Posted on 12/26/2015 4:48:44 AM PST by HomerBohn
Facebook has sensationally banned a story about a 'refugee' raping a Swedish woman in line with the company's new policy to censor anti-migrant posts deemed to be "xenophobic".
The Infowars story, which explained how a north African migrant who participated in the gang rape of a woman in Stockholm got off without charge, was posted on Facebook yesterday but disappeared from the website within hours.
A query of the URL on Facebook's 'Debugger' website reveals that, "this link is blocked." Any attempt to post the link on Facebook results in failure
Apparently, Facebook feels it is more important to control the narrative on the migrant crisis than to defend rape victims.
The company's policy was leaked during a conversation between Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg and German Chancellor Angela Merkel earlier this year which was caught on a hot mic. Zuckerberg promised Merkel that he was working on censoring anti-migrant posts.
It subsequently emerged that the German government and Facebook were working with ex-Stasi agent Anetta Kahane to identify "xenophobic" posts made on the social networking website and punish people who make them with fines and jail sentences.
As we highlighted back in January, Facebook's new censorship policy also allows users to flag content which "annoys" them or which they deem to be offensive. This allows large mobs of agenda-driven social justice warriors to mass flag posts for deletion.
The new policy was justified by Facebook's need to eliminate "fake news," but the same excuse doesn't apply in this case. The story about the refugee gang rape of the Swedish woman was featured in numerous different mainstream news outlets, including The Local and FriaTider.
Facebook has previously censored political content on numerous occasions. Back in May, the winner of the Muhammad art contest in Garland, Texas that was attacked by gun-wielding jihadists was banned by Facebook, before his account was restored after vociferous complaints.
The Alex Jones Facebook account was also temporarily suspended over an image of an ISIS militant that couldn't even be considered offensive by any stretch of the imagination.
As the Gatestone Institute highlights, Facebook is censoring a rape epidemic in Germany that has led citizens to obtain firearms and pepper spray in their droves.
German police are also deliberately censoring information about migrants committing rapes and other crimes so as not to "legitimize" critics of mass immigration.
It is a site that I have absolutely nothing to do with. Zuckerberg is a fallen Jew who fits in perfectly with the anti-Judeo-Christian gaggle.
I go to Facebook about once a month now. Its such a meaningless platform for anything other than keeping in touch and sharing photos.
re: Facebook Censors Story About ‘Refugee’ Raping Swedish Woman
Just curious, but when did Facebook become a government agency?
The EVIL Alex Jones and his Truther rag Infowars is also banned from FreeRepublic.com.
Dear World,
Facebook is voluntary and free. You get what you pay for. Suck it up and move on.
Disgusting.
HOORAY Paul J. Watson
Was the story untruthful?
Do you own stock in Facebook?
The same way CNN, NYT did.
volunteered.
Reluctantly and decidely I deactivated my FACEBOOK account. FB is part of the larger problem. MUCH of what is reposted is twisted and warped to promote someones pet peeves, and very little honest and factual reports.
“Facebook is voluntary and free. You get what you pay for. Suck it up and move on.”
Too bad that only applies to anything that leans liberal.
Not so for a Christian cake shop. You don’t want to know
what they have to suck up.
If queers want cake, they shouldn’t go to a Christan cake shop. If intelligent conservatives want liberty, they shouldn’t go to Facebook.
If a female member of Zuckerberg’s family should ever be assaulted, raped or God forbid murdered, he’ll do a 180 degree change of opinion.
If he’s a man that is.
“If queers want cake........they shouldn’t go to Facebook”
That’s the way it should be, but it’s not. If Facebutt try’s to
censor conservatives they should be sued into compliance just
like the Christan cake shop. Your point is moot because that
world just doesn’t exist anymore. It’s all about force.
“the winner of the Muhammad art contest in Garland, Texas that was attacked by gun-wielding jihadists was banned by Facebook, before his account was restored after vociferous complaints.”
again:
“before his account was restored after vociferous complaints.”
“vociferous complaints” = force.
That’s the world we live in now.
Perhaps you missed the part where Merkel told Zuckerberg that the German government wanted anti-immigrant postings dealt with.
Welcome to Sweden
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3KSJY0c8QWw
Western media has decided to ride their businesses into the bankruptcy rather than report the truth.
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