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WikiLeaks Accuses Facebook of Censorship in Hillary Clinton Email Release
WikiLeaks Accuses Facebook of Censorship in Hillary Clinton Email Release
The Hillary Clinton email scandal was revived once again in the news this week, thanks to WikiLeaks’ release Wednesday of a searchable archive of 30,322 emails pulled from a private account she used during her tenure as secretary of state.
Two days later, WikiLeaks called Facebook on the carpet for allegedly blocking users’ access via the social network to WikiLeaks’ latest Clinton dispatch. If WikiLeaks’ charge is valid, the tech behemoth that Mark Zuckerberg built could effectively be aiding the presidential hopeful—and since well before Super Tuesday III, the mainstream media’s christened Democratic front-runner—in her efforts to keep those pesky emails from getting between her and the White House.
Here’s a closer look at the dust-up, which was fittingly touched off on social media. Below is the tweet WikiLeaks sent out Friday accusing Facebook of censorship:
~Snip~
Gauntlet thrown. But what does it mean?
The image included below the tweet’s text suggests a sequence of events, visually summed up in a screen shot, in which an unnamed Facebook user spotted WikiLeaks’ story about the Clinton email release and tried to get to the archive by clicking on WikiLeaks’ link as displayed on his or her Facebook news feed. Instead of taking the user to Clinton’s emails, the click produced a pop-up message containing a “security precaution” that warned, “your computer may be infected with a virus or a malicious browser extension.”..
Read more:
http://www.truthdig.com/eartotheground/item/wikileaks_accuses_facebook_of_censhorship_20160318
The Hillary Clinton email scandal was revived once again in the news this week, thanks to WikiLeaks’ release Wednesday of a searchable archive of 30,322 emails pulled from a private account she used during her tenure as secretary of state.
Two days later, WikiLeaks called Facebook on the carpet for allegedly blocking users’ access via the social network to WikiLeaks’ latest Clinton dispatch. If WikiLeaks’ charge is valid, the tech behemoth that Mark Zuckerberg built could effectively be aiding the presidential hopeful—and since well before Super Tuesday III, the mainstream media’s christened Democratic front-runner—in her efforts to keep those pesky emails from getting between her and the White House.
Here’s a closer look at the dust-up, which was fittingly touched off on social media. Below is the tweet WikiLeaks sent out Friday accusing Facebook of censorship:
~Snip~
Gauntlet thrown. But what does it mean?
The image included below the tweet’s text suggests a sequence of events, visually summed up in a screen shot, in which an unnamed Facebook user spotted WikiLeaks’ story about the Clinton email release and tried to get to the archive by clicking on WikiLeaks’ link as displayed on his or her Facebook news feed. Instead of taking the user to Clinton’s emails, the click produced a pop-up message containing a “security precaution” that warned, “your computer may be infected with a virus or a malicious browser extension.”..
Read more:
http://www.truthdig.com/eartotheground/item/wikileaks_accuses_facebook_of_censhorship_20160318
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