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Facebook Admits to Blocking Wikileaks Links in DNC Email Hack

posted by janrinok on Tuesday July 26 2016, @08:57PM   
from the guess-which-side-they-are-on dept.

MrPlow writes:

Submitted via IRC for Runaway1956

Facebook admitted Sunday that it had blocked links to the Wikileaks trove of emails hacked from the Democratic National Committee.

In a Twitter post late Saturday, WikiLeaks accused the social media giant of "censorship" and gave its followers an online workaround, saying "try using https://archive.is."

The WikiLeaks allegation followed a firestorm of controversy that erupted earlier this year when former Facebook workers admitted routinely suppressing conservative news.

Source: https://nypost.com/2016/07/24/facebook-admits-to-blocking-wikileaks-links-in-dnc-email-hack/

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• Minitru Sends New York Post Story Down Memory Hole Minitru Sends New York Post Story Down Memory Hole (Score: 2) by butthurt on Tuesday July 26 2016, @10:43PM

  by butthurt (6141) on Tuesday July 26 2016, @10:43PM (#380481) Journal

  The link in the summary redirects my browser to a story from 2010 called "Trove of JFK photos sold at auction." The redirected URL:

  https://nypost.com/2010/12/09/trove-of-jfk-photos-sold-at-auction/ [nypost.com]

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• I'm looking for new links I'm looking for new links (Score: 2) by janrinok on Wednesday July 27 2016, @08:11AM

  by janrinok (52) on Wednesday July 27 2016, @08:11AM (#380651) Journal

  Thanks for the warning. And the archive link has also disappeared - I will try to find new links.

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  • Re:I'm looking for new links (Score: 1) by butthurt on Wednesday July 27 2016, @09:00AM

    by butthurt (6141) on Wednesday July 27 2016, @09:00AM (#380662) Journal

    Thanks for answering. All the links are working now.

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