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TechCrunch reports on January 19:
Russian state-funded media company RT (previously Russia Today) was temporarily banned from posting content to Facebook — a move that would have prevented the organization form posting articles, photos or video to the social network until Saturday, the day after Trump's inauguration. However, Facebook says now that it has lifted the ban, and will look into the reasons behind the block.
"All the features for this page owner have now been restored. We are looking into the reasons behind the temporary block," a Facebook spokesperson said.
Separately, RT claimed that it had been blocked by Dataminr, which provides analytics on top of the firehose of Tweets on Twitter to parse and alert its customers about when things happen. It's used by media and other organizations to track Tweets for news and other large events.
The Facebook ban would have allowed RT to post text updates to Facebook, but not other media content.
According to a post on RT's website, the ban would have lasted until Saturday, 2:55 PM EST. The reason for the block is being attributed to an illegal live-stream of President Obama's final press conference Wednesday. But RT denies this, saying they were running an AP stream of the event instead.
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(Score: 2) by bob_super on Monday January 23 2017, @08:17PM
Classic negotiating technique ... "The Union backed out of their 30% raise demands, and will settle for 5% instead".
Our Negociator-In-Chief (praised be His name) will keep on doing this: Go straight for the Absurd, so people are relieved when He later agrees to the Merely Excessive.
(Score: 2) by isostatic on Tuesday January 24 2017, @02:33PM
That's a good technique to shift the overton window in your direction, however that's a different technique to the distraction technique.
The media has X hours of effort to hold the government to account. If it spends 80% of that time on reporting about obviously false facts that everyone agrees and are largely irrelevant, it misses out the subtleties, the orders passed under the radar, and it makes the opposition no better than football fans.