Derrick
Broze betoogt in het artikel dat hieronder is opgenomen, dat
Facebooks censuur wordt
gestuurd door het westers
militair-industrieel complex. Zo is de zogenaamd wetenschappelijke
site ‘PropOr Not’, dat zich in de praktijk bezighoudt met het brengen
van anti-Russische propaganda, onderdeel van The Interpreter en dat
is op haar beurt onderdeel van Broadcasting Board of Governors,
een organisatie die VS propaganda over de wereld verspreid met een
stuk of zes mediaorganen zoals ‘Voice of America’ (VOA).
Ook
de Atlantic Council is een lobbyorgaan van het militair-industrieel
complex, waar de NAVO een dikke vinger in de smerige pap heeft…….
Het artikel van Broze komt van zijn website The Conscious Resistance, ik nam het over van Anti-Media:
The
Facebook Purge of Independent Media: What You’re Not Being Told
October
15, 2018 at 11:26 am
Written
by Derrick
Broze
Victims
of Facebook’s most recent purge should not forget the connections
between the social media giant and the Western Military-Industrial
Complex.
(CR) — On
Thursday, Facebook announced they were unpublishing, or purging, over
500 pages and 200 accounts who are accused of spreading political
spam. Several of these pages and writers were also removed from
Twitter on the same day.
“Today,
we’re removing 559 Pages and 251 accounts that have consistently
broken our rules against spam and coordinated inauthentic
behavior,” Facebook
stated in a blog post. Facebook
states that the people behind this alleged spam “create networks of
Pages using fake accounts or multiple accounts with the same names”
and “post the same clickbait posts in dozens of Facebook Groups”.
Essentially,
Facebook is accusing these pages of writing articles related to
politics and then using the social media platform to…. post the
articles in as many places as possible to reach as many people as
possible. Hardly dangerous or scary stuff. However, these actions are
in violation of Facebook’s Terms of Service. Facebook also accused
the pages and accounts of using their fake accounts to generate fake
likes and shares which may artificially inflate their reach and
mislead people about their popularity. According to Facebook, “This
activity goes against what people expect on Facebook, and it violates
our policies against spam.”
Facebook
also stated that “sensational political content” from across the
political spectrum is being used to “build an audience and drive
traffic to their websites, earning money for every visitor to the
site”. Again, this does not qualify as dangerous or threatening
activity. This is a standard practice for most media outlets who are
trying to earn revenue to pay writers, editors, social media
managers, etc. It is true that some of the pages on this list (see
below for a current list) have indeed used clickbait headlines or
even posts that are likely untrue. However, the list also includes
legitimate independent news outlets such as The Anti Media, The Free
Thought Project, Cop Block, and Police the Police, which focused on
countering mainstream and establishment narratives related to
politics and police.
Facebook’s
statement that the pages and accounts were “often indistinguishable
from legitimate political debate” begs the question – which pages
and accounts are “legitimate political debate”? And by which
metric does Facebook decide what counts as legitimate? These
questions are yet to be answered. Perhaps with time Facebook will
come clean about their process, but in the meantime it’s important
to reflect on Facebook’s recent partnership with the Atlantic
Council and attempts to stifle the flow of information in the name of
fighting “fake news”.
The
fight against Fake News started immediately following the election of
Donald Trump. In November 2016, Merrimack College associate professor
Melissa Zimdars posted a public Google document titled, “False,
Misleading, Clickbait-y, and/or Satirical ‘News’ Sources” which
went viral after being reported on by most corporate mainstream
outlets. This list lumped in some of the same outlets which fell
victim to Facebook’s most recent purge with actual fake news
websites which are well known among the indie and alt media industry.
Within a matter of weeks, a new list appeared online from an
organization calling itself PropOrNot, an allegedly independent group
of researchers trying to find the truth about the dissemination of
Russian propaganda and fake news. This list also contained names of
prominent independent media outlets like Anti-Media, The Corbett
Report, MintPress News, and many others.
It
was this combination of the Zimdars list and the PropOrNot list which
had the immediate effect of placing a target on the vast majority of
independent journalists and outlets who were now being accused of
directly or indirectly conspiring with the Russians. Websites and
social media pages for these outlets began suffering a drastic
reduction in reach and interaction with their audiences and many
websites lost access to Google advertising money due to these false
associations.
The
problem is that the majority of the mainstream media unquestionably
reported on and repeated the claims made by these two lists without
any attempt at investigative work. For example, PropOrNot claims they
are “completely independent” and “nonpartisan” because they
are not funded by anyone and have no formal institutional
affiliations or political connections.
They
say the must remain anonymous for now because they are a “are
civilian Davids taking on a state-backed adversary Goliath”.
However, a report by Russian news outlet Sputnik (yes, I am aware
many readers will automatically scream, “Fake news!”, but I
encourage you to read on.) challenges the alleged unbiased nature of
PropOrNot.
Sputnik
reports that
George Eliason, a Ukraine-based investigative journalist, authored an
expose of PropOrNot in which he argued the organization was
a “deep-state hitjob on alternative news outlets”.
