all right hello and welcome to colonial outcast the anti-imperialist podcast that your uncle will

hate today we are going to be talking about media bubbles censorship the cancer that is the word

terrorist uh and the prelude to the next war i am joined by series regular alenophantos, and we are going to dive right in.

So, first of all, my Instagram account has been blocked to non-followers.

Alina has just lost her original account, and she had to make a new one.

But what's even worse for journalism at large is that there is a multi-platform campaign to de-platform the cradle

media, a journalist-driven news outlet that is free, unowned, and covers geopolitics of West Asia

from within. And, you know, real quick, speaking of being a viable media platform, we are on

Patreon if you want exclusive content

and weekly articles and extra videos. And I hate doing the plug, but I just did the plug,

and now we're going to move on. So the cradle media has just been kicked off of the meta platform,

and here is their response.

It's in West Asia, and its focus is West Asian geopolitics.

We are not going to use foreign monkers to describe and characterize players and actors in this region.

That's never going to happen, and that really seems audacious to them.

If you're writing in English,

you use our language. And we won't do that. We are independent, journalist-driven media.

For Mata to suggest that the cradle or any news organization covering this region wholly or partially

can report on this conflict without quoting from the actors involved directly

in the conflict is ridiculous.

You want us to quote Israeli officials and not quote Hezbollah officials or Hamas officials

or Ansarala officials.

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