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First they came for Alex Jones. Now Facebook bans Venezuela news site
http://www.rt.com/news/435578-facebook-bans-venezuela-news/Date Written: 2018-08-09 Publisher: RT Year Published: 2018 Resource Type: Article Cx Number: CX22844 Days after the purge of Alex Jones from social media, Big Tech seems to have found another suitable target for apparent censorship. Facebook suspended the page of a prominent leftist news site writing about Venezuela. Abstract: - Excerpt: Days after the purge of Alex Jones from social media, Big Tech seems to have found another suitable target for apparent censorship. Facebook suspended the page of a prominent leftist news site writing about Venezuela. Venezuelanalysis.com, a left-leaning news site that writes from a pro-Bolivarian revolution stance, has been around since 2003. Critics, including the US government, brand it as a propaganda outlet of the government in Caracas. The site says it is funded by donations and lists as its team Western-born journalists and filmmakers, as well as endorsements from dozens of Western intellectuals, including Noam Chomsky, Tariq Ali and Oliver Stone. On Thursday, its Facebook page was suspended in what Venezuelanalysis described as a "flagrant act of political censorship." It suggested that the ban may have been timed to suppress a "brilliant piece" on how the Western media covered the drone assassination attempt on Venezuelan president Nicolas Maduro. The banned site also asked for public support in the face of the suspension. Subject Headings |