Mass PURGE Of Alternative Media On Facebook and Twitter
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🗓️ 12 October 2018
⏱️ 12 minutes
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Summary
Facebook Just PURGED Over 800 Political Accounts for what they call spamming and inauthentic behavior. Many of those banned are crying foul saying they didn't break any rules. Some believe this is Facebook purging political content just before the mid terms to prevent "meddling."
Is this a case of censorship or is Facebook actually doing the right thing?
Many of the pages removed were left and some were far left but they did happen to remove many right wing pages as well.
Unfortunately as many people were calling out this behavior in the past social justice activists and feminists cheered when major social media banned people, now that it is affecting pages they like they are upset. But this is exactly what we said would happen.
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| 0:00.0 | A massive purge of Facebook pages, mostly left-wing anti-establishment outlets, |
| 0:06.7 | some with millions of followers were all unpublished by Facebook. Basically, this means they were banned. |
| 0:13.2 | We've got the midterm elections coming up. So, naturally, Twitter, Facebook, and all these |
| 0:17.0 | other social media platforms are trying to prevent election meddling. From this, we have seen some |
| 0:22.0 | people on Twitter get suspended for posting misleading information about the elections, most notably |
| 0:26.7 | James Woods, who eventually did get his account back. Now, we're seeing that a bunch of political, |
| 0:31.2 | mostly left-wing Facebook pages are getting banned. And it's kind of interesting to me, because there |
| 0:35.4 | are a lot of people who are far lefty activist types who left when Alex Jones got banned. And when |
| 0:41.0 | I posted in defense of the right two posts, not in defense of the content Jones created, they said, |
| 0:47.2 | you're defending Alex Jones. No, I was defending the principle. And what happens? Some of these very |
| 0:52.9 | same people are now complaining that the content they like has just been banned for basically the same |
| 0:58.9 | reason, posting misleading information. But this is actually a really interesting story that a lot of |
| 1:04.4 | people don't seem to understand. People are looking at this and thinking it's just a case of Facebook |
| 1:09.2 | censoring political discourse. But it actually might be that Facebook's not wrong in this matter, |
| 1:15.2 | because I actually have some insider knowledge of what was going on with some of these pages. So first, |
| 1:19.8 | let's take a look at the Los Angeles Times to see just who got banned by Facebook. But before we do |
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| 1:30.5 | the backbone of the content I create. So if you like videos like this and you like the videos on my |
| 1:34.9 | second channel, please go to patreon.com-forthslash-timcast to help support my work. Facebook purged over 800 |
| 1:42.4 | accounts and pages pushing political messages for profit. Facebook said Thursday that it purged more |
| 1:47.4 | than 800 US publishers and accounts for flooding users with politically oriented content that violated |
| 1:53.2 | the company's spam policies, a move that could reignite accusations of political censorship. The |
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