<story><title>Facebook blocks Pulitzer-winning reporter over Malta government exposé</title><url>https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/may/19/facebook-blocks-malta-journalist-joseph-muscat-panama-papers</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>phantom_oracle</author><text>I&amp;#x27;ve said it before and I&amp;#x27;ll say it again, the real issue here is that in 2017 (and beyond), the only way&amp;#x2F;place that you will be able to reach an audience is via these walled-gardens known as Facebook&amp;#x2F;Twitter&amp;#x2F;etc.&lt;p&gt;This is the same company that fought against US legislature (SOPA or whatever it was called) but created its own non-neutral &lt;i&gt;internet.org&lt;/i&gt; for the third-world.&lt;p&gt;The only race that these giant advertising media&amp;#x2F;companies are in is the race for: total-observation&lt;p&gt;and unlike the &lt;i&gt;evil government from 1984&lt;/i&gt; , these leech-like data-harvesting entities are celebrated by their peers for re-inventing MySpace and IRC over and over again.</text></comment>
<story><title>Facebook blocks Pulitzer-winning reporter over Malta government exposé</title><url>https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/may/19/facebook-blocks-malta-journalist-joseph-muscat-panama-papers</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>johnnydoe9</author><text>A friend posted screenshots from the movie Spotlight, before the credits the list of churches and it got deleted for hurting religious sentiments. He tried to fight it but didn&amp;#x27;t win. The caption was just &amp;quot;something needs to be done about this&amp;quot;</text></comment>