Shadow Ban: Prager University Reveals Immediate 99.9999% Drop in Facebook Reach
Shadow Ban: PragerU Reveals Immediate 99.9999% Drop in
Facebook Reach
In an unprecedented management shakeup co-founder Mark
Zuckerberg remained chief of Facebook, with chief operating officer Sheryl
Sandberg his second-in-command
17 Aug 2018
Conservative non-profit group PragerU appears to be
facing Facebook censorship, as many recent posts from group are suffering from
a 99.9999 percent drop in engagement based on Facebook’s own dashboard. The
Social Media Masters of the Universe also pulled down two PragerU videos, which
it labeled “hate speech.”
Echoing the apparent page limitation of conservative
commentating duo Diamond and Silk, the conservative non-profit group PragerU —
which produces educational videos on conservative issues — appears to have
found its Facebook page’s reach drastically limited. The group’s Facebook page
boasts three million followers, but its most recent posts have been seen by
almost none of its followers, according to the Facebook dashboard.
PragerU social media influencer Will Witt posted a
screenshot of the Facebook page’s dashboard which shows a number of statistics
relating to posts from the page, including the reach posts have and how many
users have clicked on links in the posts. According to the photos posted by
Witt, PragerU’s last nine posts have reached between one and three of their
followers. Previous posts have reached between 50,000 and 95,000 of PragerU’s
followers.
Witt also posted a number of screenshots of PragerU
videos that have been removed by Facebook for “hate speech.” The videos that
were removed include one titled “Make Men Masculine Again,” and “Where are the
Moderate Muslims?”
Witt said in his Facebook post: “Our last 9 posts have
been completely censored reaching 0 of our 3 million followers. At least two of
our video posts were deleted last night for “hate speech” including a post of
our recent video with The Conservative Millennial, Make Men Masculine Again.”
PragerU faced similar censorship on YouTube where its
videos were limited and placed behind an age warning. PragerU took YouTube to
court over the issue but the suit was thrown out by a federal judge as the
judge ruled that YouTube did not violate the First Amendmentt.
PragerU CEO Marissa Streit previously commented on
censorship by tech companies stating:
There’s been a lot of outrage in our culture and while
I’m the last person to advocate for even more hysteria, this is one issue that
should unite all Americans, on either side of the political spectrum, in our
collective outrage over internet censorship. We cannot allow companies like
Google/YouTube to operate as authoritarian tyrants who control the flow of
information in a time in history we call the information age. If we do, the
information age will become a dark age, and what we currently understand as
freedom of speech will become distorted and twisted until it isn’t really free
speech at all. We risk losing this uniquely American heritage, which is really
the foundation of our democracy.
Breitbart News reached out to Facebook for comment but
they did not immediately reply.
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