We have been banned by Facebook for three days for posting a link to an external website exposing that the notorious fake news site Yournewswire, run by Sean Adl-Tabatabai, has now manifested as Newspunch.com.
Others have been banned many times and for much longer for postings related to the same website/character which use a fake ‘journalist’ called Baxter Dmitry, who doesn’t exist, to ‘write’ so many fake stories that they have their own archive on fact-checker websites.
Facebook claim to be targeting ‘fake news’ (an excuse to target the genuine alternative media) but people are banned for exposing these fake news sites? What is going on?
Others might choose to post this link to Facebook and see how widespread this censorship policy really is … http://hoax-alert.leadstories.com/3468724-fake-news-website-yournewswire-renames-itself-as-newspunch.html
The non-existent ‘Baxter Dmitry’ in two guises – the man on the right is actually a friend of Sean Adl-Tabatabai called David Hardy.
‘As of a few hours ago all links to articles on the notorious fake news website yournewswire.com seem to be getting redirected to newspunch.com. The move has not been officially announced on the site as far as we can tell. It seems likely the move is an effort to dodge various fake news filters on social media and in search engines by swapping a ‘burned’ domain name for a (pre-aged) untainted one.
If you search Google for “yournewswire.com” several of the top results indicate the site is fake news (having your own dedicated category on Snopes.com is a dead giveaway).’
Read more: Fake News Website YourNewsWire Renames Itself As NewsPunch
