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Facebook has banned Libs of TikTok from the platform for breaking 'community standards' as the popular right-wing account has warned of 'extreme censorship' ahead of the 2024 election. The owner behind Libs of TikTok, Chaya Raichik, took to X (formerly known as Twitter) on Saturday as she posted the message she received about the account being deactivated on Facebook. 'The Page Libs of Tik Tok has been disabled for going against our Community Standards. You cannot visit the Page and you won't be able to add new people to the Page,' 'It's a shame that Mark Zuckerberg cares more about...

Takeaways * We will be ending the suspension of Mr. Trump’s Facebook and Instagram accounts in the coming weeks. * We’ve put new guardrails in place to deter repeat offenses. * The public should be able to hear what politicians are saying so they can make informed choices.Social media is rooted in the belief that open debate and the free flow of ideas are important values, especially at a time when they are under threat in many places around the world. As a general rule, we don’t want to get in the way of open, public and democratic debate on...

VIDEO https://www.facebook.com/arsen.avakov.1/videos/5069131156534111 ROUGH TRANSLATION FROM THE RUSSIAN: The reality and truth of three months of military aggression against Ukraine🇺🇦: CONS: - 20% of the territory of Ukraine is occupied; ⁃ huge losses among the civilian population; ⁃ military losses; ⁃ A number of cities were completely destroyed, many settlements suffered from bombing; ⁃ Infrastructure destroyed; ⁃ the economy is paralyzed; ⁃ The enemy we are beating still hangs over us with its 140 million people. PROS: + Ukraine from the first days provides the most brutal resistance, which surprises the whole world; + We have won many victories of valor...

Right now, the fight for control of Ukraine is taking place in the skies above Kyiv and in the streets of Mariupol. However while the conflict between Russian and Ukrainian forces in the sky and on the land has ground to a stalemate, Vladimir Putin and his virtual war machine dedicated to sowing disinformation are decidedly losing the information war. The Russian invasion of Ukraine marks the first major conflict in Europe to take place in the age of social media, an online space that Vladimir Putin has spent decades working to dominate. Over the years, Putin has carefully constructed...

The U.S. Government’s Vaccine Adverse Events Reporting System (VAERS) database was updated this past Friday, March 11, 2022, and it is now reporting that there have been 1,168,894 cases of injuries and deaths following COVID-19 vaccines since December of 2020, when the FDA issued emergency use authorizations for the COVID-19 vaccines. (Source.) By way of contrast, there were 926,031 cases of injuries and deaths following all FDA-approved vaccines for the previous 30+ years, from 1990 through November of 2020. (Source.)So there have been more injuries and deaths recorded in VAERS during the past 15 months following COVID-19 vaccines, than there...

Facebook parent company Meta has announced it will be implementing a ‘fact checking’ service in its messaging platform WhatsApp, in order to counter so-called ‘fake news’ during the upcoming French presidential election. The move is part of the company’s efforts to tackle so-called ‘fake news’ during the upcoming French presidential election, with the Silicon Valley giant also announcing new anti-disinfo measures for its Instagram and Facebook platforms. Facebook has also promised that it will make “significant efforts to combat the dissemination of false information” on its platforms, saying that it will “remove content” that violates the company’s “Community Standards”, Also...

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LifeSite News, a major pro-life news website, reports that Facebook has permanently blacklisted its page over “false information about COVID-19” and “vaccine discouraging information.” In a quick series of notices and emails to LifeSiteNews’ marketing department, Facebook delivered the shocking news, accusing LifeSite of publishing “false information about COVID-19 that could contribute to physical harm.” Facebook also said that they deplatform Facebook pages that publish “vaccine discouraging information on the platform.” Facebook cited an article posted on April 10, 2021, headlined “COVID vaccines can be deadly for some.” “Much like when LifeSite was removed from YouTube, this comes with little...

Facebook, which routinely adds its editorial comments to posts with which it disagrees, recently "fact-checked" a woman's complaint about her reaction to a coronavirus vaccine. Desiree Penrod, 25, said on Facebook after getting vaccinated in early March: "The vaccine is killing me today. My arm hurts, beyond exhausted, headache, stomach cramps and earaches." Penrod also posted: "Multiple people told me that I looked pale today. Yesterday, I was fine but today it's taking its toll on me." Facebook, citing the World Health Organization, added a disclaimer to a post by Penrose, "COVID-19 vaccines go through many tests for safety and...

Facebook will restore Australian news pages this week after reaching a deal with the government over its world-first law regulating big tech. The social media platform was condemned by politicians around the world after it blocked 25 million Australians from viewing and sharing news articles on Thursday. The 'arrogant and disgraceful' move - which also banned charity, health authority and emergency service pages - came after Australia's ground-breaking news media bargaining code passed the lower house of Parliament on Wednesday night. But following talks with Facebook boss Mark Zuckerberg, the government has made some last-minute changes to the law which...

“Now, if an ad explicitly discourages someone from getting a vaccine, we’ll reject it,” the company’s Head of Health Kang-Xing Jin and Director of Product Management Rob Leathern said in a blog post Tuesday. The new ban comes amid a series of policy changes announced by the company to rid its social networks of problematic content it had previously been hesitant to remove. This includes a ban on Holocaust denialism announced earlier this week, a ban on pages and groups espousing the QAnon conspiracy theory last week, a temporary ban on political ads following the Nov. 3 U.S. election, a...