Independent Journalist Ford Fischer is Temporarily Banned from Facebook for Reporting on Armed Protests
Shane Trejo
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On Saturday, independent journalist Ford Fischer was banned from Facebook after he livestreamed footage of a contentious armed protests on the monolithic social media platform.
Fischer, who regularly publishes raw video from protests through his News2Share outlet on various social media platforms, noted that he was banned after finishing a livestream of a contentious militia rally in Louisville, Ky.
I am a journalist, verified on Facebook. Today I spent the entire day covering various armed groups throughout Louisville.
As I just finished a livestream, I tried to log in and it appears @Facebook deleted my account. pic.twitter.com/PRZohhzCxC
— Ford Fischer (@FordFischer) September 5, 2020
Fischer tried to appeal Facebook’s capricious ban of his verified account, but his efforts were initially to no avail as he was kept off of the platform a full day.
I use the @BoxCast app to livestream to both Twitter and Facebook.
I didn’t receive any email or notification from Facebook; my account literally just outright vanished.
Boxcast seems to have sent this automatically when it happened. pic.twitter.com/3SuTlLJHXa
— Ford Fischer (@FordFischer) September 5, 2020
The libertarian reporter noted that he was not at the rally to support extremist political violence, but was there to perform his journalist duty to inform the public about what exactly was taking place at the event.
As you can see from the rest of the thread, there’s no explanation given whatsoever.
However, my last post on Facebook today was basically the same as this one: one of these photos and a comment about how dangerous these events I cover are when people don’t handle guns safely. https://t.co/n3L1NGXW3T
— Ford Fischer (@FordFischer) September 5, 2020
Fischer noted that he has been attached by other major tech platforms before, but Facebook’s decision to remove him from their platform completely is without precedent.
I should note: Youtube demonetized me last year. I spent seven months constantly nudging them online to fix it, and they ultimately admitted their mistake.
This is much worse. It is how I talk to my family and friends, as well as cover news. 10 years of life photos.
Devastated. https://t.co/2YIbLwMTy5
— Ford Fischer (@FordFischer) September 6, 2020
However, after significant push back from Fischer’s significant Twitter following, Facebook caved and let him back on the platform.
While Facebook never informed me why this happened, this was my last post before Facebook deleted my account.
Presumably, @Facebook mistook me writing about gun violence as me somehow endorsing or participating in it.
Facebook needs to fix this.
Algorithms cannot judge humans. pic.twitter.com/09PkJqa4so
— Ford Fischer (@FordFischer) September 6, 2020
Big League Politics has reported on how Facebook is ramping up their thought control operation heading into November’s election, updating their terms of service so they can arbitrarily throw any content off of their platform for basically any reason:
Facebook has announced an October surprise in the form of a new policy that will come into place just weeks before the November election.
“We also can remove or restrict access to your content, services or information if we determine that doing so is reasonably necessary to avoid or mitigate adverse legal or regulatory impacts to Facebook,” the new terms of service read…
This new policy will allow Facebook to capriciously censor content from Trump supporters in the lead up to this year’s presidential election. It is another encroachment in the real electoral interference conspiracy coming from the Silicon Valley tech giants…
Facebook is trying to use their monopoly power, granted to them under Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act, to influence elections. They are more dangerous to democracy than the Russians could ever hope to be.
Facebook’s targeting of Fischer, a non-partisan reporter who mostly publishes live video coverage of events, shows that their censorship crusade is about far more than eliminating so-called hate speech. It is about silencing all competitors of the corporate media so globalist schemes can be protected.
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