A misplaced live streaming rights strike during RT's broadcast of President Obama's final press conference seems to have triggered the ban.
RT's Head of Social media, Ivor Crotty, said "the live-rights strike seems to be part of an algorithmic failure to acknowledge rights acquired by broadcasters, and we hope it will be resolved in the short term."
"While Facebook is a powerful distributor of live-streams it is struggling with the rights ramifications. RT will continue text-only posts to Facebook until the issue is resolved," Crotty added.
President Obama's final press conference was carried live by multiple news networks on Wednesday. RT's stream was interrupted by a Facebook bot notification that rights had been claimed by a local Russian publisher.
12 hours since the block, RT has not received any mails from Facebook to its page admin confirming this was the case.
The manager of the "News, Media and Publishing on Facebook" Group responded to an RT post on the block, saying it seemed RT had rights but that the only option was to submit to Facebook's management system.
This is the first time RT has been blocked from posting to Facebook. Here is the image of our post to Facebook and of the chat with Facebook Media, News & Publishing group.
Comment: Given that: the timing coincides with Trumps inauguration and is the first time ever RT has been blocked from posting media; the poor reasoning that it's perhaps an algorithm problem; the absence of any moves from Facebook to resolve the issue; one wonders whether RT, one of social media's most powerful news outlets, is considered a threat to the #FakeNews produced by the failing mainstream media. And at such an auspicious turning point in Americas recent history.
This is just one of many examples of the establishments last desperate attempts at directing the conversation.
Also see:
- Cybersecurity expert John McAfee on 'Russia hacking': 'Propaganda intended to incite Americans'
- Making Russia 'The Enemy'
- Intelligence community is waging open warfare against Trump's foreign policy
- Deconstructing MI6 smear artist Chris Steele's 'dossier' on Trump's Moscow visit
- Beginning of the end of the US Deep State? Soft coup collapsing as CIA produces no evidence of Russian hacking
- Ex-UK ambassador to Moscow: Trump right on Russia, Britain must listen
About the greatest difference that I have with Miles Mathis is that he generally seems to think that the 'people in charge', ie., the so-called 'elite' and their innumerable kapos (he calls them 'spooks') know what they are doing as they as they are 'doing', ie,, as they are acting out their various captivating dramas and major offenses against the planet and the Universe and reality.
I would most definitely say--'no'--that they do not know what they are doing. They are merely pretending to know. In a way, we are all caught in that trap of pretending to know. It is a human problem although the 'problem' is much worse now than several thousand years ago, or even a few centuries ago on the North American continent.
Once you really know, you can no longer do, or conspire to do, evil.
And you can only really know, when you realize or grasp fully how much you are just pretending to know and participating and illicitly cooperating with others who are pretending to know (the legal or scientific authorities, so to speak), albeit at a worse, more egregious level.
That is not to say you can never pretend or imagine things, just have a different relationship with such things.
Having this different relationship might keep you off of Facebook, or at least keep you from paying unnecessary attention to what Facebook et al is forcing you to believe, for example.
Why give credit where credit is not due?
When the devil gets rich, he gets it from you.
ned, out