“So
when you’re looking at PropOrNot, it’s just basic
investigative techniques. Who are they — that’s the first
thing you need to know,” Eliason told Sputnik. “So you look
them up on the web and you find nothing. I went to their
website and did a basic scan, and the
funny thing about PropOrNot is that to get into their
website, you need to be logged into the dashboard of The
Interpreter magazine.”
So
who runs The Interpreter?
Eliason
states that “The Interpreter is also overseen by the the
Broadcasting Board of Governors, who run Voice of America
and half a dozen other US propaganda projects across the globe”.
In
addition, “The Interpreter is a product of the Atlantic
Council committee, who is basically setting our foreign policy right
now in Eastern Europe and Russia,” Eliason stated. “They’re
an NGO, they work outside the government, and they work with the
Ukrainian diaspora. They actually have a signed contract with the
diaspora — you can view them signing it.”
The
important takeaway from this report is that only 4 months later, in
May 2018, Facebook announced
a new partnership with the Atlantic Council – the
same think tank tied to PropOrNot – which officially claims to
provide a forum for international political, business, and
intellectual leaders. Facebook said the partnership is aimed at
preventing the social media tool from “being abused during
elections.” The
press release promoted
Facebook’s efforts to fight fake news by using artificial
intelligence, as well as working with outside experts and
governments.
The
Atlantic Council of the United States was established in 1961 to
bolster support for international relations. Although not officially
connected to the North Atlantic Treaty Organization, the Atlantic
Council has spent decades promoting causes and issues which are
beneficial to NATO member states. In addition, The Atlantic Council
is a member of the Atlantic Treaty Organization, an umbrella
organization which “acts as a network facilitator in the
Euro-Atlantic and beyond.” The ATA* works similarly to the Atlantic
Council, bringing together political leaders, academics, military
officials, journalists and diplomats to promote values that are
favorable to the NATO member states. Officially, ATA is independent
of NATO, but the line between the two is razor thin.
Essentially,
the Atlantic Council is a think tank which can offer companies or
nation states access to military officials, politicians, journalists,
diplomats, etc. to help them develop a plan to implement their
strategy or vision. These strategies often involve getting NATO
governments or industry insiders to make decisions they might not
have made without a visit from the Atlantic Council team. This allows
individuals or nations to push forth their ideas under the cover of
hiring what appears to be a public relations agency but is actually
selling access to high-profile individuals with power to affect
public policy. Indeed, everyone from George H.W. Bush to Bill Clinton
to the family of international agent of disorder Zbigniew Brzezinski
have spoken at or attended council events.
The
list of financial supporters reads like a who’s-who of think tanks
and Non-Governmental Organizations. The Atlantic Council receives
funding from the Brookings Institution, Carnegie Endowment, Cato
Institute, Council on Foreign Relations, and the Rand Corporation, to
name a few. In addition, various members of the Military-Industrial
Complex are benefactors of the Atlantic Council, including Huntington
Ingalls, the United States’ sole maker of aircraft carriers;
Airbus, the plane manufacturer; Lockheed Martin, the shipbuilder and
aviation company; and Raytheon, which makes missile systems. All of
the companies have contracts with the U.S.
Department
of Defense and offer financial support to the Atlantic Council. The
Council also receives support from Chevron and the Thomson Reuters
Foundation. Finally, the Atlantic Council receives direct financial
support from the U.S. Departments of the Air Force, Army, Navy and
Energy and from the U.S. Mission to NATO.
Is
it possible Facebook is acting under the direction of their partners
at the Atlantic Council to suppress anti-war, anti-establishment
voices three weeks before the U.S. midterm elections? It is
absolutely possible and likely.
We
should also remember this is not the first time Facebook has deleted
accounts which operate outside the mainstream corporate media. In
August, Facebook
deleted accounts containing
“fringe or holistic medicine”, including Just Natural Medicine (1
million followers), Natural Cures Not Medicine (2.3 million
followers), and People’s Awakening (3.6 million followers). The
same month Facebook and Twitter deleted pages they claimed
were connected
to Iran and Russia.
This
entire ongoing attack of independent media and free thought stemmed
from the establishment media’s nonstop coverage of what has become
known as fake news. Anyone and everyone who has countered the
establishment narrative of endless war, a growing surveillance and
police state, and an allegedly growing divide in American politics,
has been labeled a Russian bot, accomplice, or useful idiot. One way
or another, the message is clear: stand against the establishment and
you will be labeled an enemy of the state.
By
spreading the fake news meme the elitists behind the American power
centers are able to attack growing independent media icons by
painting them as propagators of false Russian propaganda. The media
is also using this fake news meme and Russian prop to accuse Trump of
being an illegitimate president, further playing into the “Trump is
an outsider” narrative. All of this is being done with the goal of
keeping the domestic front as divided as possible while selling the
brainwashed masses into another war. Coincidentally, all of this
non-sense is taking place while the corporate media spreads lies
about Syria and Russia.
