Freedom of Speech: Federal Election Commission (FEC), Social Media Giants Powwow on Circumventing First Amendment
Kurt Nimmo | globalresearch.ca | 2019-09-04
It's hardly surprising The New York Times and The Washington Post didn't bother to report on the rally at the British Home Office in support of Julian Assange. | A quick search of the news reveals AOL and Reuters reported …
globalresearch.ca/fec-social-media-giants-circumventing-first-amendment/5687985

Hong Kong: Google censors China
Sara Flounders | workers.org | 2019-09-04
Google stripped away the illusion that the continuing protests in Hong Kong are about democracy when on Aug. 20 the internet monopoly suspended 936 Twitter accounts and disabled 210 YouTube channels, charging them with seeking to "discredit Hong Kong's pro-democracy movement and sow political discord in the city." (theguardian.com, Aug. . . . | Continue reading Hong Kong: Google censors China at Workers.org…
workers.org/2019/09/04/hong-kong-google-censors-china/

Selected Articles: Political Outrage in Britain over No-deal Brexit
Global Research News | globalresearch.ca | 2019-09-04
Our objective at Global Research is to recruit one thousand committed "volunteers" among our more than 50,000 Newsletter subscribers to support the distribution of Global Research articles (email lists, social media, crossposts). | Do not send us money. Under Plan A…
globalresearch.ca/selected-articles-political-outrage-britain-no-deal-brexit/5688125

#brexitmehole: Irish Twitter reacts to latest Commons turmoil
The Canary | thecanary.co | 2019-09-04
A very Irish hashtag trended on Twitter as people gave their verdict on the latest Brexit developments. | As British Prime Minister Boris Johnson and his Government lost a vote on Tuesday evening which saw MPs seize control of the parliamentary agenda, people on the other side of the Irish Sea were passing comment on social media using the hashtag #BrexitMeHole. | On flight Dublin to Berlin with @AerLingus — doors have just closed as we pull from gate: | Pilot announces that he expect…
thecanary.co/global/world-news/2019/09/04/brexitmehole-irish-twitter-reacts-to-latest-commons-turmoil/

Tech companies' account removals reveal pro-U.S. corporate slant
Julianne Tveten | peoplesworld.org | 2019-09-03
Who benefits as tech monopolies continue to remove or flag "coordinated" accounts in the name of "integrity" and "open conversation"? Last month, Twitter, Facebook, and Google suspended or removed accounts criticizing the ongoing protests in Hong Kong. The protests originated in opposition to a revised–and now suspended–extradition law proposed by the Chinese government, and have …
peoplesworld.org/article/tech-companies-account-removals-reveal-pro-u-s-corporate-slant/

Ex-Tory MP Phillip Lee quits to join Liberal Democrats
The Canary | thecanary.co | 2019-09-03
Former Conservative MP Phillip Lee has quit the party to join the Liberal Democrats. | In a moment of high drama in the Commons, Lee crossed the floor while prime minister Boris Johnson was delivering a statement on the recent G7 summit: | Here's @DrPhillipLeeMP going to sit with the Lib Dems. Govt no longer has a working majority pic.twitter.com/Vv9HBvF36s | — Daniel Kraemer (@dcak…
thecanary.co/breaking-news/2019/09/03/ex-tory-mp-phillip-lee-quits-to-join-liberal-democrats/

Please Shut Up, Mr. President, and Read Some Books
Michael Winship | commondreams.org | 2019-09-03
A display of a phone with tiny hands is seen near tweets by US President Donald Trump at "The Daily Show Presents: The Donald J. Trump Presidential Twitter Library" exhibition in Washington, DC on June 14, 2019. – The Daily Show opened the Washington, DC exhibition of "The Donald J. Trump Presidential Twitter Library" in celebration of President Trump's 73rd birthday. (Photo: Andrew CABALLERO-REYNOLDS / AFP / Getty Images) | www.commondreams.org/sites/default/files/styles/cd_special_coverage/public/views-article/thumbs/trump_read_book.jpg …
commondreams.org/views/2019/09/03/please-shut-mr-president-and-read-some-books?cd-origin=rss

Legal Loophole in New York Law Lets Rapists off the Hook
telesurenglish.net | 2019-09-03
A legal loophole in New York City states a rapist can not be charged with rape as the victim who became voluntarily intoxicated is not considered "mentally incapacitated" when it comes to consent, according to Manhattan District Attorney, Cyrus Vance Jr. | RELATED: | South Africans Storm Twitter Against University Student's Rape, Murder | "There is no difference between an intoxicated individual's ability to consent to sexual acts when he or she was drug…
telesurenglish.net/news/Legal-Loophole-in-New-York-Law-Protects-Rapists-against-Victims-20190903-0024.html

US-Israeli journalist reveals 'really sad' truth about far-right support for Israel
Ed Sykes | thecanary.co | 2019-09-03
Israeli-American journalist Mairav Zonszein has shared a "really sad" assessment of far-right support for the Israeli state. | As supporters of Donald Trump held a 'straight pride' event in Boston on 31 August, Zonszein tweeted about the presence of Israeli flags, insisting: | The Israeli flag…
thecanary.co/us/us-analysis/2019/09/03/us-israeli-journalist-reveals-really-sad-truth-about-far-right-support-for-israel/

