Facebook/Censorship

Facebook/Censorship (Internet/Censorship)
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Facebook is censorsed (as are Google, YouTube and Twitter), not only on grounds of copyright or indecency, but because certain ideas are deemed as unwelcome on the network. For example, posting about false flag attacks.

Control

The Intercept revealed in December 2017 that Facebook has been deleting accounts on behalf of the US and Israeli governments.

Technologies

Censorship on Facebook combines thousands of human modifiers with software that automatically flags up content based on content (e.g. keywords) and/or user behaviour (e.g. many shares in a short space of time, users flagging it themselves).

"Fake News"

Full article: “Fake News”

Since late 2016, the phrase "fake news" has been used to try to justify censorship of material. Facebook began ^[When?] to use Snopes for "fact checking" but Shopes terminated this collaboration on February 1, 2019.

Hidden censorship

It is unclear to what extent Facebook hides users' posts from one another. What is clear is that:

1. They have this ability
2. It may be difficult to assess

Forbidden topics

Similarly to other commercially-controlled media, the deep state is able to remove content from Facebook. Certain topics seem to be prohibited:

False Flag Attacks

Full article: False Flag Attacks

In 2017 Facebook banned Caitlin Johnstone for 3 days for posting an article about false flag attacks. As a result, she posted a piece entitled I've Been Banned From Facebook for Sharing an Article About False Flags.

Criticism of Israel

Craig Murray reported on 23 Jan 2018 in an article entitled Zionist Censorship on Facebook that "Facebook has just announced that it is employing 10,000 more people to be directly engaged in censorship – ostensibly to weed out “fake news”, which evidently includes disagreement with Israel."

Limitation of access to Facebook

In 2015, the EFF reported that in the South Carolina prison system, accessing Facebook is an offense on par with murder, rape, rioting, escape and hostage-taking, with one inmate receiving more than 37 years in isolation for the 'offence'.

 

Facebook/Censorship victims on Wikispooks

Title	Description
Abiy Ahmed	Ethiopian Prime Minister, censored by Facebook
Christiane Northrup	American doctor; smeared hard during COVID.
Diamond and Silk	African-American Trump supporting sisters, fired from Fox News for questioning COVID

 

Related Quotation

Page	Quote	Author	Date
Integrity Initiative/Leak/3	“Find ways to remove e.g. RT/Ruptly video and infographic content from corporate media e.g. newspaper websites, YouTube, Twitter, Facebook, etc. Such content is quite professionally done, entertaining and cheap (or even free) for cash-strapped corporate media outlets. But for these reasons, this kind of content gets numerous ‘clicks’ and is therefore picked up by reputable outlets that help spread Russian disinformation.”	Victor Madeira	16 March 2018

 

Related Document

Title	Type	Publication date	Author(s)	Description
Document:I've Been Banned From Facebook for Sharing an Article About False Flags	article	17 November 2017	Caitlin Johnstone	Caitlin Johnstone's account of her Facebook censorship experience.

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