Facebook is engaged in what the evidence suggests is a "midterm purge" of conservative news sites, and several prominent, old-school bloggers have been swept up in it.  The online platform removed "559 Pages and 251 accounts" for what they claimed were violations of the rules regarding spam and possessing multiple online accounts under false names to disseminate fake news. Most prominent among them is Right Wing News.  With more than 3 million Facebook followers, you would think that even the censors at Facebook would recognize that RWN is an important part of the online conservative media. Gizmodo reports on Facebook's fatuous reasoning: In a blog post, Facebook cybersecurity policy head Nathaniel Gleicher and product manager Oscar Rodriguez explained that the 800 removals were prompted by violations of its rules against spam and "coordinated inauthentic behavior."  The post spends a...(Read Full Post)