Facebook Purges Over 800 Accounts With Millions Of Followers; Prominent Conservatives Vanish

Via ZeroHedge

Just in time for midterms, Facebook has removed 559 pages and 251 accounts they claim have been spreading misinformation and spam. Several of the pages however – some with millions of followers, were pro-Trump conservatives who had spent years cultivating their followings.

Our @facebook page with over 2.1 million followers has been unpublished, along with over 800 other pages and accounts. The purge of alt-media is upon us. pic.twitter.com/6Q2oswVpBI

Facebook claims that “domestic actors” have been creating “fake pages and accounts to attract people with shocking political news,” reports Bloomberg.

“The people behind the activity also post the same clickbait posts in dozens of Facebook Groups, often hundreds of times in a short period, to drum up traffic for their websites,” Facebook said in a Thursday blog post. “And they often use their fake accounts to generate fake likes and shares. This artificially inflates engagement for their inauthentic pages and the posts they share, misleading people about their popularity and improving their ranking in news feed.”

Some pages Facebook removed had large followings of real and fake accounts. Nation in Distress, a conservative meme page, was followed by more than 3 million people, according to the Internet Archive, which stores historical versions of websites and other online content. –Bloomberg

That said, not all of the accounts with large followings were conservative; Reverb Press, for example, had over 700,000 followers and constantly attacked President Trump and Republicans, who they referred to as “cheating scumbags.”

A third left-leaning page, Reasonable People Unite, posted a screen shot of a Twitter user who said, “Somewhere in America, a teenage girl is listening to her parents defend Brett Kavanaugh and she is thinking to herself, if something like that happens to me, I have nowhere to go.” –WaPo

The digital nanny state strikes again…

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Enough Already
Enough Already
October 12, 2018 8:50 am

Three Canadian professors recently penned an editorial in an influential academic journal arguing that teaching students STEM (science, technology, engineering, and math) helps perpetuate “patriarchy,” “heteronormativity,” and other social ills.

https://pjmedia.com/trending/canadian-profs-claim-stem-promotes-eurocentrism-and-white-supremacy/

Lucky Strike
Lucky Strike
October 12, 2018 9:14 am

Sign up at Gab. Extend your tribe. You’re gonna need one another.

Friday morning
Friday morning
October 12, 2018 9:20 am

#CANCELFACEBOOK

SmallerGovNow
SmallerGovNow
October 12, 2018 9:36 am

My wife deleted her Farcebook account last month… Chip

James
James
October 12, 2018 11:24 am

Damn,just STOP using fecesbook/gaggle/twaddle ect.,go to options others mentioned.I know tis hard to not use something online without it being connected to gaggle but at least try.I will not use their maps/operas ect.

I believe we will also need alts for debits cards ect. as they also continue to “restrict sales”for certain items,so far,me debit card has not done it yet but the minute they do tis cancelled.Really hope folks who believe in free speech/firearm rights ect. get some alts in the making because the major players are tightening the noose.

Facecrack sucks donkey balls
Facecrack sucks donkey balls
October 12, 2018 11:52 am

Get the fuck off of Facebook and build a competing platform.

Come on TBP’ers. We can all hire Dutchman to code a new facecrack. The question is, what should we call it?

Bilco
Bilco
October 12, 2018 12:34 pm

Screw Facebook!!!! If someone is told by these Communists how to vote.Then said folks are going to get what they deserve in the long run. It is amazing to me how much the media can sway people. Like say Hollywood and their POZ. Constantly showing Blacks as wealthy and normal acting.When in truth 90% of them Can’t or Won’t assimilate into how the media shows them. Then there is the constant women warrior,as she takes on 2-3 husky men with her bare hands. Talk about nonsense. However many believe this to be true,and that includes those in Hollywood trying to shove it down our throats. If what is coming holds true. There is gonna be some very surprised people when they get slapped with reality.

BB
BB
  Bilco
October 12, 2018 1:48 pm

Or we can ask Trump to take all the tech companies .

TampaRed
TampaRed
  BB
October 12, 2018 2:09 pm

the feds broke up at&t,standard oil,etc.,why not facebook & google–
this morning i was using google & duck duck while searching for a diagnostic tool to work on my mower–
i have yahoo as my email–a couple of hours later i opened my email & there was an email from a company showing me their tools–my email had never been entered during the search–

Hektor
Hektor
October 12, 2018 9:46 pm

Facebook is next.