It’s
more important than ever to remain level headed and use critical
thinking. It’s never been more important to follow the pages that
were purged directly from their websites. See the full list below and
decide which outlets you want to continue to support in the
information war.
List
of pages taken down on Thursday October 11, 2018:
The
Free Thought Project – 3.1 million fans
The Anti-Media – 2.1
million fans
Police the Police – 1.9 million fans
Cop Block –
1.7 million fans
Filming Cops – 1.4 million fans
Rachel
Blevins – 69,000 fans
V is For Voluntary – 160,000 fans
End
the War on Drugs – 460,000 fans
Mass Report – 500,000 fans
Get
Involved, You Live Here – 360,000 fans
Press for Truth –
350,000 fans
Political Junkie News Media – 300,000 fans
Murica
Today – 180,000 fans
Choice & Truth – 2.9 million fans
You
won’t see this on TV – 172,000 fans
Modern Slavery Hilarious
Vines – 129,000 fans
Fuck the Government – 168,000 fans
Punk
Rock Libertarians – 190,000 fans
Reverb Press – 700,000
fans
Nation In Distress – 3.2 million fans
Free Your Mind
Conference – 75,000 fans
Right Wing News – 3.6 million
fans
Reasonable People United
Psychologic Anarchist
Policing
the Police
Cop Logic
Legalizing Cannabis
Hemp
End the
Drug War
Anonymous News
By Derrick
Broze / Republished
with permission / Conscious
Resistance / Report
a typo
* ATA zou in dit geval moeten staan voor Atlantic Treaty Association, vrees dat hier een spelfout werd gemaakt, ATA werkt vanuit Roemenië en is een organisatie die VS propaganda steunt, echter gezien niet één verdere verwijzing, vraag ik me af of deze organisatie wordt bedoeld.
Zie ook:
‘Robert Epstein: Google en Facebook corrumperen de politiek en manipuleren de presidentsverkiezingen‘
‘Facebook staat valse informatie toe tijdens de (voor-) verkiezingen van het presidentschap in de VS‘
‘Facebook gebruikte ‘fake news’ beschuldiging om de aandacht voor schandalen af te leiden‘
‘New York Times: eerste Israëlische inval in Gazastrook sinds 2014 >> fake news!‘
‘Noord-Koreaans ‘bedrog met nucleaire deal’ is fake news o.a. gebracht door de New York Times‘
‘‘Fake News’ misbruikt door dictaturen en de reguliere (massa-) media‘
‘Russiagate sprookje ondermijnt VS democratie en de midterm verkiezingen‘
‘Facebooks zuivering van de alternatieve (nieuws) media staat nog in de kinderschoenen‘
‘Politico rapport bevestigt: Russiagate is een hoax‘
‘The US military’s vision for state censorship‘
‘Israël en VS werken samen in tegenwerken van critici op beleid t.a.v. Palestijnen‘
‘Facebook censureert de waarheid over Columbus en de verovering van de Amerika’s…….‘
‘Why the Coordinated Alternative Media Purge Should Terrify Everyone‘ (Tyler Durden op Zero Hedge)
‘First They Came for Alex Jones — We Told You We Were Next — We Were‘ (Matt Agorist op The Free Thought Project)
‘Facebook en Twitter verwijderen nu volledige accounts………‘
‘9/11 forum geblokkeerd, de waarheid mag niet gezegd worden……..‘
‘CNN, de grote brenger van ‘fake news!!!’‘
‘Facebook (en Twitter) onderdrukt meningsvorming door het verwijderen van (echt) onafhankelijke media‘
‘Wie het nieuws controleert, controleert de wereld……‘
‘Facebook en Twitter verwijderen de eerlijke journalistiek en oprechte opinie >> censuur…..‘
‘Censuur op het internet met vliegende start in de VS, ‘het land van het vrije woord….’‘
‘Facebook en NAVO werken samen in censuur op niet welgevallig nieuws……‘
‘Aanval op alternatieve media ‘succesvol’: meer en meer sites worden van het net geweerd………‘
‘ThinkProgress eiste censuur van Facebook en werd inderdaad gecensureerd…. ha! ha! ha! ha!‘
‘VS staatscensuur op Facebook (ook in de EU)‘
‘Facebook wil samen met door Saoedi-Arabië gesubsidieerde denktank censureren…. ha! ha! ha! ha! ha!‘
‘Media Too Busy Defending John McCain to Report the News That Actually Affects You‘ Onder andere aandacht voor PRISM.
‘Westerse massa misleiding in aanloop naar WOIII……‘
‘Eis een nee tegen censuur op het internet!‘
‘Facebook e.a. hebben lak aan AVG (GDPR), misbruik persoonsgegevens gaat gewoon door…….‘
‘Jeremy Corbyn wordt gedemoniseerd als antisemiet…….‘
‘Facebook: verrijking van oliemaatschappijen en andere grote bedrijven, plus wereldwijde corruptie…….‘
Facebook Purges Independent Media for “Political Disinformation”
