orwell's predictions roll forward with little effective resistance, and this article will show you how its being done now, 'in a world where' free speech is but isn't at the same time;
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 Cybersecurity Policy), the massive social media platform explained
that it has removed “559 Pages and 251 accounts that have consistently
broken our rules against spam and coordinated inauthentic behavior.”
This
“inauthentic behavior”, according to Facebook, consists of using
“sensational political content – regardless of its political slant – to
build an audience and drive traffic to their websites,” which is the
same as saying they write about controversial things, and posting those
political articles “in dozens of Facebook Groups, often hundreds of
times in a short period, to drum up traffic for their websites.”
In
other words, the pages were removed for publishing controversial
political content and trying to get people to read it. Not for writing
“fake news”, 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.
https://caitlinjohnstone.com/2018/10/12/facebook-twitter-purge-more-dissident-media-pages-in-latest-escalation/
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