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Watch | Israel Censors News on IDF Funding and Support of Syrian Rebels

This incident once again demonstrates that all claims of Tel Aviv that it is not involved in the ongoing conflict in Syria are false.

September 07th, 2018

By SouthFront

Watch | Israel Censors News on IDF Funding and Support of Syrian Rebels

The Israeli military is censoring news reports on Israel providing weapons and supplies to militant groups in Syria. The Jerusalem Post was told by the military censor to remove its story “IDF Confirms: Israel Provided Light-Weapons To Syrian Rebels”. However, the report providing details on the transfer of significant amounts of cash, weapons and

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Google, Facebook, and Twitter Are Censoring Iranians – A Censored Student Journalist Speaks Out

Google, Facebook, and Twitter are removing social media accounts of real life Iranians who are falsely dubbed as “government trolls.” Student journalist Sayed Mousavi warns “this is just the tip of an iceberg.”

August 28th, 2018

By Ben Norton

Google, Facebook, and Twitter Are Censoring Iranians – A Censored Student Journalist Speaks Out

Under apparent government pressure, big tech corporations in the United States have tightened their social media grip, censoring accounts that criticize the US government and its allies. Under the spell of Russiagate hysteria promoted incessantly by the US government and corporate media, social media accounts that were identified by shady

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Ben Norton

Ben Norton is a journalist and writer. He is a producer and reporter for The Real News, and a contributor to the Grayzone Project and FAIR. Ben co-hosts the Moderate Rebels podcast with Max Blumenthal. His website is BenNorton.com.

Saudis Move to Behead Female Activist as Facebook Censors Anti-Saudi Content

Although Saudi Arabia has killed or injured several thousand women in neighboring Yemen, beheading a female is completely unprecedented inside the Kingdom thus far.

August 24th, 2018

By Randi Nord @randinord

Saudis Move to Behead Female Activist as Facebook Censors Anti-Saudi Content

Riyadh (GPA) – Saudi prosecutors are seeking the death penalty for a 29-year-old woman activist for crimes such as chanting slogans at a protest. Beheading a woman is unprecedented in the kingdom. Meanwhile, Facebook has sprung into action to protect Riyadh’s back by initiating a crackdown on hundreds of accounts posting anti-Saudi

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Randi Nord

Randi Nord is a journalist and co-founder of Geopolitics Alert. She covers U.S. foreign policy in the Middle East with a special focus on Yemen.

Facebook is Filtering Out News That Doesn’t Bolster US Foreign Policy

Facebook has shed any pretense of neutrality in handling political information concerning the foreign affairs of the U.S. government.

August 22nd, 2018

By WT Whitney

Facebook is Filtering Out News That Doesn’t Bolster US Foreign Policy

Facebook has its admirers. Shareholders are enamored of its profits – $15.9 billion in 2017 – and hordes of the world’s population – 1.47 billion people – look at Facebook every day. Individually on their Facebook pages they are communicating with, on average,

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WT Whitney

W.T. Whitney Jr. is a retired pediatrician and political journalist living in Maine.

Alex Jones was an Easy Censorship Precedent – Predictably Other Dissent is Following

Our democracy is traveling down a slippery slope of censorship by private internet portals and the mainstream news media is saying nothing.

August 20th, 2018

By Ian Berman

Alex Jones was an Easy Censorship Precedent – Predictably Other Dissent is Following

FACEBOOK, THE PUBLIC COMMONS -- On August 11, Facebook suddenly took down the Facebook page of teleSUR English for allegedly failing to comply with Facebook’s Terms of Use. This unit is a part of Telesur, a left-wing

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Facebook Suspends teleSUR English Without Explanation, Again

“It seems like the censorship power many people on the left want Silicon Valley executives to unilaterally exercise might end up being wielded against the left. One good way to know that would happen is that is already is happening.”

August 14th, 2018

By Jessica Corbett

Facebook Suspends teleSUR English Without Explanation, Again

For the second time this year, Facebook has suspended teleSUR English's page, claiming the left-leaning Latin American news network violated the social media platform's terms of service without any further explanation—a move that provoked outrage and concern among journalists, free speech advocates, and Big Tech critics. In a short

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YouTube Censors Accounts Reporting Truth About Syria’s Idlib

Among the accounts removed are those of the Syrian Ministry of Defense, SANA News Agency, and the Syrian presidency.