WAR ON WORDS: Facebook Censorship Widens, Website to Curate ‘Favored’ News

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The US media’s neoMcCarthy-like witch hunt continues as social media giant Facebook creates a newly designed feature that allows the website to curate ‘favored news’ in its News Feed section.

A new feature called ‘Collections’ created by Facebook appears to be yet another effort to quell any position outside of the mainstream Western media talking points. This brand new level of algorithmic censorship targeting a blacklist of media sites smacks of Orwellian-like thought control – something which could have a lasting impact on freedom of the press and free speech well into the future.

Over the past month, The Washington Post published an irresponsible propaganda piece that blamed the 2016 US election results on ‘fake news’ dispensed via sophisticated Russian propaganda. These accusations of course were completely unfounded, deliberately feeding into a paranoid trial by media format that is no doubt echoed by US government sock puppet accounts that act as a digital firing squad by redirecting public perception.

SEE ALSO: Washington Post Sloppy ‘Journalism’ Blames Russia for “Fake News” Crisis and Trump’s Win, While Pushing Neo-McCarthyism

While the US media contends that fake news somehow altered the 2016 presidential election cycle, but it’s important to remember that the US government has been behind the creation of bogus social media accounts and personalities for years now.

Back in 2011, The UK’s Guardian reported that the US government via Centcom, was looking to gain a foothold over information shared on the internet through fake online personal accounts:

“The discovery that the US military is developing false online personalities – known to users of social media as “sock puppets” – could also encourage other governments, private companies and non-government organisations to do the same.

The Centcom contract stipulates that each fake online persona must have a convincing background, history and supporting details, and that up to 50 US-based controllers should be able to operate false identities from their workstations “without fear of being discovered by sophisticated adversaries”.”

You can expect a litany of allegations to continue from the mainstream, along with their faux war on fake news sites which has been used deliberately to discredit and frame genuine investigative analysis in alternative media, its intended target. Western media’s anti-Russian hyperbole has morphed and broadened somewhat, thanks to Facebook, Google and Twitter and the alphabet establishment news agencies, Washington has a new go-to scapegoat joining the tired old Russian ‘hack’ meme – independent media.

Facebook’s new tool to restrict certain posts has already created a backlash as several employees have recently quit the social media site Business Insider reports:

“Facebook has created a censorship tool to automatically suppress certain posts in specific geographic areas  — and several employees who worked on the project quit in dismay, reports the New York Times.

This software would give third parties, like internet service providers, the ability to monitor Facebook for popular stories, and suppress them at will.”

More from Business Insider below…

Facebook working on a plan to pick news from favored media partners

by Alex Heath

Business Insider 

Facebook is working on a new feature that will showcase lists of curated content from publishers directly in the News Feed, according to two people familiar with the project and internal documentation seen by Business Insider.

The feature is called Collections and functions similarly to Snapchat’s Discover section, which showcases news stories, listicles, videos, and other content submitted by handpicked media partners.

Facebook has approached media and entertainment companies in recent weeks to create content for Collections, but has not given a time frame for when the feature will be made available.

A Facebook spokesman declined to comment for this story.

Most people who use social media have figured out that Facebook and Google are in cahoots with the government. For those who are well aware of the issues, it’s high time you switched over to Seen.life.

Seen.life is a website that is similar to Facebook but without all the censorship. Firearm friendly, you may buy sell or trade anything allowed by site TOS rules.

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