Social Media Giants Ban Trump, but the Real Censorship is of Palestinians Comments
In the wake of the Capitol Hill insurrection, Facebook and Twitter finally took a principled stand against President Donald Trump by suspending his accounts. While Trump lashed out at the tech giants, media analysts condoned the move noting stronger moderation of his and other inflammatory posts are long overdue.
Facebook, Twitter, and other social media behemoths have faced criticism over the years for allowing misinformation and dangerous incitement to run rampant on their platforms. Yet while these companies seem to fail at controlling right-wing propaganda, they’ve had no problem suppressing content on Palestine.
During that time, he has worked tirelessly to ensure there is little daylight between himself and Mr Trump. It s just the extent to which he has spent time in political hot spots, either in purple states that were hotly contested in last year’s presidential election or attending events that are clearly aimed at appeasing and sort of engaging in the care and feeding of Trump’s base,” Nick Schwellenbach, a senior investigator at the Project on Government Oversight in Washington, told
The National.
“It’s just been very unusual for a secretary of state to spend so much time on those kinds of things.”
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Deadliest Israeli raids on Syria kill 57
World
January 14, 2021
BEIRUT: Israeli air strikes on east Syria killed 57 regime forces and allied Iran-backed fighters, in the deadliest such strikes since the start of the conflict, a war monitoring group said on Wednesday.
The overnight raids against arms depots and military positions killed at least 14 Syrian regime forces, 16 Iraqi militia fighters and 11 Afghan members of the pro-Iran Fatimid Brigade, said the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights.
The nationality of the remaining 16 who lost their lives in the 18 strikes was not immediately clear. This is the largest death toll from Israeli raids in Syria, Observatory head Rami Abdul Rahman told AFP.
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