As Riot Police Begin Mass Arrests of Pipeline Protesters, Facebook Immediately Blocks LivestreamBy Matt Agorist Unicorn Riot has been on the ground since the protests began, providing an uncensored glimpse into the militarized police state being constructed around the protesters. However, Facebook has now rejected their coverage noting thatour security systems detected to be unsafe. According to reports, twenty-two protesters were arrested by police in riot gear, including two Unicorn Riot journalists. In an emailed statement to the Antimedia, a member of the Unicorn Riot said: At a critical moment of our coverage of a Dakota Access Pipeline direct action today, Facebooks automated censorship system blocked our video URL, shortly before two of our journalists were arrested onsite. As we started to cover todays direct action, our collective members immediately noticed that the full Livestream event URL (https://livestream.com/unicornriot/events/6340986) was being blocked from Facebook. Posts and comments with the URL both immediately triggered popup security alerts. We tried putting the same URL through Bitly shortening and that official Unicorn Riot page post was deleted by Facebook within a few minutes. Finally we went with sharing our Live Channel URL on our own website which had the embed included on it. Blaming both Facebook and law enforcement for blocking their media distribution, the collective member vowed,we will not let them stop our mission to amplify the voices of people who might otherwise go unheard, and broadcast the stories that might otherwise go untold. Also, as one member of the collective, I should point out it is obviously concerning when a large media conglomerate blocks URLs to competing video platforms, the Unicorn Riot member concluded. According to Motherboard, a Facebook spokesperson told them that the post was removed from Unicorn Riots page after the platforms automatic spam filter mistakenly flagged the Livestream link. The link was removed in error and restored as soon as we were able to investigate. Our team processes millions of reports each week, and we sometimes get things wrong. Were very sorry about this mistake, the spokesperson said. This exact same unsafe detection happens to the Free Thought Project on a regular basis. When articles go viral exposing a glaring case of police brutality or government corruption, Facebook quickly flags them as unsafe, and the links become unclickable and unsharable even in private messages. Eventually, Facebook gets enough complaints from readers who tell them that it is not unsafe and the link is restored. However, the momentum of the sharing and virility has been rendered effectively impotent by the previous move and the information is stopped in its tracks. Facebook censorship is coming to an ugly head. In just the past month and a half, weve seen the social media giant deactivate the account of Korryn Gaines, who was live streaming her arrest, just before being killed by police.Weve also seen Facebook censor the iconic image of the Napalm Girl, as well as removing any mention of Hillary Clintons collapse in the trending section. Matt Agorist is the co-founder of TheFreeThoughtProject.com, where this article first appeared. He is an honorably discharged veteran of the USMC and former intelligence operator directly tasked by the NSA. This prior experience gives him unique insight into the world of government corruption and the American police state. Agorist has been an independent journalist for over a decade and has been featured on mainstream networks around the world. Follow @MattAgorist. and now on Steemit Chinese-style censorship is now American style censorship Stay away from the greatest tool the C.I.A ever hadFacebook Get the word out to use Periscope App. The Facebook is finished!!!! Everybody cancel out you account NOW. Show SUCKFACE or whatever his name is that hes a piece of dog turd! This is where the 2nd Amendment comes into play. If the protesters were armed, professionally and responsibly, there would be no such action. But such an escalation has to be done appropriately with NO ONE brandishing. All were talking about is the presence of arms among, carried by a professional and well-behaved militia. The police would think twice. This is showing what America REALLY is If they were armed, they would be shot immediately, with weapons so much more powerful and plentiful than normal citizens can acquire. You cant stop violence with violence. Facehook = Borg. why does anyone use fakebook???????????? None should be surprised at this news. Zuckerberg has been under the hammer of this establishment ever since they allowed him to reinstate his citizenship to the USA. Remember when he renounced it shortly before Facebook went public, I believe it was back in 2012? 