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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, @11:28AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday July 27 2016, @11:28AM (#380694)

    Try re-enabling/re-creating your FB-account (using the same email-address as that first time).
    Don't be too surprised about how much FB conveniently manages to provide again.
    Most of your initial account was never actually deleted, just made inaccessible to normal users (of course, FB's analysis and inference tools keep access to this data).