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FBI social media censorship

FBI launches open attack on ‘foreign’ alternative media outlets challenging US foreign policy

Gareth Porter·June 5, 2020

Under FBI orders, Facebook and Google removed American Herald Tribune, an alternative site that publishes US and European... Read More

Acronym group that sabotaged Iowa caucus birthed by billionaire who funded Alabama disinformation campaign

Max Blumenthal·February 6, 2020

Silicon Valley billionaire Reid Hoffman funded the creation of ACRONYM, the group that sabotaged the Iowa caucus results,... Read More

billionaire Seth Klarman Buttigieg Iowa caucus Shadow app Israel

Billionaire pro-Israel Buttigieg backer Seth Klarman funds group behind Iowa’s disastrous voting app

Max Blumenthal·February 4, 2020

Behind the app that delayed Iowa’s voting results is a dark money operation funded by anti-Bernie Sanders billionaires.... Read More

social media US government censorship suspensions

Under US pressure, social media companies censor critical content and suspend Venezuelan, Iranian, and Syrian accounts

Ben Norton·January 12, 2020

As the US escalates its hybrid wars, Twitter, Facebook, and Instagram are suspending accounts and censoring content that... Read More

PayPal block donations mention Iran

PayPal blocks donations to The Grayzone that mention Iran (and free speech)

Ben Norton·January 9, 2020

Small donations to The Grayzone were delayed and reversed by PayPal because they mentioned the word “Iran” in... Read More

twitter censorship foreign state media

Twitter relying on US/European gov-funded regime-change groups to crack down on foreign states

Ben Norton·August 24, 2019

Twitter is relying on organizations funded by the US government and European allies, such as right-wing lobby group... Read More

Kateryna Kruk Ukraine

Facebook’s new public policy manager for Ukraine is nationalist hawk who volunteered with fascist party during US-backed coup

Ben Norton·June 4, 2019

Facebook’s new public policy manager for Ukraine Kateryna Kruk is a former government official, diehard nationalist, and anti-Russian... Read More

instagram us government iran

Instagram acts as arm of US govt, bans top Iranian officials after IRGC ‘terrorist’ designation

Ben Norton·April 18, 2019

Top Iranian government officials were suspended from Facebook-owned Instagram just hours after Trump dubbed the IRGC a “terrorist”... Read More

American internet companies are privatized instruments of US geopolitical power, and they’re not even hiding it

Yasha Levine·April 7, 2019

Perhaps the one positive thing that’s come out of RussiaGate is that no one believes Silicon Valley’s global... Read More

Pierre Omidyar regime change US CIA

How tech oligarch Pierre Omidyar funds regime-change networks and partners with CIA cutouts

Alexander Rubinstein and Max Blumenthal·February 20, 2019

An investigation into billionaire eBay founder Pierre Omidyar and the massive network of regime-change organizations he bankrolls, which... Read More

Pierre Omidyar Ebay billionaire oligarch funding media

eBay billionaire Pierre Omidyar is funding a global information war and shaping the media landscape

Alexander Rubinstein and Max Blumenthal·February 18, 2019

Through his purchase of influence over the daily flow of information to American media consumers, a dizzying array... Read More

Facebook censorship of alternative media ‘just the beginning,’ says top neocon insider

Max Blumenthal and Jeb Sprague·October 23, 2018

At a Berlin security conference, hardline neocon Jamie Fly appeared to claim some credit for the recent coordinated... Read More

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