New York, October 13 (RHC)-- Facebook and Twitter have once again banned numerous alternative political and anti-establishment pages and users on the pretext of platform policy misuse regulations.  The mass banning of many prominent anti-war and anti-establishment pages was accompanied by an official statement from Facebook explaining that the ban targeted pages using “political content” to engage in “spam related behavior.”

“Today, we’re removing 559 pages and 251 accounts that have consistently broken our rules against spam and coordinated inauthentic behavior,” read part of the statement.  Twitter followed suit, banning a number of known politically active users and pages albeit without giving any formal explanation.

Prominent alternative pages such as The Free Thought Project, The Anti-Media, Police the Police and Filming Cops were banned on both platforms even though having followers varying from between 3 million to 1.5 million on Facebook.   The move by Facebook and Twitter was decried by many observers as one more blatant example of corporate media trying to dominate news and information circulating in public venues.