(Observer Network)
Hong Kong's "Amendment Bill Storm" has lasted for several months. Rumors from opposition and thugs' propaganda agencies are flying in the sky with rumors about the SAR government, police, and patriotic and Hong Kong-loving people. Although the facts have responded loudly, the accounts and content that maliciously spread related rumors are unscathed and continue to exert the "power of rumors" on foreign social platforms.
Hong Kong Wenhui.com reported that the American social network company facebook (Facebook ) is one of the important rumors spread bases. Facebook, which is rude to rumors, has repeatedly taken action against the news organization "Dian News", which is officially registered with the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region Government News Office.
reported that Facebook not only refused to pass the media certification of "Dian News", but also successively blocked accounts and "eliminated" pages within three days.
"Dou News" editorial department issued a solemn statement yesterday (14th), saying that legitimate rights and interests, news and freedom of speech were seriously damaged, and asked Facebook to explain in detail the reasons for the ban and lift the results of the handling under the double standards. It expressed strong indignation for Facebook's open suppression of press freedom and the act of extinguishing voices against the voice of justice and rationality, and raised solemn protests.
picture from "Dian News" website
revealed the truth and reported maliciously
It is reported that Hong Kong media "Dian News" was officially registered as a news organization in April this year with the Information Office of the SAR Government. In the three months since violent conflicts in Hong Kong have occurred frequently, they have served as the pioneering force in loving and protecting Hong Kong, bringing readers real and reliable news content, supporting the police's solemn law enforcement and supporting the restoration of social order, but because its report content is contrary to the positions of the tyrants and thugs, it is not conducive to the continued violent conflict between the tyrants and thugs, so they were maliciously complained.
On the eve of this month, "Dian News" included a video of "The thug teammates revealed that they were taking money and pretending to be reporters" and other news were maliciously reported. Facebook took action to delete the post, but after complaining, Facebook accepted the reason for the complaint, and the relevant posts were successfully restored.
"911" On the afternoon of the same day, "Dian News" suddenly banned the account on Facebook for "multiple repeated malicious complaints". After re-appraisal, the account was restored the next morning. Just as I thought the Facebook platform of Dian News was operating normally, suddenly on the night of the Mid-Autumn Festival on August 15, Dian News facebook was directly "eliminated" and all the contents of the page were completely deleted. However, Facebook did not explain any reason this time. Dian News asked about the reason, but no reply was received until the deadline.
After the first ban, Dian News immediately applied for media certification from the Facebook platform and provided proof of formal registration with the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region Government News Office, but received a reply yesterday morning and was rejected for certification application.
It is understood that after the account was "destroyed", Dian News received a large number of readers' emails asking to restart the platform, so Dian News decided to establish a new account on Facebook at noon yesterday to continue to bring reliable news to readers. However, Facebook made another move yesterday evening, claiming that the number of recommendations received by the relevant pages was "unusual", so it was necessary to stop the recommendation function for two weeks.
Dou News reserves the right to pursue legal investigation
"Dou News" editorial department issued a solemn statement yesterday, saying that as a news organization officially registered with the News Office of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region Government, it has been repeatedly banned from Facebook recently, and its legitimate rights and interests, news and freedom of speech have been seriously damaged.
"Dian News" expressed strong indignation and solemn protest against Facebook's openly suppressing press freedom and taking action to extinguish the voice of justice and rationality. And we will reserve the right to recover losses and protect our own rights and interests and freedom of the press through legal means.
"Dian News" requires Facebook to explain in detail the reasons for the ban, lift the results of the handling under this double standard, and at the same time review and modify relevant terms to avoid the malicious navy and hackers succeed.
"Dian News" emphasizes that the more you defend the truth, the clearer it becomes, and justice is in the hearts of the people. The confrontation in the public opinion field has long been commonplace in the entire Hong Kong news industry.The news releases and news videos published by Dian News were directly intervened by Facebook through administrative means, which has seriously trampled on the core values of Hong Kong's press freedom and the spirit of the rule of law.
"Dou News" asked Facebook whether it was trying to directly eliminate the voice of justice in order to help Hong Kong rioters protect the violent activities of Hong Kong rioters and fuel the "color revolution", and asked Facebook to explain what the relationship with Hong Kong rioters was.
It is worth mentioning that before the suppression of "Dian News", two American social media giants Facebook and Twitter closed nearly a thousand mainland accounts that exposed the rioters' behavior on the grounds that "official spread of fake news."
Fudan University Associate Professor of the Department of International Politics Shen Yi pointed out that although Twitter and Facebook are privately owned, the American elite's willingness to bind this platform to the US national interests is very clear; this platform must become a tool to serve the US national interests. From a specific perspective, as the advantages that the US once enjoyed are gradually disappearing, the "elegant" jurisdiction is increasingly replaced by "vulgar" suppression.
Foreign Ministry spokesman Geng Shuang responded to Twitter and Facebook banning the "China Official Support" account, saying that Chinese media used overseas social media to introduce Chinese policies, tell Chinese stories, and communicate with local people. I think this is reasonable. I don't know why some companies or some people reacted so strongly to this, and whether it hit their shortcomings?
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