Censorship bonanza was sparked by Washington Post and Prop or Not shortly after Nov. 2016 election. Neocons thrilled about it, say censorship is ‘just beginning.’ Already on the books: if you support Brexit, you’re a Putin stooge-Consortium News, Blumenthal, Sprague

“Signs of Russian propaganda were: “Support for policies like Brexit, and the breakup of the EU and Eurozone”…

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10/24/18, “Facebook Censorship of Alternative Media ‘Just the Beginning,’ Warns Top Neocon Insider,“ Consortium News, Max Blumenthal and Jeb Sprague, Gray Zone Project

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(subhead): “PropOrNot Provides the Spark”

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“Less than three weeks after [Mrs.] Clinton’s [2016] defeat, The Washington Post’s Craig Timberg published a dubiously sourced report headlined, “Russian propaganda effort helped spread ‘fake news.’” The article hyped up a McCarthyite effort by a shadowy, anonymously run organization called PropOrNot to blacklist some 200 American media outlets as Russian “online propaganda.”

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The alternative media outfits on the PropOrNot blacklist included some of those recently purged by Facebook and Twitter, such as The Free Thought Project and Anti-Media. Among the criteria PropOrNot identified as signs of Russian propaganda were: “Support for policies like Brexit, and the breakup of the EU and Eurozone” and “Opposition to Ukrainian resistance to Russia and Syrian resistance to Assad.” PropOrNot called for “formal investigations by the U.S. government” into the outlets it had blacklisted….

According to Timberg, who uncritically promoted the media suppression initiative, Propornot was established by “a nonpartisan collection of researchers with foreign policy, military and technology backgrounds.”…

PropOrNot had been seemingly exposed as a McCarthyite sham, but the concept behind it — exposing online American media outlets as vehicles for Kremlin “active measures” — continued to flourish.“..
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Three among comments to Consortium News article:

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One: The official enemy was seamlessly switched from Islamic terrorists to Russia and China. And if you notice that, you're a Putin stooge:

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Two, below: Focusing on alleged “foreign enemies” distracts attention from the fact that America’s greatest enemies and meddlers in its elections are within what remains of its borders:

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Three, below: Democracies aren’t threatened by free speech, empires are:

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