Guardian journalist has put out a video about his shadowbanning by Facebook, with an appeal for funds – Skwawkbox and others have been on the sharp end of that since 2017
Guardian journalist Owen Jones has published a video complaining of being shadowbanned by Facebook since he started covering Israel’s genocide in Gaza – and saying that this sudden ‘falling off a cliff’ of his reach has never happened to him before, forcing people to have to click specifically onto his page to find anything. He accompanied his announcement with an appeal for donations.
This is happening to Jones now – but it has been happening to Skwawkbox for more than five years, when the social media companies attacked Skwawkbox and other new left media after Jeremy Corbyn came within an inch of government. This site was also targeted by tech attacks to try to prevent followers accessing its content.
The shadowban is still happening, Skwawkbox regularly receives messages like this:
Jones’s output on Gaza has been decent and nobody should be shadowbanned – but as he noted himself, it has never happened to him before. In the days of his flipflopping over Corbyn – including in the run-up to the 2017 general election – perhaps he wasn’t inconveniencing the Establishment seriously enough.
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Even flipfloppers have feelings. Me, I’m wondering how he could continue taking his dirty penny from theguardnog after it showed its true colours re. Corbyn and the democratic biogenesis he provided.
He should have dumped it years ago!
Couldn’t happen to a nicer chap. Part of the problem, so suck it up.
Don’t book sales cover the need for begging?
not since the GUARDnog, NEW STATESMAN AND SPECTATOR made his last one “the book of the year”. https://www.amazon.co.uk/This-Land-Movement-Owen-Jones/dp/0241470943
Yes ‘what goes around comes around’ Jones deserves every bit of this. Some people might remember his despicable smears against Ken Loach. And after Israel’s 2014 bombardment of Gaza which killed 2,251 – 551 of them were children, Jones was at the forefront of the A-S smears.
He was even photographed partying with Jeremy Newmark and Ella Rose.
For the photograph and a listing of every Jones dirty A-S smear – see link.
https://labourheartlands.com/ken-loach-and-other-victims-of-owen-jones-guardian-pro-israel-smears/
Off topic:
According to a piece in Dorset Eye, in light of the responses over a ceasefire in Gaza, Muslim Census, along with MEND, ran a poll of voting intentions among Muslims if a GE was called tomorrow:
Will not vote — 40%
Independent — 21%
Green — 17%
LibDem — 10%
Labour — 5%
Tory — 0.6%
Asked also how they voted in 2019:
Labour — 71%
Did not vote — 12%
Tory — 9%
Other — 8%
Respondents: 30,000
No. constituencies responded from: 580 out of 650
https://dorseteye.com/labour-partys-muslim-votes-disappears-following-his-pro-israel-comments/
PW
Good example of how Independents Greens and Lib Dems could come together under the Gaza coalition to frustrate the Red and Blue Tories under the FPTP system
The ultimate aim would be a hung Parliament with PR as the price of cooperation
My Goodness! “40% Will Not Vote” gives the status-quo – and the corrupt, self-serving elite who triumph – a chilling inevitability.
“You will own nothing and be happy”.
Organized Labour was a wonderful dream while it lasted. Why aren’t people even slightly concerned; have enough even noticed?
Universal suffrage means nothing to the people being penned, herded, managed and controlled by their over-lords’ sheepdogs?