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In a brazen, coordinated assault on independent media today, Facebook took down several hundred pages. Some such pages had literally millions of Facebook followers, including The Anti-Media, Free Thought Project, Reverb Press, and Police the Police. Despite the clear political motivations a sweeping purge against independent media outlets only weeks before the mid-term election, Facebook claimed that all of these pages had violated their policies on spam. Within hours of the

For the past seven decades, Noam Chomsky has been one of America’s most famous and most radical intellectuals. A groundbreaking thinker in the field of linguistics, Chomsky expanded his notoriety via a principled opposition to US foreign policy and cutting analysis of the propagandistic nature of the corporate media. Last year, at the age of 89, Chomsky relocated from his longtime home at MIT in Boston to the University of Arizona in Tucson. It was there this past May that, a

It speaks to Facebook's hubris that they probably did not see this coming. Sure, the RussiaGate storyline required at least a soupçon of evil Russian Facebook trolls -- Putinist villains who allegedly purchased less than $100k worth of ads, most of which went up after the election and some of which were for puppies -- but Facebook was just as much a victim in all of that as the rest of us... right? For years Facebook has been the undisputed champion of social media. According