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Facebook Allows Governments to Decide What to Censor<\/a><\/h3>\n
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Photo Source Mike Mozart | CC BY 2.0<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

Facebook and other social media companies give governments free reign to censor political dissent on their websites \u2013 and that is not \u201cfake news.\u201d Facebook\u2019s unholy alliance with government actors includes Israel, Saudi Arabia, and the United States. These partnerships have led to arrests and killings both in the US and abroad.<\/p>\n

Glenn Greenwald reported last year on Facebooks\u2019 admission that it unashamedly deletes accounts at the behest of the US and Israeli governments<\/a>. An example he gives is the deletion of the Facebook and Instagram (Facebook owns Instagram) accounts of Chechen leader Ramzan Kadyrov. Facebook\u2019s reasoning was not that he had been accused of human rights violations or due to the content of his page, but simply because he had been added to a United States sanctions list<\/a>. This came after reports that a Facebook delegation had met with Israeli officials to improve \u201ccooperation against incitement<\/a>\u201d \u2013which led to the deletion of pro-Palestinian accounts and news agencies. Hundreds of cases in which Palestinians were arrested for their Facebook posts<\/a>subsequently took place also.<\/p>\n

US support of Israel has a lot to do with maintaining hegemony in the Middle East. One of the reasons Saudi Arabia is such an important partner to the United States government is because of its role of backing US and Israeli policies and influence in the Arab world. An example is Saudi Arabia\u2019s support of US and Israeli efforts to undermine the governments of Iran and Syria.<\/p>\n

US social media companies work with the Saudi Arabian government to censor dissent and to cover up wrongdoing. In August, when news broke out that Saudi Arabia was planning on beheading Esra al-Ghamgam for peacefully protesting (which they did<\/a>) Facebook and Twitter deleted hundreds of anti-Saudi accounts<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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Facebook Allows Governments to Decide What to Censor Photo Source Mike Mozart | CC BY 2.0 Facebook and other social media companies give governments free reign to censor political dissent on their websites \u2013 and that is not \u201cfake news.\u201d Facebook\u2019s unholy alliance with government actors includes Israel, Saudi Arabia, and the United States. These […]<\/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":[120,5493,22865,3484,1493,2779,5437,379,1049,701,1169,827],"class_list":["post-40303","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-liberty","tag-censorship","tag-counterpunch","tag-david-archuleta-jr","tag-dissent","tag-facebook","tag-fake-news","tag-glenn-greenwald","tag-government","tag-israel","tag-saudi-arabia","tag-social-media","tag-united-states"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40303","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=40303"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40303\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":40304,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40303\/revisions\/40304"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=40303"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=40303"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=40303"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}