FACEBOOK DELETES PAGE OF HIGH-TRAFFIC SITE REPORTING ON DRUG CARTEL ACTIVITY
Facebook Deletes Page Of High-Traffic Site Reporting On Drug Cartel Activity
February 22, 2020 by Dave Gibson
On February 13, Borderland Beat staff announced that Facebook had deleted their website’s very popular page.
They report daily on arrests, drug busts and the often gruesome murders committed by the Mexican drug cartels.
The site, which is known as a ‘narco blog,’ began in 2009, as an alternative to the mainstream news media, which largely ignores the ever-growing power the cartels have, not only in Mexico, but inside the United States as well.
Borderland Beats’s site reports:
Recently someone reported the page and it was suspended, we were never notified what content was the problem. I immediately appealed. The staff on Facebook reviewed the page and they felt the whole page violated the community standards and chose to just delete the whole page permanently. I find this move might have an ulterior motive.
Many people in Mexico rely heavily on Borderland Beat’s reporting, as most of that nation’s newspapers and television networks have stopped reporting on drug cartel activity, out of fear and intimidation, as hundreds of journalists have been killed or gone missing in the last several years.
As of Feb. 19, 2019, the site’s traffic counter read a rather astounding 72,594,400 visits “since December 3, 2009.”
Additionally, the site’s Facebook page had more than 100,000 followers when the page was removed for supposedly “violating community standards.”
This is only the latest example of Facebook’s censorship of seemingly anything that does not comply with the company’s obvious open-borders agenda.
But, is there another, more sinister reason behind this action?
In July, at the International Conference on Cyber Security in New York, U.S.
Attorney General William Barr announced that WhatsApp, a messaging service, over which voice and video calls, text messages, images and documents can be sent, has become the preferred method of communication for drug cartel operatives, due to the service’s high level of encryption.
We have seen how transnational drug cartels increasingly transfer their communications to these commercially available encrypted platforms designed to block legal access,” stated Barr.
Of course, Facebook owns WhatsApp.
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