{"id":397267,"date":"2019-02-26T06:19:09","date_gmt":"2019-02-26T05:19:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/presstv-%e2%80%8b%e2%80%8b%e2%80%8b%e2%80%8b%e2%80%8b%e2%80%8b%e2%80%8bfacebook-restores-previously-banned-russia-linked-pages\/"},"modified":"2019-02-26T06:19:09","modified_gmt":"2019-02-26T05:19:09","slug":"presstv-%e2%80%8b%e2%80%8b%e2%80%8b%e2%80%8b%e2%80%8b%e2%80%8b%e2%80%8bfacebook-restores-previously-banned-russia-linked-pages","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/presstv-%e2%80%8b%e2%80%8b%e2%80%8b%e2%80%8b%e2%80%8b%e2%80%8b%e2%80%8bfacebook-restores-previously-banned-russia-linked-pages\/","title":{"rendered":"PressTV-\u200b\u200b\u200b\u200b\u200b\u200b\u200bFacebook restores previously banned \u2018Russia-linked\u2019 pages"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p><strong>Facebook has restored four popular pages related to Russia&#8217;s\u00a0RT\u00a0news channel after abruptly\u00a0suspending them last week.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Facebook made the decision after the pages complied with the social media giant\u2019s order to \u201cdisclose the affiliation of their Pages with its parent companies,\u201d according to a Facebook spokesperson speaking to The Hill on Monday.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The required information has now been added to the About section of these Pages to indicate their affiliation with RT and Ruptly so people can learn who&#8217;s behind the Pages they&#8217;re interacting with on Facebook,&#8221; said the spokesperson.<\/p>\n<p>The Facebook pages of\u00a0InTheNow,\u00a0Soapbox,\u00a0Back Then\u00a0and\u00a0Waste-Ed\u00a0\u2013 were run by a Germany-based company named Maffick Media.<\/p>\n<p>RT has reported the media company to be 51 percent owned by RT&#8217;s video agency Ruptly, with the other 49 percent belonging to\u00a0Maffick CEO Anissa Naouai, an American journalist of Tunisian descent, who formerly worked as a reporter&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.presstv.ir\/Detail\/2019\/02\/26\/589561\/Facebook-restores-banned-pages\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Facebook has restored four popular pages related to Russia&#8217;s\u00a0RT\u00a0news channel after abruptly\u00a0suspending them last week. Facebook made the decision after the pages complied with the social media giant\u2019s order to \u201cdisclose the affiliation of their Pages with its parent companies,\u201d according to a Facebook spokesperson speaking to The Hill on Monday. &#8220;The required information has [&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-397267","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/397267","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=397267"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/397267\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=397267"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=397267"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=397267"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}