(2018-08-23). Censorship in America: The New Normal. Suppressing "Inauthentic Behavior" globalresearch.ca In America free speech, media, and academic freedoms are threatened. | Social media, Google, and other tech giants are complicit in a campaign to suppress content conflicting with the official narrative. | What's …
(2018-08-23). Facebook is Filtering Out News That Doesn't Bolster US Foreign Policy. mintpressnews.com 
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, 338 so-called "friends." Editors, the media, and political commentators are similarly entranced. One unpretentious website receiving the present writer's contributions claims 89,834 Facebook friends and another, 125,060 of them. | But now anyone dealing with political news and analyses of a progressive nature has reason to re-evaluate, even to draw back. Facebook apparently is now primed to censor that kind of information and discussion. | Facebook, for example, has its sights on Venezuela. Revolutionary currents there have rankled the U.S. government and dominant U.S. media. The latter has frequently referred to the failed violent anti-government coup…
(2018-08-23). KPFA Management Abandoning The Station's Principles. indybay.org The KPFA of 2018, however, seems all-too aligned with national security state messaging, with its constant parroting of corporate media's evidence-free "Russia meddled" narrative and, with occasional exceptions, no recognition of the grotesque but almost completely unexamined and outsized influence of the state of Israel over US politics. | The unhealthy hierarchical structure of the station—well protected and benefited paid staff versus a majority of unprotected unpaid staff—also falls into the pattern of haves and have-nots in our society at large, and the negative consequence of such a structure is…
(2018-08-23). Philadelphia crime solicitation…8-21-18 Mouse Report. indybay.org can you swallow Russians behind our black box fracked 3/5 slave state electoral college voting system's 2016 selection?…more of the same Thursday in Chicago at the DNC…we look at the issues behind the distractions nationally and censorship 10 points down the dial from 104.1 FM Berkeley Liberation Radio..where the axing the station's best news show proves the station manager's service to the MIC's cannon fodder for the holy land project matches his service to big pharma… quashing news measles vaccine kills 100 times as many as the disease…in wake of draconian mandate…
(2018-08-23). Facebook escalates censorship of left-wing, anti-war organizations. wsws.org On Tuesday, Facebook announced the removal of hundreds of user accounts and pages, many of them opposing the crimes of the American, Saudi and Israeli governments in the Middle East.
(2018-08-22). That Facebook Will Turn to Censoring the Left Isn't a Worry—It's a Reality. fair.org 
On August 6, a number of giant online media companies, including Facebook, YouTube, Apple, Spotify and Pinterest, took the seemingly coordinated decision to remove all content from Alex Jones and his media outlet Infowars from their platforms. | Jones, perhaps the internet's most notorious far-right conspiracy theorist, has claimed that the Sandy Hook shooting was a hoax, the Democratic Party is running a child sex ring inside a DC pizzeria and that the Las Vegas shooting was perpetrated by Antifa. Despite or perhaps because of such claims, his website Infowars has built up an enormous following: 3 million Americans, almost 1 percent of the population, visited the site in July 2018, according to Alexa. Alex Jones: First they came for the conspiracy theorists…. | The reaction from the media to the decision to ban Jones and Infowars was largely celebratory. On…
(2018-08-22). 'It can turn around': Trump would rather tolerate 'fake news' than accept 'censorship'. rt.com 
Despite being constantly at odds with liberal mainstream media — often calling them 'fake news' — Donald Trump has told his supporters that even having to tolerate CNN is a much better alternative to censorship.
(2018-08-22). Facebook, Twitter take down 'inauthentic Iran-linked' accounts… but Russia takes the heat. rt.com 
Facebook and Twitter have reported successes in battling alleged information manipulation by Iran-linked accounts. However, an overexcited mainstream media eager to expose 'Russian meddling' did not hesitate to blame Moscow.
(2018-08-21). Instagram: The Next Social Media Platform to Censor Political Content? therealnews.com 
Jesse Duquette, a political cartoonist who regularly criticizes President Trump, had one of his cartoons removed from Instagram with no explanation. Marc Steiner talks to him about his cartoons and what happened
(2018-08-19). US govt doesn't think people have intelligence to decipher news, hence censorship — Keiser. rt.com 
As Twitter and Facebook are criticized over censorship and constant finger-pointing at Russia, RT's Max Keiser speaks to the senior editor of the Grayzone Project, Max Blumenthal, who sums up the reality of the situation. |
(2018-08-19). Facebook 'censors' conservative education page, says it was a mistake, but few are convinced. rt.com 
Facebook says it had mistakenly deleted videos and limited the reach of US conservative educational organization PragerU. The content has now been restored, but PragerU supporters don't think it was an accident.
(2018-08-18). Trump: 'We won't let' discrimination of conservatives on social media happen. rt.com 
US President Donald Trump has spoken out about censorship against conservatives on social media, saying it is a "very dangerous thing" and calling for everyone to be allowed to participate in the online conversation.
(2018-08-17). Pentagon hypes China threat amid renewed strategic competition. rt.com 
The Pentagon is raising an alarm about "rapidly" growing Chinese military capabilities, from long-range bombers to a blue-water navy, as mainstream media warn that Chinese pilots are "likely" training for strikes against the US.
(2018-08-16). Trump-Media Logrolling. consortiumnews.com Hundreds of mainstream newspapers on Thursday have coordinated editorials against Trump's attacks on the press, but as Sam Husseini explains, the major media need to do some soul-searching itself. By Sam Husseini Today, hundreds of newspapers, at the initiative of The Boston… Read more →
(2018-08-14). How Monsanto Plants Stories, Suppresses Science & Silences Dissent to Sell a Cancer-Linked Chemical. democracynow.org 
As Monsanto comes under scrutiny for allegedly hiding the dangers of its weed killer Roundup, we talk to a reporter who says the company attempted to censor and discredit her when she published stories on their product that contradicted their business interests. Carey Gillam is a veteran investigative journalist and author of "Whitewash: The Story of a Weed Killer, Cancer, and the Corruption of Science."