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Facebook announce crackdown against anarchists

20-8-2020 < Attack the System 39 158 words
 

I feel honored to have already been banned from Facebook. I was ahead of my time, apparently.


By Eko


Red/Black Notes


Social media giant Facebook today banned dozens of anarchist, anti-fascist and anti-capitalist pages after announcing a new crackdown against “anarchist groups that support violent acts”.


This crackdown against anarchists comes in the context of the largest uprising against police violence in the United States in a generation. United States President Donald Trump has blamed the African-American mass movement against police violence on “anarchists”, and has made repeated calls for anti-fascist activism to be designated a “terrorist organisation”. The US President, conservative politicians and right-wing media have been howling about the level of opposition to their politics expressed on popular social media platforms.


Facebook is responding to this political pressure.


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