Facebook censors media experiences of BLM co-founder’s $1.4 million dwelling

Facebook is now censoring articles from each the New York Post and the Daily Mail, which element the controversial actual property buying-binge of BLM co-founder Patrisse Khan-Cullors. Khan-Cullors bought a complete of 4 luxurious homes valued at $3.4 million within the U.S. Khan-Cullors, who’s a self-described Marxist, got here below fireplace just lately for buying a property value $1.4 million in a predominantly white neighborhood.
However, criticisms of her have been censored on Twitter, with Twitter locking accounts of people that shared experiences revealing Khan-Cullors’ exorbitant buy. Now, an error message from Facebook greets any person who needs to share both the New York Post article or the Daily Mail article, about Khan-Cullors’ a number of property purchases.
“Your post couldn’t be shared, because this link goes against our Community Standards,” the error message says when any try is made to submit the article hyperlink on the social media platform.
“This content was removed for violating our privacy and personal information policy,” mentioned Facebook in a press release to Tucker Carlson Tonight on Fox News.
The New York Post additionally experiences on the criticism that Khan-Cullors’ obtained from fellow activists on the information of her property purchases going public. Hawk Newsome, the top of Black Lives Matter Greater New York City, which isn’t affiliated with Khan-Cullors’ Black Lives Matter Global Network Foundation (BLMGNF), known as for “an independent investigation” to learn how the BLM international community spends the cash it raises by way of donations.
“If you go around calling yourself a socialist, you have to ask how much of her own personal money is going to charitable causes,” he mentioned. “It’s really sad because it makes people doubt the validity of the movement and overlook the fact that it’s the people that carry this movement.”
The BLMGNF has issued a press release clarifying that the funds Khan-Cullors used to buy lavish actual property properties didn’t come from BLMGNF funds. The basis additionally made the weird declare that articles reporting on Khan-Cullors’ spending spree have been one way or the other contributing to “a tradition of terror by white supremacists”.
Patrisse Cullors is the Executive Director of Black Lives Matter Global NetworkFoundation (BLMGNF). She serves on this position in a volunteer capability and doesn’t obtain a wage or advantages. pic.twitter.com/w43HJOdg2f— Black Lives Matter (@Blklivesmatter) April 13, 2021
Khan-Cullors is a self-described Marxist, stating in a December 2020 video that she believes in Marxism.
“I do believe in Marxism. It’s a philosophy that I learned really early on in my organizing career. We were taught to learn about the systems that were criticizing capitalism. We were taught to understand why there were philosophies that were criticizing capitalism. I’m working on making sure that people don’t suffer. I’m working to make sure people don’t go hungry,” Khan-Cullors says within the video.

It is to be famous {that a} comparable article detailing Khan-Cullors’ actual property purchases from Black Enterprise, a black-owned media firm that covers black-owned companies, was allowed to be shared by Facebook customers. 
This new wave of censorship marks an escalation from Big Tech firms of their conflict in opposition to Free Speech and Expression. Just final month, Facebook censored Lara Trump interviewing her father-in-law and former U.S. Prez Donald Trump, drawing criticism from conservative voices.
In October 2020, Twitter censored the New York Post from reporting an correct information story about Hunter Biden. Last month, Twitter CEO admitted that his platform made a “total mistake” by barring customers from sharing The NY Post’s bombshell information report about Joe Biden’s son Hunter Biden’s emails.