Chris Menahan
Information Liberation
October 12, 2018
Mark Zuckerberg and Jack Dorsey just carried out quite possibly the biggest attack on the free press in the history of America and the corporate media is cheering it on.
During the civil war, Abraham Lincoln shut down a few newspapers.
Mark Zuckerberg just shut down 559 pages and 251 accounts — which include tons of massive independent media sites with millions of followers run by Americans — a few weeks out from the midterms.
Jack Dorsey followed it up by banning many of the same independent news sites and the journalists who ran them on Twitter.
The pages included The Free Thought Project, Press For Truth, Anti-Media, Cop Block, Filming Cops, Right Wing News, Noisy Room, Gun Laws Don’t Work, Voluntaryist Veterans and many more.
Antiwar critics of establishment politics @AntiMedia and @TFTPROJECT just had their pages with millions of followers deleted by Facebook, along with hundreds of other alternative media outlets. Latest escalation of corporate censorship used as state censorship in the west. pic.twitter.com/Fdk9Yd13jI
— Caitlin Johnstone (@caitoz) October 11, 2018
UPDATE: It’s coordinated. Twitter’s shutting them down too.https://t.co/QInTJJZMYD
— Caitlin Johnstone (@caitoz) October 11, 2018
UPDATE: Free Thought Project @TFTPROJECT now gone from both Facebook and Twitter as well. There’s definitely some kind of coordination or overlap going on behind the scenes between the two platforms.
— Caitlin Johnstone (@caitoz) October 12, 2018
Holy shit. The Anti-Media’s Page was just removed from Twitter. So Twitter and Facebook are coordinating this.
I know this literally just happened because they RT’ed me an hour ago. pic.twitter.com/RFi280YERD
— Ford Fischer (@FordFischer) October 11, 2018
Carey Wedler of Antimedia was suspended from Twitter during today’s indie media/anarchist social media purge.
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