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Facebook Admits to Blocking Wikileaks Links in DNC Email Hack

posted by janrinok on Tuesday July 26 2016, @08:57PM   Printer-friendly
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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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday July 27 2016, @01:16AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday July 27 2016, @01:16AM (#380553)

    Or, baring anything else, RESEARCH THE FUCKING STORY YOURSELF.

    All of 10 seconds on google could have confirmed the story from other sources, and possibly given different points of view, which makes for a FAR more interesting post than "I don't accept The New York Post as a credible source. Pshaw."

    There, that was easy, wasn't it?

    So easy you couldn't manage it yourself.

  • (Score: 2) by The Mighty Buzzard on Wednesday July 27 2016, @01:29AM

    by The Mighty Buzzard (18) Subscriber Badge <themightybuzzard@proton.me> on Wednesday July 27 2016, @01:29AM (#380562) Homepage Journal

    Did you miss the word "lazy"?

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    My rights don't end where your fear begins.

  • (Score: 2) by janrinok on Wednesday July 27 2016, @07:48AM

    by janrinok (52) Subscriber Badge on Wednesday July 27 2016, @07:48AM (#380644) Journal

    You could always submit a better story - to add to the 2 that you have already submitted earlier this year. We always need more material from which to choose stories for the front page.

    And you might also log in and use your Username - or perhaps you are just being lazy in much the same way that Runaway1956 admitted he was being when he accepted a link without supporting it with a handful of others. :)