Anti-Semitism or sarcasm? Labor Department official fired over misunderstood Facebook comments
rt.com | 2019-09-03
Less than three weeks into his new job, a Texas conservative has been forced out after Bloomberg dug through his Facebook history and claimed to have detected the whiff of anti-Semitism from three years ago. | Leif Olson clocked in for his first day on the job at the Labor Department's Wage and Hour Division on August 12, after being cleared for the position by the White House. Less than three weeks later, Olson handed in his resignation. | The reason? A journalist at Bloomberg Law dug through his Facebook history and unearthed some supposedly anti-Semitic comments he made in 2016. The journalist called his em…
rt.com/usa/467909-bloomberg-labor-anti-semitism/

Haitian Deputies Vandalize Lower House Ahead of PM Ratification
telesurenglish.net | 2019-09-03
A group of Haitian opposition deputies vandalized part of the Lower House Tuesday, in a bid to prevent the ratification of Prime Minister Fritz William Michel and his new government. | RELATED: | Haiti: First-Ever Patriotic Forum Seeks Agreement to Confront Crisis | Chairs and tables were overturned and thrown on the floor, according to images broadcasted on social media. | Some of the material was strewn everywhere and windows were broken, while documents were scattered…
telesurenglish.net/news/Haitian-Deputies-Vandalize-Lower-House-Ahead-of-PM-Ratification-20190903-0017.html

Despite Reversal for Harvard Student, Deportations Based on US Search of Social Media Denounced as Troubling 'New Normal'
Julia Conley, staff writer | commondreams.org | 2019-09-03
Representatives for Ismail Ajjawi, a 17-year-old Palestinian student who was refused entry to the U.S. last week when he arrived to begin his freshman year at Harvard, credited outcry that resulted from Ajjawi's treatment with forcing immigration officials to allow him into the country—while his story drew attention to similar cases. | www.commondreams.org/sites/default/files/styles/cd_special_coverage/public/headline/thumbs/gettyimages-8033713581.jpg …
commondreams.org/news/2019/09/03/despite-reversal-harvard-student-deportations-based-us-search-social-media-denounced?cd-origin=rss

New Report Warns of Deepfakes and Social Media Disinformation Campaigns That Aim to Undermine 2020 Election
Jessica Corbett, staff writer | commondreams.org | 2019-09-03
A report published Tuesday by New York University warns that fake videos and other misleading or false information could be deployed by domestic and foreign sources in efforts influence the U.S. 2020 presidential election campaign and details how voters, federal lawmakers, and social media companies can combat such disinformation. | www.commondreams.org/sites/default/files/styles/cd_special_coverage/public/headline/thumbs/report_cover_deepfakes.jpg …
commondreams.org/news/2019/09/03/new-report-warns-deepfakes-and-social-media-disinformation-campaigns-aim-undermine?cd-origin=rss

Western "Progressives" Support Yet Another Color Revolution in Hong Kong
K.J. Noh | dissidentvoice.org | 2019-09-02
Misinformed "progressive" western "activists" and pundits are putting down their remote controls and organic smoothies just long enough to tweet out that Hong Kong protesters need to be supported as paragons of virtue and justice. Some have even blogged and bloviated about the importance of these protests as a struggle for freedom against "dictatorship." Most …
dissidentvoice.org/2019/09/western-progressives-support-yet-another-color-revolution-in-hong-kong/

Fakes for me, not for thee: US govt to use false social media profiles to monitor immigrants
rt.com | 2019-08-31
US Citizenship and Immigration officers can now use fake social media accounts to surveil foreigners seeking visas and citizenship, even after years of US lawmakers blasting foreign rivals for supposedly doing the same. | Officers have until recently been banned from creating fictitious profiles, but a Department of Homeland Security (DHS) privacy review dated July 2019 but posted online on Friday has reversed that ban. According to the review, officers with the department's…
rt.com/usa/467715-immigration-officers-fake-profiles/

Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey's account 'compromised,' posted racial slurs
rt.com | 2019-08-30
Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey was hacked on his own platform, his company said, with a torrent of strange tweets sent from his account. Twitter said it is investigating the matter further. | Dorsey's Twitter account began putting out inflammatory tweets on Friday afternoon, just before 4pm, according to CNBC. Some of…
rt.com/usa/467651-jack-dorsey-hacked-twitter/

When Ilhan Omar Is Accused of Anti-Semitism, It's News. When a Republican Smears Muslims, There's Silence
Mehdi Hasan | theintercept.com | 2019-08-28
Rep. Ilhan Omar participates in a panel discussion during the Muslim Collective for Equitable Democracy Conference and Presidential Forum at the National Housing Center in Washington, D.C., on July 23, 2019. | the Benjamins, baby." | That is, of course, what Rep. Ilhan Omar famously tweeted on February 10, in response to a tweet from my colleague Glenn Greenwald decrying "how much time U.S. political leaders spend defending a foreign nation" — namely, the state of Israel. Then, when a journalist followed up by asking Omar w…
theintercept.com/2019/08/28/when-ilhan-omar-is-accused-of-anti-semitism-its-news-when-a-republican-smears-muslims-theres-silence/

Israel's Online Occupation of Palestine
Miriam Deprez | progressive.org | 2019-08-23
How a Facebook post can land you in prison.
progressive.org/dispatches/israels-online-occupation-of-palestine-deprez-190823/

Marjorie Taylor Greene: How an Outspoken MAGA Fan Built a Following in a World of Extremists
Hatewatch Staff | splcenter.org | 2019-08-16
Originally a MAGA supporter but now an emerging MAGA star, Marjorie Taylor Greene has deftly leveraged social media and confrontations in public to increase her visibility. Now she's entering politics as a GOP candidate for Georgia's 6th Congressional District.
splcenter.org/hatewatch/2019/08/16/marjorie-taylor-greene-how-outspoken-maga-fan-built-following-world-extremists