The Conspiracy to Censor Left-wing Points of View Continues to Intensify
Part 1: Google intensifies censorship of left-wing websites
Google’s actions against left and progressive sites are making clear the real targets of Internet censorship: news outlets and political organizations opposing war, social inequality and the domination of society by the financial oligarchy.
Part 2: Part 2: The conspiracy to censor the Internet
The same arguments now being employed to crack down on social media could just as well have been used to suppress books and mass circulation newspapers that emerged with the development of the printing press.
Part 3: What We Do and Don’t Know About Facebook’s New Political Ad Transparency Initiative
The short answer: It leaves the company some wiggle room.
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Part 1: Google intensifies censorship of left-wing websites
Google’s actions against left and progressive sites are making clear the real targets of Internet censorship: news outlets and political organizations opposing war, social inequality and the domination of society by the financial oligarchy.
Andre Damon, World Socialist Web Site
Submitted by Evergreene Digest Contributing Editor John Stoltenberg
19 September 2017 | Google has intensified its censorship of left-wing, progressive and anti-war websites, cutting the search traffic of 13 leading news outlets by 55 percent since April.
On August 2, the World Socialist Web Site reported that changes to Google’s search algorithm had led the search traffic of these sites to drop by 45 percent, according to figures by the search analysis service SEMRush.
Andre Damon is a World Socialist Web Site reporter.
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Part 2: The conspiracy to censor the Internet
- The Constitution does not give the government or powerful corporations the right to proclaim what is “fake” and what is not, what is a “conspiracy theory” and what is “authoritative.”
- The same arguments now being employed to crack down on social media could just as well have been used to suppress books and mass circulation newspapers that emerged with the development of the printing press.
Andre Damon and Joseph Kishore, World Socialist Web Site
Submitted by Evergreene Digest Contributing Editor John Stoltenberg
18 October 2017 | The political representatives of the American ruling class are engaged in a conspiracy to suppress free speech. Under the guise of combating “trolls” and “fake news” supposedly controlled by Russia, the most basic constitutional rights enumerated in the First Amendment are under direct attack.
The leading political force in this campaign is the Democratic Party, working in collaboration with sections of the Republican Party, the mass media and the military-intelligence establishment.
Andre Damon is a World Socialist Web Site reporter.
Joseph Kishore is an American activist and writer. He is the National Secretary of the Socialist Equality Party and a writer for the World Socialist Web Site.
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Part 3: What We Do and Don’t Know About Facebook’s New Political Ad Transparency Initiative
The short answer: It leaves the company some wiggle room.
Julia Angwin, ProPublica
Sept. 22, 2017 | On Thursday, Facebook Chief Executive Mark Zuckerberg announced several steps to make political ads on the world’s largest social network more transparent. The changes follow Facebook’s acknowledgment earlier this month that $100,000 worth of political ads were placed during the 2016 election cycle by “inauthentic accounts” linked to Russia.
The changes also follow ProPublica’s launch of a crowdsourcing effort earlier this month to collect political advertising from Facebook. Our goal was to ensure that political ads on Facebook, which until now have largely avoided scrutiny, receive the same level of fact-checking by journalists, advocacy groups and political opponents as do print, broadcast and radio political ads. We hope to have some results to share soon.
Julia Angwin is a senior reporter at ProPublica. From 2000 to 2013, she was a reporter at The Wall Street Journal, where she led a privacy investigative team that was a finalist for a Pulitzer Prize.
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