by Andrea Zhok
A couple of days ago, it emerged that Meta (Facebook, Messenger, WhatsApp, Instagram) was obstructing research on the attack on Trump and blocking the most “iconic” photos of the event, describing them as “altered” based on the evaluation of “independent fact-checkers.”
Yesterday, it was revealed that the physical location of Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh, killed in Tehran, was identified by tracking communications on WhatsApp.
Today, Malaysian Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim demanded that the American giant Meta stop acting as an “instrument of Israel” after Instagram deleted his comments condemning Haniyeh’s assassination.
A few hours later, Turkey blocked Instagram after the platform removed content related to the Hamas leader assassinated by Israel.
Meanwhile, X removed the presidential verification checkmark from Maduro and added it to Edmundo Gonzales, the opposition leader who, according to Blinken and an exit poll conducted by a CIA-linked agency (Edison Research), won the Venezuelan elections.
Yet, there are still people — I heard this with my own ears from educated and seemingly informed individuals — who believe there is no censorship or manipulation on social media, that they are indeed the “realm of freedom.”
The reality is that American Deep State control over social media is now the greatest lever of informational manipulation worldwide and, after the military, the second most powerful weapon in the hands of the USA on a global scale.
