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.
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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.
The political issues raised by the media ban on UK far-right leader Tommy Robinson By Thomas Scripps
15 March 2019 — WSWS
UK far-right leader Tommy Robinson has been banned from a growing list of social media outlets.
Last week, Amazon blocked the sale of Robinson’s Islamophobic diatribe on the Quran, co-authored with another far-right figure, Peter McLoughlin. In February, he was permanently banned from Facebook and Instagram, following a Twitter ban in March 2018 and a PayPal ban in November 2018. YouTube suspended advertising on his account this January and is under pressure to bar his account.
What “community standards” did this comment breach? #18
20 February 2019 — Off Guardian
The following comment – posted to twitter by Craig Murray – was censored by The Guardian. Which of the well-publicised CiF “community standards” did they breach?
Removed comment, posted under this live news feed earlier today:
Twitter Greenlights Venezuela’s Pro-Opposition Online Blitz – Shuts Down Genuine Opponents by Alexander Rubinstein
5 February 2019 — Mintpress
The Spin War
Shady anonymous actors are waging an information war manipulating social media with automated posts in an apparent attempt to manufacture a faux consensus for regime change in Venezuela.
Acclaimed Venezuelan News Site Latest Victim in Facebook Censorship Spree
4 February 2019 — Sputnik News
UPDATE: Facebook restored the page for Venezuela Analysis roughly five hours after unpublishing it, offering no explanation.
Facebook has removed the page of yet another media outlet. This time, it’s not a far right fringe network like Infowars, but “Venezuela’s only independent, grassroots leftwing English media platform,” the outlet, Venezuela Analysis, noted on Twitter.
Twitter Bans 2,000 Pro-Maduro Accounts As Demands For Regime Change Escalate by Tyler Durden
1 February 2019 — ZeroHedge
On the evening before National Security Advisor John Bolton reiterated that “all options [including, presumably, military intervention] are on the table” regarding the situation in Venezuela, Twitter announced that it had joined the US-backed coup by taking down 2,000 accounts that it said were engaged in a “state-backed influence campaign”, according to RT.
Twitter takes down hundreds of accounts linked to Venezuela amid US calls for regime change
1 February 2019 — RT
Twitter has announced that it took down about 2,000 accounts in Venezuela, most of which it claimed were “engaged in a state-backed influence campaign.” This comes amid accusations of a US-led coup attempt.
The San Francisco-based social media giant released a blog post on Thursday saying that it removed 1,196 accounts located in Venezuela which it deemed to “appear to be engaged in a state-backed influence campaign targeting domestic audiences.” It also removed another 764 accounts, however, noted: “We are unable to definitively tie the accounts located in Venezuela to information operations of a foreign government against another country.”
