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Tyler Durden – Facebook Bans Zero Hedge

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I was on Twitter the other day and it kept warming about tweets that they said contained inappropriate data and I had to click on an view button to see it. When I clicked on I expected to see stuff about Russia-gate, or the Skripal hoax, or Assnge, etc, but it was just criticism of the finance sector, something you might read in the Guardian, or the Financial Times, even. It was just under one guy. Maybe he had tweeted something they didn't like and now they were blanking half his posts, I don't know?  Over the weekend, we were surprised to learn that some readers were prevented by Facebook when attempting to share Zero Hedge articles. Subsequently it emerged that virtually every attempt to share or merely mention an article, including in private messages, would be actively blocked by

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I was on Twitter the other day and it kept warming about tweets that they said contained inappropriate data and I had to click on an view button to see it. When I clicked on I expected to see stuff about Russia-gate, or the Skripal hoax, or Assnge, etc, but it was just criticism of the finance sector, something you might read in the Guardian, or the Financial Times, even. It was just under one guy. Maybe he had tweeted something they didn't like and now they were blanking half his posts, I don't know? 

Over the weekend, we were surprised to learn that some readers were prevented by Facebook when attempting to share Zero Hedge articles. Subsequently it emerged that virtually every attempt to share or merely mention an article, including in private messages, would be actively blocked by the world's largest social network, with the explanation that "the link you tried to visit goes against our community standards."

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Mike Norman is an economist and veteran trader whose career has spanned over 30 years on Wall Street. He is a former member and trader on the CME, NYMEX, COMEX and NYFE and he managed money for one of the largest hedge funds and ran a prop trading desk for Credit Suisse.

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