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Facebook Shuts Down Pro-Populist Italian Pages Before EU Elections
Facebook has shut down 23 major populist Italian pages with 2.5 million followers just two weeks before the European elections.
According to Italian media, the majority of the pages supported the populist parties La Lega (The League) and the 5-Star Movement (M5S) — who currently govern Italy in a temporary coalition.
Facebook has justified its dramatic move by claiming that the sites shared fake news, so-called “hate speech”, and “divisive content” regarding immigrants, vaccines, and Jewish people.
Facebook used information from a report produced by a left-progressive NGO called Avaaz, which deals with “human rights” and environmental campaigns.
“We thank Avaaz for sharing its research so we could investigate,” said a Facebook spokesperson. “We are committed to protecting the integrity of the EU elections and around the world. We have removed a series of false and duplicate accounts that violated our policies on the subject of authenticity, as well as several pages for violation of the policy on changing the name.”
“We have also taken action against some pages that have repeatedly spread misinformation. We will take further measures if we find other violations,” the spokesperson warned.
In its report, which was presented to Facebook on May 3, Avaaz said it had identified 14 Italian networks on Facebook comprising 104 pages and six groups, with a total reach of 18.2 million followers.
This week, Facebook took punitive action against 23 pages in these networks, with a total of 2.46 million followers and 2.44 million interactions over the last three months.
Facebook has also reportedly “weakened” pages that spread content with allegedly false news, presumably making them less visible to Facebook users.
The technical motivation for the closing of the pages is linked to name changes: it is claimed they initially suggested themes that did not seem to allude to political parties or movements, but later changed the theme.
Among the closed pages are “We want the 5-star Movement in government”, which had 129,000 followers and almost 700,000 interactions in three months, “Beppe Grillo for President”, “Lega Salvini Sulmona” — which had 307,000 followers” — “Lega Salvini Premier Santa Teresa of Riva”, and “We Are 5 Stars.”
The most active page in support of the Lega party was among those closed, just as polls are showing that the Lega is currently the party with the most support among Italians for the upcoming elections.
Facebook’s efforts in Italy to influence the European elections are just the tip of the iceberg, Italian media noted.
According to the Italian daily La Repubblica, on May 2 Facebook opened a “war room” in Dublin devoted full time to the European electoral campaign, with 40 teams of engineers, scientists, researchers, threat specialists, and experts for each country.
There are 500 people working on the elections, with the assistance of 21 supposed “fact-checkers,” operating in 14 different languages.
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14 Comments
4 years ago
They are meddling in elections. I’m surprised no one has hacked them right back. I mean from China or somewhere.
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4 years ago
Sorry but you are wrong.
Publically traded is a corporation whose ownership is dispersed among the general public in many shares of stock which are freely traded on a stock exchange or in over-the-counter markets.
I may be mistaken but I believe Mark Z is the CEO and holds approx. 28% of the stock, so the rules ard different
4 years ago
Reply to
World@70
Zucky owns 60% of the voting shares in Facebook. He has TOTAL CONTROL and TOTAL RESPONSIBILITY for its actions. If you want to change anything about FB you deal with him alone.
4 years ago
4 years ago
Reply to
Patrick
A ZILLION UP VOTES!
Exactly right!
Censoring out the opposition brain washes people into believing it.
Where oh where is brilliant Rafael Cruz, er Ted? Never mind he was just re-elected with Trump’s help.
He’s safe for another term.
4 years ago
Reply to
felix1999
I wish we had a conservative equal to this company. Competition is a good thing.
Shocking news. Sad news. I hope that country will be okay.
4 years ago
Reply to
Tm.
We do, it’s called Gab! Check it out. It needs our support to stay afloat or we will be stuck with fakebook.
4 years ago
If you don’t think social media is planning to do that to Trump in 2020 you’ve over dosed on Kool Aid.
They are purging websites and doing test runs on censoring others now. No one is topping them.
What are you going to do in the homes stretch of the 2020 campaign – expedite it to the Supreme Court?
Notice how slllllllllllllllllllooooooooooooooooooowwwwwwwwwwwwwwww they are with decisions. Look at how they vote. It’s usually close 5-4 and they don’t have a clue about technology. IF they decide to hear it, by the time they make their decision Biden will have won.
4 years ago
The left continues with its carefully planned social engineering of the West.
4 years ago
Let’s just shut that worthless frigging FB down! STOP USING IT! I have, and I urge others to do the same!
4 years ago
This is just a preview and dress rehearsal of what Big Brother Zucky and his ilk have planned for the 2020 Elections In the USA.
4 years ago
Reply to
John Acord
I call him “Little” Mark. Remember, he had to sit on a booster seat to testify in front of Congress. Please, don’t call him “big” anything. “Little Brother” maybe?
4 years ago
Fakebook is a social networking site. It is NOT a news site. If you get your news and information from Fakebook, you are a sorry excuse of an individual. There is no doubt that fakebook has an agenda and it is NOT on our side. We have known that for a long time. The difference now is that they are no longer hiding it. It’s like whining about the bias in the lame stream media. They are not going to change their tune. Find another source of information and stay off of fakebook.
