In the past few years, social media sites like YouTube, Twitter and Facebook have declared a war on information that conflicts with the mainstream narrative or fable that is desired to be accepted by the populace. This war on alternative information ends up being a war on truth and freedom.
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The war on so-called "fake news" has taken many forms. YouTube, Twitter and Facebook have been purging conservative-leaning content for a while, and this has recently expanded to natural health and alternative medicine. Independent health media has already been targeted by Google, where they have buried independent media stories in order to manipulate readers and the established protect powers in society. Google's slogan of "don't be evil" has been applied to many areas of information they consider to be harmful, with a cannabis oil video being banned on YouTube.
These media giants are attempting to delegitimize information that can be lifesaving through their powers of censorship and banning access to information. They want to control what you're allowed to read or hear. Dissenting thought is not desired, and they will do what they can to scrub it from the Internet.
Facebook's CEO, Mark Zuckerberg, has recently announced that Facebook will be hiring an additional 3,000 employees to help regulate control information people get to access. Facebook is also following in the footsteps of Google, as it begins to target and dismantle natural health pages from its site. Facebook has new rules that covertly target the natural health community. The "fake news" agenda is being applied to groups that use labels like organic, natural, traditional and wellness among others to flag their content and take down pages.
Some of the pages taken down in June include those in this list provided by Health Freedom Idaho:
Some pages had hundreds of thousands, if not millions, of followers. But it doesn't matter what value information can provide to people as long as Facebook determines it to be a threat to the established consensus of "truth". It seems like the agenda isn't the real "fake news" or false information, but more about alternatives that don't promote Big Pharma.
Independent health content is only the latest category to be targeted by the dictators of information. In efforts to control political information, ads relating to political content are expected to be required to go through a verification process.
This is all likely stemming from the last presidential election, where "fake news" was used to blame the Democrats losing. In order to "safeguard" the political process they will be fighting and controlling ads related to "national legislative issues of public importance". This can be for subjects like taxes, or even health or values that they want to promote or deny people the access to learn about.
Taxes, health or anything related to the way of life of a nation and its politics seem to be fair game. They don't want allow just anybody to openly talk about subjects that are giving a message contrary to the establishment narratives. Facebook now has "carte blanche" to target whoever they want for whatever justifications they may have. But these reasons won't be clearly defined since Facebook wants to prevent "bad actors" from being able to game or get around their enforcement system.
Snopes and PolitiFact are also likely to be used as alleged "fact checking" sources to help eliminate "fake news" from being propagated or even remain posted for people to see. These sites have already been exposed for their bias against conservative or Republican-leaning informational sources. Their conclusions aren't always based in truth, but are instead based in their own political agendas as they spin stories rather than evaluate statements for facts.
The image being given to the public is that social media sites are being transparent about their alleged "concern" for facts, but it's all a smokescreen. They are silencing content. They are "burning books" so-to-speak, by removing access to information. A mass censorship has been underway in recent years, and control over the information we can get access to is increasing. Will the Internet stop being a source of free access to information at some point? Will everything eventually end up being controlled?
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