This lecture was delivered at the Socialist Equality Party (US) summer school, held August 1 through August 6, by Niles Niemuth, a writer for the World Socialist Web Site .
The Socialist Equality Party in the United States held a summer school from August 1 through August 6. It was devoted to an analysis of the major social and political events in the US and internationally since the previous SEP school, held in July of 2019.
Facebook’s suspension of Donald Trump is not a free speech issue
On Wednesday, Facebook decided to uphold its suspension of former US President Donald Trump from using its services. In a separate move Thursday, Twitter suspended a ‘sock puppet’ account for the former President that reposted short messages from his personal website. Trump remains banned on Twitter.
President Donald Trump speaks during a news conference [Credit: AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster]
On January 6, then-President Trump instigated a mob to storm the US Capitol building, aiming to stop the certification of the election and stage a coup. As a part of this operation, Trump loyalists amongst the military and police orchestrated a stand-down of federal forces in Washington D.C. in order to facilitate the attack.
. David North and Thomas Mackaman, eds. Mehring Books, 2021. Pp. xxvi, 339; 28 plates. $24.95
The falsification of a society’s history is a tyrant’s weapon. As are mythologies of blood. In its ongoing mission to disorient and divide the American working class, the
New York Times has wielded both these weapons with its 1619 Project, which asserts that the “true founding” of the United States dates back to the year the first African slaves arrived in Virginia rather than to 1776, the year of the signing of the Declaration of Independence.
The 1619 Project debuted as a special edition of the
New York Times Magazine in August of 2019. Promoted by the
Facebook CEO Zuckerberg says company will “depoliticize” its News Feed
In a fourth quarter financial earnings call with investors on Wednesday, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg said that the social media platform was preparing to implement measures to permanently depoliticize the Facebook News Feed of billions of users around the world each day.
Mark Zuckerberg giving keynote address at F8 2018 conference [Source: Wikimedia Commons]
Zuckerberg, Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg and CFO Dave Wehner also discussed during the call the fact that the company beat analysts’ predictions and increased revenue over last year by 33 percent between October and December, taking in $28.1 billion. A transcript of the call has been published online by The Motley Fool.