{"id":372678,"date":"2018-08-09T06:12:59","date_gmt":"2018-08-09T05:12:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/prison-planet-com-the-bizarre-facebook-path-to-corporate-fascism\/"},"modified":"2018-08-09T06:12:59","modified_gmt":"2018-08-09T05:12:59","slug":"prison-planet-com-the-bizarre-facebook-path-to-corporate-fascism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/prison-planet-com-the-bizarre-facebook-path-to-corporate-fascism\/","title":{"rendered":"Prison Planet.com \u00bb The Bizarre Facebook Path To Corporate Fascism"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>      <!-- START CONTENT --><\/p>\n<p><strong>Glen Ford<\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/blackagendareport.com\/bizarre-facebook-path-corporate-fascism\"><br \/>Black Agenda Report<em><br \/><\/em><\/a>August 8, 2018<\/p>\n<p><strong>Facebook has assumed additional political police powers, disrupting a planned counter-demonstration against white supremacists, set for August 12th in Washington, on the grounds that it was initiated and inspired by \u201cRussians\u201d as part of a Kremlin campaign to \u201csow dissention\u201d in the U.S.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><u>The Facebook intervention is a qualitative escalation of the McCarthyite offensive<\/u> launched by the Democrat Party and elements of the national security state, and backed by most of the corporate media, initially to blame Hillary Clinton\u2019s 2016 defeat on \u201ccollusion\u201d between Wikileaks, \u201cthe Russians\u201d and the Trump campaign to steal and publicize embarrassing Clinton campaign emails.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/sites\/default\/files\/inline-images\/Glen__845x400%20%281%29%204.22.32%20PM.jpg?itok=UlOX1Jz9\" data-image-external-href=\"\" data-image-href=\"http:\/\/www.prisonplanet.com\/sites\/default\/files\/inline-images\/Glen__845x400%20%281%29%204.22.32%20PM.jpg?itok=UlOX1Jz9\" data-link-option=\"0\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/sites\/default\/files\/inline-images\/Glen__845x400%20%281%29%204.22.32%20PM.jpg\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/inline_image_desktop\/public\/inline-images\/Glen__845x400%20%281%29%204.22.32%20PM.jpg?itok=UlOX1Jz9 1x\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"237\" data-entity-type=\"file\" data-entity-uuid=\"449be4a2-5977-4849-a9e2-1130ce1b5a8b\" data-responsive-image-style=\"inline_images\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>After failing to produce one shred of hard evidence to support their conspiracy theory, the anti-Russia hysteria mongers switched gears, focusing on the alleged purchase of about $100,000 in Facebook ads by the Internet Research Agency (IRA), a St. Petersburg-based Russian company, over a multi-year period.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The problem was, most of the ads had no direct connection to the presidential contest, or were posted after the election was over, and many had no political content, at all. The messages were all over the place, politically, with the alleged Russian operatives posing as Christian activists, pro- and anti-immigration activists, and supporters of the Black Lives Matter Movement. <strong>Special prosecutor Robert Mueller was forced to flip the script,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/02\/16\/us\/politics\/russians-indicted-mueller-election-interference.html\">indicting 13 Russians\u00a0<\/a>for promoting general \u201cdiscord\u201d and undermining \u201cpublic confidence in democracy\u201d in the United States \u2013 thus creating a political crime that has not previously been codified in the United States.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>In doubling down on an unraveling conspiracy tale, the Mueller probe <strong>empowered itself to tar and feather all controversial speech that can be associated with utterances by \u201cRussians,\u201d even if the&#8230;<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.prisonplanet.com\/the-bizarre-facebook-path-to-corporate-fascism.html\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Glen FordBlack Agenda ReportAugust 8, 2018 Facebook has assumed additional political police powers, disrupting a planned counter-demonstration against white supremacists, set for August 12th in Washington, on the grounds that it was initiated and inspired by \u201cRussians\u201d as part of a Kremlin campaign to \u201csow dissention\u201d in the U.S. The Facebook intervention is a qualitative [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-372678","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/372678","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=372678"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/372678\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=372678"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=372678"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=372678"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}