{"id":399161,"date":"2019-03-12T12:55:33","date_gmt":"2019-03-12T11:55:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/prison-planet-com-facebook-bans-zero-hedge\/"},"modified":"2019-03-12T12:55:33","modified_gmt":"2019-03-12T11:55:33","slug":"prison-planet-com-facebook-bans-zero-hedge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/prison-planet-com-facebook-bans-zero-hedge\/","title":{"rendered":"Prison Planet.com \u00bb Facebook Bans Zero Hedge"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Zero Hedge<\/strong><\/a>
March 12, 2019<\/p>\n

Over the weekend, we were surprised to learn that some readers were prevented by Facebook when attempting to share Zero Hedge articles. Subsequently it emerged that virtually every attempt to share or merely mention an article, including in private messages, would be actively blocked by the world\u2019s largest social network, with the explanation that \u201cthe link you tried to visit goes against our community standards.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Facebook has blocked all @zerohedge<\/a> links, throwing up the following message: pic.twitter.com\/iuc3UxWgE1<\/a><\/p>\n

\u2014 Ollie Richardson (@O_Rich_) March 11, 2019<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

We were especially surprised by this action as neither prior to this seemingly arbitrary act of censorship, nor since, were we contacted by Facebook with an explanation of what \u201ccommunity standard\u201d had been violated or what particular filter or article had triggered the blanket rejection of all Zero Hedge content.<\/p>\n

To be sure, as a for-profit enterprise with its own unique set of corporate \u201cethics\u201d, Facebook has every right to impose whatever filters it desires on the media shared on its platform. It is entirely possible that one or more posts was flagged by Facebook\u2019s \u201ctriggered\u201d readers who merely alerted a censorship algo which blocked all content.<\/p>\n

Alternatively, it is just as possible that Facebook simply decided to no longer allow its users to share our content in retaliation for our extensive coverage of what some have dubbed the platform\u2019s \u201cmany problems\u201d, including chronic privacy violations<\/a>, mass abandonment by younger users<\/a>, its gross and ongoing misrepresentation of fake users<\/a>, ironically \u2013 in retrospect \u2013 its systematic censorship\u00a0 <\/a>and back door government cooperation<\/a> (those are just links from the past few weeks).<\/p>\n

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Unfortunately, as noted above, we still don\u2019t know what event precipitated this censorship, and any attempts to get feedback from the company…<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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