EXCLUSIVE REPORT: @Facebook announces they are deleting posts on their platform because US sanctions make it "illegal to promote any message supporting a person or group" the US government deems a terrorist group. #Iran #FreeSpeech #FreePress @AlanRMacLeod mintpressnews.com/social-media-j…
In a rush to comply with new sanctions, US companies have gone overboard i.e. @PayPal began blocking certain donations to indie media website @TheGrayzoneNews, illustrating exactly how US sanctions are now being weaponized to censor media and free speech. thegrayzone.com/2020/01/09/pay…
On Friday, Silicon Valley giant @Facebook announced it's deleting all positive posts about the #SoleimaniAssassination on its platform and its subsidiary Instagram, which will have profound ramifications for freedom of speech and access to information. edition.cnn.com/2020/01/10/tec…
That Facebook’s actions appear to be coordinated with the U.S. government is not a coincidence. Since 2018 it has partially outsourced its editorial control over news and content to the Atlantic Council, the think tank of NATO.
The Council’s board is a who’s who of high government officials and effectively the “deep state” is controlling what we read, creating something close to a global state-controlled media apparatus. atlanticcouncil.org/about/board-of…
Weaponizing sanctions as a means to censor speech and media is a dangerously slippery slope that could end w social media users, publishers, and journalists arrested and charged for simply posting alternative sides of the Western imperialistic narrative.
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