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Al-Mayadeen TV had 4.670.000 followers on Facebook after three years of operating (Al-Jazeera has 12 million, but it has been around longer than Facebook.) The Facebook page was deleted on January 19, 2016 and all links to their web site were banned.

This is a screenshot from a private chat. You cannot even send a link to the web page.


 * Facebook censors Syrian, Lebanese media pages in mass shut down - Lulu Mikhail, Al Masdar News, January 20, 2016
 * ''The sudden shut down has been attributed by followers to ‘mass reports’ in which large groups of Facebook users with opposing views target the pages they want censored. Often these movements are run by ‘paid trolls’ who have been known to be funded by entities associated with governments or corporations.
 * ''In these cases, the reports are usually not related to violations of Facebook’s community standards. Instead their purpose is to suppress free speech as well as damage the organisations financially, as they rely on social media outlets for revenue.