Facebook has unpublished our page
After 5 years of building fans Facebook has officially unpublished our page (3.1 million fans) so we can't post on it anymore. This is truly an outrage and we are devastated. We will do everything we can to recover our page and fight back. pic.twitter.com/H3AmHTT8Qo
- Free Thought Project (@TFTPROJECT) October 11, 2018
Our @facebook page with over 2.1 million followers has been unpublished, along with over 800 other pages and accounts. The purge of alt-media is upon us. pic.twitter.com/6Q2oswVpBI
- Anti-Media (@AntiMedia) October 11, 2018
Comment: It appears that the Twitter accounts of both Free Thought Project and Anti-Media have also been suspended.
Facebook claims that "domestic actors" have been creating "fake pages and accounts to attract people with shocking political news," reports Bloomberg.
"The people behind the activity also post the same clickbait posts in dozens of Facebook Groups, often hundreds of times in a short period, to drum up traffic for their websites," Facebook said in a Thursday blog post. "And they often use their fake accounts to generate fake likes and shares. This artificially inflates engagement for their inauthentic pages and the posts they share, misleading people about their popularity and improving their ranking in news feed."
Some pages Facebook removed had large followings of real and fake accounts. Nation in Distress, a conservative meme page, was followed by more than 3 million people, according to the Internet Archive, which stores historical versions of websites and other online content. - Bloomberg
That said, not all of the accounts with large followings were conservative; Reverb Press, for example, had over 700,000 followers and constantly attacked President Trump and Republicans, who they referred to as "cheating scumbags."
A third left-leaning page, Reasonable People Unite, posted a screen shot of a Twitter user who said, "Somewhere in America, a teenage girl is listening to her parents defend Brett Kavanaugh and she is thinking to herself, if something like that happens to me, I have nowhere to go." - WaPoThe digital nanny state strikes again...
It's the "team up with the ADL" part (your comment) that's scariest.
Combine that with "the rule of law", which in the American case means totalitarianism, with "justice" meaning revenge, and mercy out of the reach of anyone who's not a multi-millionaire. We've recently seen a spectacular example of that depravity, a man who did not simply have a judicial background but was a staff lawyer for various offices of the U.S. government, and was deeply involved in the Clinton impeachment process, not detached, but heavily political, who even so was not disqualified from joining the U.S. Supreme Court.
Combine that with "the rule of law" ruling that a corporation is a person , so, though immortal, it can be the personal, individual owner of stocks and shares in any other corporation, and so by exchange of such it can swallow the other one up, can swallow other ones up, and so become a supergiant, even though one person. Corporate mergers couldn't happen without the unjust notion that a corporation is a person, immortal or not.
And although a person, is not a citizen: has no loyalty to the country, is trans-national or multi-national.
Combine that with the fact that when the Internet ceased to be purely governmental and academic, when ISPs sprang up, they were initially very numerous, but have now mostly been swallowed up by a few of them, are very few, thanks to corporations being persons. And those few have set up financial barriers to keep new ones out.
And it follows that those few will be closely teamed up with the ADL, will all be headed by members of the cult that the ADL represents, which depends totally on re-writing history; which can't, therefore, permit freedom of speech on the Web. And, now being in charge, don't have to. Facebook purges over 800 accounts.
Your ISP may not be able to slow you down if "Internet equality" prevails, but at any time can decide it doesn't want you as a customer, can cut you off altogether. And the others of that cult will decide not to accept you as a customer. Then, you are finished.
That's what's scary.