[Sdalliance] article: "Google censors the left" (Black Agenda Report)

[Monty Kroopkin]

 Fellow Workers, Friends, It is of course beyond 'bad enough' that only 5 or 6 giant corporations now own the majority of TV, radio, cable, and major city daily newspapers. One of my communications professors in college, Herb Schiller, often told students we shouldn't be smug about news censorship in the state-controlled media of the Soviet Union, because corporate-controlled media in 'The West' did a tremendous job of censorship too. He studied these things. This article reviews a new development in the monopolized control of so-called social media and internet search services.https://blackagendareport.com/google-censors-the-real-left "Back in September 2016 Reuters ran an article declaring that the First Draft Coalition, including Google, Facebook, Twitter, New York Times, Washington Post, BuzzFeed News, Agence France-Presse and CNN intended to launch an effort to combat fake news. A shadowy outfit calling itself PropOrNot surfaced in November 2016 with an anonymously compiled list of 199 sites it said “reliably echo Russian propaganda.” More than half the sites were right wing nutjobs, from the nazis at StormFront to the libertarians at the Ron Paul Institute. But about twenty or so were entirely credible sources of news and information to the left of mainstream Democrats, including DemocracyNow! the World Socialist Web Site, Alternet, Naked Capitalism, Counterpunch, TruthOut! and Black Agenda Report." I strongly recommend reading both the full article from Black Agenda Report and the linked article from the World Socialist Web Site.  Monty
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