The company’s Facebook account was suspended on Friday after a recent post that criticized fascism. Redfish said Facebook deleted the page on the grounds that its posts commemorating the Holocaust and the defeat of Italian fascism violated its community standards. The post in question featured an upside-down photo of Italy’s dictator …
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Mayor Nikuyah Walker took to her Facebook page on Wednesday with a poem – apparently her own work – describing the city with bizarre, sexually-explicit metaphors. “Charlottesville: The beautiful-ugly it is. It rapes you, comforts you in its c** stained sheet and tells you to keep its secrets,” Walker wrote, …
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“DOZENS of voter names, addresses, and pictures proving they don’t exist. Period. Today I’m tired of this s**t. Mass voter fraud is real and I can prove it,” Crowder tweeted on Tuesday. Twitter quickly restricted the tweet and did not allow anyone to like, retweet, or respond to it “due …
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Cuomo tweeted the cartoon on Thursday, calling it a “great video” and saying, “Let’s fight fear with facts.” The video features 1980s rap star Darryl “DMC” McDaniels, formerly of Run-DMC, telling his audience to take the vaccine so “we can get back to normal.” The song repeatedly urges listeners to …
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Cuomo tweeted the cartoon on Thursday, calling it a “great video” and saying, “Let’s fight fear with facts.” The video features 1980s rap star Darryl “DMC” McDaniels, formerly of Run-DMC, telling his audience to take the vaccine so “we can get back to normal.” The song repeatedly urges listeners to …
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As it emerged that Twitter had permanently suspended the US president, for reasons known only to her (and her team of advisers) Clinton decided to dredge up a tweet from her disastrous election bid. The 73-year-old retweeted a post from the 2016 race in which she instructed Trump to “delete …
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Starting next week, the social media giant will excise all posts that “invoke a deliberate conspiracy” or “advance harmful, false or misleading narratives” about vaccines, the company said in a blog post on Wednesday, putting particular focus on inoculations against the coronavirus. “Using a combination of technology and human review, …
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Praising recent Facebook’s decision to weed out all content that “denies or distorts” the Holocaust, Khan urged the social media platform to implement similar rules in regard to “Islamophobic” posts. “I appreciate your taking the step to rightly ban any posting that criticizes or questions the Holocaust, which was the …
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“We are removing false claims that the wildfires in Oregon were started by certain groups,” Andy Stone, policy communications manager at Facebook, tweeted late on Saturday. Defending what is effectively an act of censorship by the social media giant, Stone noted that speculation suggesting the blazes have been ignited by …
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Almoutaz Tayara, the board director of the charity Islamic Relief Worldwide (IRW) based in Birmingham, had posted on his Facebook page in 2014 and 2015 a cartoon that depicted former US president Barack Obama wearing the Star of David with Ayatollah Ali Khamenei and President Assad of Syria on his …
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