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The political power of Facebook

by Thierry Meyssan

Paris (France) | 12 October 2021

In the global imagination, Facebook would be a responsible social network that allows everyone to connect confidentially while censoring messages contrary to local laws. In practice, it is quite different. Facebook collects information about you for the NSA, censors your opinions and mints its (…)

US Senate vs Facebook

6 October 2021

Frances Haugen, the former Facebook employee who leaked evidence to the Wall Street Journal of the discriminatory practices carried out by the social media giant [1], testified on 5 October 2021 before the Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation.
The hearing threw light on (…)

Facebook’s 5.8 million privileged users

15 September 2021

The Wall Street Journal got hold of an internal Facebook document showing that, contrary to what the company claims, it does not accord equal treatment between regular users, on one hand, and the elites of politics, culture and journalism, on the other hand.
Some 5.6 million VIPs have been (…)

US voters want to legislate against Facebook and Twitter

10 May 2021

The latest Rasmussen Reports national telephone and online survey finds that 59% of U.S. voters believe that operators of social media platforms like Facebook and Twitter relay biased information.
This viewpoint is less clear-cut among the younger and less educated users of these social (…)

Google, Facebook and Twitter black out information on Carvativir

28 January 2021

The President of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela, Nicolás Maduro, announced that researchers have elaborated a drug capable of treating Covid-19 with no side-effects, called Carvativir. He also announced that it would be manufacured in large quantities and be made available to the member (…)

Mark Zuckerberg censors governments

20 January 2021

Mark Zuckerberg’s company Facebook is already used to censoring governments. After closing French Army accounts in the Central African Republic and Mali in December 2020, plus those of the incumbent President of the United States in January 2021, Facebook has also just closed those of Ugandan (…)

Consensus: London allies with Facebook, Twitter, Google/YouTube, Reuters

27 November 2020

A British association called Full Fact, has created a coalition between, on the one hand, all the relevant ministries of the United Kingdom and Canada and, on the other, information giants Facebook, Twitter, Google/YouTube and Reuters, in order to fight against disinformation on the internet in (…)

Republicans file complaint against Twitter and Facebook before Election Commission

17 October 2020

The Republican Party has lodged a complaint against Twitter and Facebook with the Federal Election Commission.
Indeed, these two companies implemented technical measures to prevent the dissemination of the New York Post articles unveiling the criminal offenses committed by Joe Biden and his (…)

Facebook surrounds Africa

by Manlio Dinucci

Rome (Italy) | 17 June 2020

Many industries and service companies are failing or shrinking due to the lockdown and subsequent crisis. Instead, there are those who have gained from all this. Facebook, Google (YouTube owner), Microsoft, Apple and Amazon - writes The New York Times - "are aggressively placing new bets, as the (…)

French Officials will censure Facebook France

18 November 2018

Facebook has accepted allowing French state officials to form part of its censorship committee. So announced French President, Emmanuel Macron.
This announcement was made at an International Forum on the Internet Governance held on 12 November 2018 at UNESCO (Paris). The agreement is that this (…)

Facebook and Twitter boast how they censure news

22 August 2018

Facebook and Twitter declared that they have now censured information published by groups linked to Iran and to Russia.
These two companies justify their position on the grounds that such information falls within the category of fake news. However, they are not giving out information on the (…)

Censorship of the Internet: After Alex Jones, TeleSur

17 August 2018

Facebook has announced that it has withdrawn the English accounts from TeleSur, a pan-American television channel.
On August 7, 2018, Mark Zuckerberg, Facebook’s director, personally coordinated with Apple, Google, Spotify and YouTube (but not Twitter) the deletion of Alex Jones and InfoWars (…)

The Great Purge on the Internet has begun

8 August 2018

In less than 12 hours, Internet giants have closed down all internet accounts belonging to the Group Infowars and the US journalist Alex Jones (see photo), both pro-Trump.
This purge follows a US House of Representatives Hearing of the Justice Committee on Censorship of the Internet and was (…)

How Facebook’s Secret Unit Created India’s Troll Armies For Digital Propaganda To Influence Elections

by Shelley Kasli

Bangalore (India) | 23 December 2017

What Alternative für Deutschland, Rodrigo Duterte, Mauricio Macri, Narendra Modi, Barack Obama, the Scottish National Party and Donald Trump have in common? They relied on their election campaigns on the advice of Mark Zuckerberg. Taking the case of the falsification of Indian elections, Shelley (…)

Facebook, imperialist tool 2.0

6 July 2012

Promoted as the instrument of the "revolution" by Western regimes, the reality of the social media site Facebook is quite different for those on the wrong side of "democracy".
Indeed, the platform has relayed, for several weeks, pages calling for the lynching and murder of citizens and Syrian (…)

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