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General News    H4'ed 12/30/18

Facebook's Secret Censorship Manual Exposed as Platform Takes Down Video About Israel Terrorizing Palestinians

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Journalist Rania Khalek's video was restored after public outcry; she said the ability of social media giants "to disappear content as they please" is "creepy and alarming and should be loudly opposed." 

A review of 1,400 pages provided to the newspaper by a concerned employee "revealed numerous gaps, biases, and outright errors," Fisher wrote. "The closely held rules are extensive, and they make the company a far more powerful arbiter of global speech than has been publicly recognized or acknowledged by the company itself."

Facebook "is intervening into political and social matters the world over," acting "like an unseen branch of government," and "is doing this all on the cheap, shipping disorganized PowerPoint slides to outsourcing companies it can barely control. And it is making many, many mistakes along the way."

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