{"id":6884,"date":"2015-04-30T17:04:22","date_gmt":"2015-04-30T22:04:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thewei.com\/kimi\/?p=6884"},"modified":"2015-09-03T02:42:11","modified_gmt":"2015-09-03T07:42:11","slug":"facebook-also-blocks-mention-of-presidential-candidate-bernie-sanders","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thewei.com\/kimi\/facebook-also-blocks-mention-of-presidential-candidate-bernie-sanders\/","title":{"rendered":"Facebook also blocks mention of presidential candidate Bernie Sanders"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/thewei.com\/kimi\/wp-content\/uploads\/Screen-Shot-2015-04-30-at-5.49.25-PM.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/thewei.com\/kimi\/wp-content\/uploads\/Screen-Shot-2015-04-30-at-5.49.25-PM-1024x262.jpg\" alt=\"Bernie Sanders 2016 on Twitter\" width=\"640\" height=\"164\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-6890\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thewei.com\/kimi\/wp-content\/uploads\/Screen-Shot-2015-04-30-at-5.49.25-PM-1024x262.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/thewei.com\/kimi\/wp-content\/uploads\/Screen-Shot-2015-04-30-at-5.49.25-PM-225x58.jpg 225w, https:\/\/thewei.com\/kimi\/wp-content\/uploads\/Screen-Shot-2015-04-30-at-5.49.25-PM-300x77.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a>Facebook is 0 for 2 today. Doing a great job suppressing the progressive voice, which is not surprising given its founder is a great friend of conservative darling <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/corybooker\">@corybooker<\/a> and heavily supports the conservative agenda.<\/p>\n<p>A few minutes ago I reported that Facebook wouldn&#8217;t let me share news about <a href=\"http:\/\/thewei.com\/kimi\/facebook-blocks-news-about-newarks-new-civilian-police-review-board\/\">Newark&#8217;s new civilian police review board<\/a>. Now they won&#8217;t let me share a <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/berniesanders\"\">Bernie Sanders<\/a> quote either&#8230;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Most Americans, their reality is that they\u2019re working longer hours and for lower wages ~ Bernie Sanders<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>&#8230;on the grounds that it mentions a man who happens to be a United States Senator at present, and is also a person who today announced his presidential candidacy for the 2016 race.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/thewei.com\/kimi\/wp-content\/uploads\/Screen-Shot-2015-04-30-at-5.41.36-PM.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/thewei.com\/kimi\/wp-content\/uploads\/Screen-Shot-2015-04-30-at-5.41.36-PM-1024x793.jpg\" alt=\"FB blocks mention of Bernie Sanders\" width=\"640\" height=\"496\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-6891\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thewei.com\/kimi\/wp-content\/uploads\/Screen-Shot-2015-04-30-at-5.41.36-PM-1024x793.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/thewei.com\/kimi\/wp-content\/uploads\/Screen-Shot-2015-04-30-at-5.41.36-PM-225x174.jpg 225w, https:\/\/thewei.com\/kimi\/wp-content\/uploads\/Screen-Shot-2015-04-30-at-5.41.36-PM-300x232.jpg 300w, https:\/\/thewei.com\/kimi\/wp-content\/uploads\/Screen-Shot-2015-04-30-at-5.41.36-PM.jpg 1628w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Facebook is 0 for 2 today. Doing a great job suppressing the progressive voice, which is not surprising given its founder is a great friend of conservative darling @corybooker and heavily supports the conservative agenda. A few minutes ago I reported that Facebook wouldn&#8217;t let me share news about Newark&#8217;s new civilian police review board. &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/thewei.com\/kimi\/facebook-also-blocks-mention-of-presidential-candidate-bernie-sanders\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Facebook also blocks mention of presidential candidate Bernie Sanders&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":28,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1,4,5,160,1192],"tags":[1831,1830,516],"class_list":["post-6884","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-all","category-digital-life","category-government-trade","category-news-truths","category-politics-2","tag-bernie","tag-blocks","tag-facebook"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thewei.com\/kimi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6884","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thewei.com\/kimi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thewei.com\/kimi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thewei.com\/kimi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/28"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thewei.com\/kimi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6884"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/thewei.com\/kimi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6884\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7876,"href":"https:\/\/thewei.com\/kimi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6884\/revisions\/7876"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thewei.com\/kimi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6884"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thewei.com\/kimi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6884"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thewei.com\/kimi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6884"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}