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Facebook was stopping users from posting links to Breitbart News and New York Post articles this week, claiming they count as “spam” and don’t follow “Community Standards.” The company later apologized, calling it a “bug.”

Members of the Silicon Valley elite are celebrating the Burning Man festival this week, which has been described as a “networking event” for Big Tech billionaires.

Facebook has banned Myanmar military officials from its social network, including the commander-in-chief of the country’s armed forces, for allegedly coordinating genocide and committing other atrocities.

Facebook has closed a number of “inauthentic” pages linked to Iran which attacked Brexit and Israel and supporting Jeremy Corbyn and Scotland separating from the United Kingdom — but the political establishment and broadcast media have remained remarkably quiet.

In an article published Friday, CNN reporter Oliver Darcy declared that claims of social media censorship of conservative voices are simply “false.”

Dr. Robert Epstein joined SiriusXM hosts Rebecca Mansour and Joel Pollak on Thursday’s Breitbart News Tonight to warn of technology firms’ growing political power.

Facebook is reportedly meeting with multiple other Silicon Valley Masters of the Universe Friday to discuss how to prevent the spread of “misinformation” across their platforms ahead of the 2018 U.S. midterm elections.

A new study from the University of Warwick has reported German cities and towns which use the social media platform Facebook more than average are far more likely to see “attacks” against asylum seekers.

“Social Media Giants are silencing millions of people,” President Trump warned on Twitter. 

Facebook on Thursday removed a piece by Salena Zito on why Trump supporters won’t care about Michael Cohen and Paul Manafort convictions. 

The ACLU has finally come out in support of Infowars host Alex Jones, who was banned across multiple social media platforms over the course of a single day, warning that “hate speech” policies could be “misused and abused.”

In a sign of infighting between Silicon Valley Masters of the Universe, Apple barred Facebook’s Onavo security app from the App Store after it failed to meet Apple’s privacy standards by collecting user data.

Social media platform Facebook has reportedly identified a number of countries utilizing the platform to run influencing campaigns aimed at misleading Facebook users worldwide about a number of issues.

Hard left Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn has set out plans to change the UK media, including taxing tech giants such as Google, Facebook, and Netflix to fund the BBC and demanding more “diversity.”

Ann Coulter called for mandating First Amendment protections to speech and expression across social media companies, offering her remarks in a Wednesday interview on C-SPAN’s Washington Journal with John McArdle.

Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg is reportedly pouring “millions into midterm initiatives,” through his Chan Zuckerberg Initiative.

Dennis Prager of Prager University appeared on Breitbart News Daily with Breitbart News Editor-in-Chief Alexander Marlow to discuss the censorship of conservatives on social media by the Masters of the Universe.

“We believe in the right of Americans to speak their minds,” Trump said, criticizing social media censorship.

Social media giant Facebook has reportedly developed a hidden system to assign “reputation scores” to users, rating their trustworthiness according to multiple factors. This system, reminiscent of the Chinese government’s “social credit system,” came to light in a new report by the Washington Post.

Rutgers professor James Livingston has officially been sanctioned by the university for a series of anti-white Facebook rants made earlier this year. Campus free speech group FIRE is defending the embattled professor from the university.

Social media giant Facebook has apologized to conservative non-profit group PragerU for banning multiple videos on the group’s Facebook page for “hate speech,” and the subsequent shadowbanning of the group’s page, which resulted in a 99.9999% drop in traffic.

Democrats are fine with ‘election interference’ when it comes from Silicon Valley.

Speaking about out-of-control bans on social media, President Trump warned: “it could be you tomorrow.”

The U.S. Chamber of Commerce and executives from massive tech conglomerates have teamed up to fight President Trump’s upcoming tariffs on Chinese imports.

The following is a speculative “future history” of how online free speech was protected from the censorship of Big Tech progressives by the creation of a regulatory agency known as the Federal Platform Commission. 

Twitter this week suspended InfoWars host Alex Jones for seven days for what it said were violations of its policies, following Facebook, YouTube, Apple, and Spotify’s simultaneous banning last week.

“Social Media is totally discriminating against Republican/Conservative voices,” Trump wrote on Twitter. “Speaking loudly and clearly for the Trump Administration, we won’t let that happen.”

Facebook censored the account of ACT! for America founder Brigitte Gabriel for publishing a post which called an accused terrorist who allegedly trained children to go on school shootings “sick and depraved.”

Conservative non-profit group PragerU appears to be facing Facebook censorship, as many recent posts from group are suffering from a 99.9999 percent drop in engagement based on Facebook’s own dashboard. The Social Media Masters of the Universe also pulled down two PragerU videos, which it labeled “hate speech.”

A newly filed lawsuit alleges that Facebook misled advertisers by inflating the “potential reach” figures for ad campaigns — the total audience that views ads on the platform.

Elizabeth Heng, the Republican nominee running to represent California’s 16th Congressional District, warned of left-wing technology companies’ increasing capacity to determine electoral outcomes. She offered her remarks in a Thursday interview with Breitbart Senior Editor-at-Large Rebecca Mansour and the Foreign Desk’s Lisa Daftari for SiriusXM’s Breitbart News Tonight.

Avi Yemini, a Jewish-Australian IDF veteran, conservative political blogger and political candidate, has been banned from Facebook allegedly for publishing “hate speech.”

Twitter has followed in Facebook’s footsteps by blocking a campaign video ad for Republican congressional candidate Elizabeth Heng. Facebook eventually admitted that a campaign video including the communist atrocities in Cambodia is not “shocking, disrespectful, or sensational,” but Twitter, which describes the ad as “obscene,” disagrees.

CNN, who led the campaign to have Infowars blacklisted from nearly every social network and Big Tech platform, joined in the protest this week to call out President Trump for allegedly attacking the “free press.”

Brad Parscale, the 2020 campaign manager for President Trump, criticized Silicon Valley’s “stifling” effect on free speech this week, declaring, “They must be stopped from turning the Internet into Big Brother.”

In an article echoing similar sentiments from other publications, Asian publication the Diplomat has published an opinion piece which claims that “Facebook’s Plan to Enter China Is Doomed to Fail.”