Twitter has announced that it took down about 2,000 accounts in Venezuela, most of which it claimed were “engaged in a state-backed influence campaign.” This comes amid accusations of a US-led coup attempt.
The San Francisco-based social media giant released a blog post on Thursday saying that it removed 1,196 accounts located in Venezuela which it deemed to “appear to be engaged in a state-backed influence campaign targeting domestic audiences.” It also removed another 764 accounts, however, noted: “We are unable to definitively tie the accounts located in Venezuela to information operations of a foreign government against another country.”
The Twitter purge of accounts was met with criticism and accusations of censorship.
Host of the Empire Files, a documentary & interview series, Abby Martin lamented that amid Twitter censorship of pro-government supporters, “pro-coup Venezuelans & right-wing exiles dominate the media sphere.”
Read the rest here: https://www.rt.com/news/450320-twitter-venezuela-accounts-removed/
The synagogue of Satan folks don’t go for freedom of speech if it doesn’t fit their plans.
Interesting how the US didn’t mind everyone starving and zoo animals being eaten, but as soon as Putin arrives to discuss gold and oil, US fascism suddenly stomps its boot down, and everything suddenly becomes a ‘humanitarian effort’.
WE GOTTA SPREAD THAT DEMONOCRACY YA KNOW!!
All this means is those accounts where telling the truth about the situation.
Wow…..I didnt know we were living in China because that’s EXACTLY what they do whenever they want to prevent people from finding out what’s really going on during a civil unrest in their country.