Strike back Against Media Purge, 21st Century Inquisition

Some 800 antiestablishment accounts and pages have been yanked from Facebook in a sweeping crackdown the social media giant framed as a fight against spammers. Among the hundreds of pages and accounts Facebook and Twitter took down were those both on the political left and right, ranging from conspiracy theorists and police brutality watchers, to news outlets with nonmainstream angles, While their content could be at times described as controversial, the bulk of the banished pages boasted large followings and outreach.