{"id":142923,"date":"2019-09-16T12:00:29","date_gmt":"2019-09-16T11:00:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/?p=142923"},"modified":"2019-09-23T10:15:50","modified_gmt":"2019-09-23T09:15:50","slug":"have-you-noticed-how-social-media-purges-always-align-with-the-us-empire","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/2019\/09\/have-you-noticed-how-social-media-purges-always-align-with-the-us-empire\/","title":{"rendered":"Have You Noticed How Social Media Purges Always Align with the US Empire?"},"content":{"rendered":"

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12 Sep 2019 – <\/em>Twitter has suspended<\/a> multiple large Cuban media accounts<\/a> for reasons the social media platform has yet to explain as of this writing, a move which journalist Dan Cohen has described<\/a> as \u201cthe equivalent of silencing CNN, Fox, WaPo and NPR\u2019s accounts\u201d for that nation. The Union of Cuban Journalists has denounced<\/a> the move as censorship.<\/p>\n

Last month we saw Twitter suspend hundreds of accounts<\/a> which it claims originated in mainland China for engaging in \u201ccovert, manipulative behaviors\u201d against the Hong Kong protests, with Facebook<\/a>\u00a0and Google\/YouTube<\/a> following suit in the creepy, uniform coordination we\u2019ve come to expect<\/a> between these social media giants. In June of this year Twitter removed thousands of accounts<\/a> it claims were associated with the governments of Iran, Russia and Venezuela, as well as 130 accounts reportedly tied to the Catalan independence movement in Spain. In May Twitter removed 2,800 of what it claimed were \u201cinauthentic accounts originating in Iran<\/a>.\u201d Earlier this year, Twitter and Facebook coordinated with each other<\/a> to remove hundreds of accounts they claim were tied to \u201ccoordinated influence operations\u201d in Iran, Russia, and Venezuela.<\/p>\n

Cuba, China, Russia, Iran, Venezuela, and the Catalan independence movement. Noticing a pattern here?<\/p>\n

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Twitter just suspended the accounts of the biggest media outlets in Cuba and has given no reason. This is the equivalent of silencing CNN, Fox, WaPo and NPR\u2019s accounts, but Cuba is a target of the empire so these arbitrary suspensions don\u2019t generate outrage. https:\/\/t.co\/0fgEiX8bjL<\/a><\/p>\n

— Dan Cohen (@dancohen3000) September 12, 2019<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n