14 November 2019 — Mint Press
By Mnar Muhawesh Mnar Muhawesh @mnarmuh
Mnar Muhawesh speaks with journalist Daniel McAdams about being permanently banned from Twitter, social media censorship and more.
Tag: Twitter
Twitter under fire for profiting from millions of UK users data which it illegally sold to advertisers
14 October 2019 — True Publica
The crooks that run the global social media corps are at it again. Of course, they take Facebook’s lead where last July Facebook’s stock price actually went up after news of a record-breaking $5 billion FTC fine for various privacy violations. Just to repeat that – the fine was five thousand million dollars – and the stock price went up!
EXCLUSIVE: Twitter executive for Middle East is British Army ‘psyops’ soldier
30 September 2019 — Middle East Eye
Head of editorial for MENA is part-time officer in the 77th Brigade, an ‘information warfare’ unit which has worked on ‘behavioural change’ projects in the region
The head of the British Army has described the 77th Brigade’s talents as including “social media, production design, and Arabic poetry” (British Army)
By Ian Cobain
Have You Noticed How Social Media Purges Always Align With The US Empire?
12 September 2019 — Caitlin Johnson
Twitter has suspended multiple large Cuban media accounts for reasons the social media platform has yet to explain as of this writing, a move which journalist Dan Cohen has described as “the equivalent of silencing CNN, Fox, WaPo and NPR’s accounts” for that nation. The Union of Cuban Journalists has denounced the move as censorship.
YouTube axes anti-protest channels as US Ministry of Truth battles China over Hong Kong
23 August 2019 — RT
YouTube has disabled 210 channels for posting content related to the Hong Kong protests “in a coordinated manner,” following in the footsteps of Facebook and Twitter in restricting its arbitrary censorship to pro-China accounts.
Twitter purges 200,000 accounts “originating from China” By Oscar Grenfell
21 August 2019 — WSWS
Twitter revealed on Monday that it had shut down 200,000 accounts that it claimed “originated in China,” over posts relating to the ongoing mass protests of workers and youth in Hong Kong. The purge is one of the largest in the history of the platform.
Twitter Restores Assange Activism Account In Response To Backlash by Caitlin Johnstone
19 July 2019 — Caitlin Johnson
After a week of vocal protests from online supporters of Julian Assange, Twitter has reversed its unjust removal of the prominent pro-Assange activism account @Unity4J.
Top Assange Defense Account Deleted By Twitter by Caitlin Johnstone
13 July 2019 — Caitlin Johnson
One of the biggest Twitter accounts dedicated to circulating information and advocacy for WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange, @Unity4J, has been completely removed from the site. The operators of the account report that they have been given no reason for its removal by Twitter staff, and have received no response to their appeals.
How to fend off automated censorship
27 June 2019 — Open Rights Group
You have until Monday 1 July to make you views known!
The Internet in general and social media in particular play a central role in protecting free expression in society. But the Government’s new plan to make social media safer could change that by ushering in a new era of automated censorship.
The window to comment on the Government’s Online Harms White Paper closes on Monday. William can you take a minute to tell the Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport (DCMS) that social media regulation must protect the right to free expression?
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Next ORG London event 17 June
5 June 2019 — Open Rights Group
Join us Monday 17 June at Goldsmith’s University of London for a talk by Open Rights Group’s Executive Director Jim Killock about the Government’s new plan to address “online harms” on social media and other online platforms.
“RESEARCH”? The U.S. Navy Wants To Archive 350 BILLION Social Media Posts By Marc Slavo
22 May, 2019 — SHTFplan.com
The United States Navy wants to archive 350 billion social media posts in order to conduct “research.” What exactly does the military want to study? “Modes of collective expression.”
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European Union intensifies internet censorship By Justus Leicht and Johannes Stern
27 March 2019 — WSWS
Two months before the European elections, the European Parliament has voted to massively escalate internet censorship. Yesterday, the majority of MEPs voted in favour of a directive which, under the guise of copyright reforms, would enforce the use of so-called upload filters in social media, thus further restricting the internet.
