class=\"TwitterCardsGrid-col--12 TwitterCardsGrid-col--spacerBottom CardContent\">\n<div class=\"SummaryCard-image TwitterCardsGrid-col--12\">\n<div class=\"tcu-imageContainer tcu-imageAspect--2to1\">\n<div class=\"tcu-imageWrapper tcu-image-1050553311802343429 js-cspForcedStyle\" data-style=\"background-image: url(https:\/\/pbs.twimg.com\/card_img\/1049264275460636673\/buKAXXOT?format=jpg&amp;name=600x314); background-size: cover;\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"u-block\" src=\"https:\/\/pbs.twimg.com\/card_img\/1049264275460636673\/buKAXXOT?format=jpg&amp;name=600x314\" alt=\"\" \/><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"SummaryCard-contentContainer TwitterCardsGrid-col--12\">\n<div class=\"SummaryCard-content TwitterCardsGrid-ltr\">\n<p class=\"TwitterCard-title js-cardClick tcu-textEllipse--multiline\" dir=\"ltr\"><strong>EXCLUSIVE: Meet the Reporters Whose Pages Were Shut Down By Facebook<\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"tcu-resetMargin u-block TwitterCardsGrid-col--spacerTop tcu-textEllipse--multiline\" dir=\"ltr\">Facebook purged hundreds of pages from its platform on Thursday. But instead of the usual targets &#8211; namely Russia and Iran &#8211; Thursday\u2019s ban shut down accounts operated by independent American&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"u-block TwitterCardsGrid-col--spacerTop SummaryCard-destination\" dir=\"ltr\">sputniknews.com<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<hr \/>\n<p>\u2026click on the above link to read the rest of the article\u2026<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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 \u201cinauthentic activity\u201d. In a statement\u00a0co-authored by Facebook Head of Cybersecurity Nathaniel Gleicher (who also happens to be the former White House National Security Council Director of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[17039,120,3484,1493,22280,1169,819,877],"class_list":["post-39073","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-liberty","tag-caitlin-johnstone","tag-censorship","tag-dissent","tag-facebook","tag-nathaniel-gleicher","tag-social-media","tag-twitter","tag-white-house"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39073","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=39073"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39073\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":39074,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39073\/revisions\/39074"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=39073"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=39073"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=39073"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}