Venezuelanlaysis.com has been a widely acclaimed source of news and analysis of Venezuelan politics since 2003. It provides a critical look at the nation鈥檚 pro-poor Bolivarian Revolution and the mainstream media鈥檚 often highly distorted reporting of it. The site鈥檚 collective released slightly abridged the statement below about the temporary suspension of its Facebook page on August 16.
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For the second time this year, Facebook suspended TeleSUR English鈥檚 page on August 13, the next day.
After supports of the left-wing Latin American site campaigned against the removal, Facebook restored it on August 15, that day.
The Cambridge Analytica scandal has put data harvesting in the spotlight, but聽Tom聽Walker聽writes that the problem goes far beyond Facebook.
Dozens of聽Palestinian journalists聽protested social media giant Facebook on March 5, criticising its routine blocking of accounts from the Middle Eastern country.
In Melton, an outer-western suburb of Melbourne, Shane Gillard, a man with links to the far-right group Soldiers of Odin, used Facebook to blame 鈥淪udanese thugs鈥 for a carjacking on February 9.
However, as surfaced, the truth emerged: no Sudanese immigrants were involved, but two men had a violent altercation in a carpark before the offender, 鈥渙f Caucasian appearance鈥, stole the other's car.
