Authored by Robert Bridge, op-ed via RT.com, 70 years ago, the British writer George Orwell captured the essence of technology in its ability to shape our destinies in his seminal work, 1984. The tragedy of our times is that we have failed to heed his warning. \x3csource srcset=\"https://zh-prod-1cc738ca-7d3b-4a72-b792-20bd8d8fa069.storage.googleapis.com/s3fs-public/styles/inline_image_desktop/public/inline-images/5d161afdfc7e9303348b4576.jpg?itok=aJ8l_JHM 1x\" media=\"all and (min-width: 1280px)\" type=\"image/jpeg\">\x3c/source>\x3csource srcset=\"https://zh-prod-1cc738ca-7d3b-4a72-b792-20bd8d8fa069.storage.googleapis.com/s3fs-public/styles/inline_image_desktop/public/inline-images/5d161afdfc7e9303348b4576.jpg?itok=aJ8l_JHM 1x\" media=\"all and (min-width: 480px)\" type=\"image/jpeg\">\x3c/source>\x3csource srcset=\"https://zh-prod-1cc738ca-7d3b-4a72-b792-20bd8d8fa069.storage.googleapis.com/s3fs-public/styles/inline_image_desktop/public/inline-images/5d161afdfc7e9303348b4576.jpg?itok=aJ8l_JHM 1x, https://zh-prod-1cc738ca-7d3b-4a72-b792-20bd8d8fa069.storage.googleapis.com/s3fs-public/styles/inline_image_desktop/public/inline-images/5d161afdfc7e9303348b4576.jpg?itok=aJ8l_JHM 2x\" media=\"all and (min-width: 1024px)\" type=\"image/jpeg\">\x3c/source>\x3csource srcset=\"https://zh-prod-1cc738ca-7d3b-4a72-b792-20bd8d8fa069.storage.googleapis.com/s3fs-public/styles/inline_image_desktop/public/inline-images/5d161afdfc7e9303348b4576.jpg?itok=aJ8l_JHM 1x\" media=\"all and (min-width: 768px)\" type=\"image/jpeg\">\x3c/source>\x3csource srcset=\"https://zh-prod-1cc738ca-7d3b-4a72-b792-20bd8d8fa069.storage.googleapis.com/s3fs-public/styles/inline_image_mobile/public/inline-images/5d161afdfc7e9303348b4576.jpg?itok=cAsP7tnN 1x\" type=\"image/jpeg\">\x3c/source>\x3c!--[if IE 9]>\x3c/video>\x3c![endif]-->\x3cimg data-entity-type=\"file\" data-entity-uuid=\"e20aece1-3c51-41a6-b913-72e7f51a02c0\" data-responsive-image-style=\"inline_images\" height=\"281\" width=\"500\" src=\"//mtdata.ru/u20/photo62A1/20209679382-0/original.jpg#20209679382\" alt=\"\" typeof=\"foaf:Image\" />\x3c/picture>\x3c/a>\x3c/p>\n\n\x3cp>\x3cstrong>No matter how many times I read 1984, the feeling of total helplessness and despair that weaves itself throughout Orwell’s masterpiece never fails to take me by surprise.\x3c/strong> Although usually referred to as a ‘dystopian futuristic novel’, it is actually a horror story on a scale far greater than anything that has emerged from the minds of prolific writers like Stephen King or Dean Koontz. The reason is simple. The nightmare world that the protagonist Winston Smith inhabits, a place called Oceania, is all too easily imaginable. Man, as opposed to some imaginary clown or demon, is the evil monster. \x3c/p>\n\n\x3cp>\x3cstrong>In the very first pages of the book, Orwell demonstrates an uncanny ability to foresee future trends in technology. \x3c/strong>Describing the protagonist Winston Smith’s frugal London flat, he mentions an instrument called a ‘telescreen’, which sounds strikingly similar to the handheld ‘smartphone’ that is enthusiastically used by billions of people around the world today.\x3c/p>\n\n\x3cblockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-lang=\"en\">\n\x3cp dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\" xml:lang=\"en\">\"Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two makes four. If that is granted, all else follows\" \x3ca href=\"https://twitter.com/hashtag/orwell?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\">#orwell\x3c/a> #1984 \x3ca href=\"https://t.co/UxisBmL9lZ\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com/UxisBmL9lZ\x3c/a>\x3c/p>\n— Dennis Junk (@DJunkInTheTrunk) \x3ca href=\"https://twitter.com/DJunkInTheTrunk/status/1143977011528028160?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\">June 26, 2019\x3c/a>\n\x3c/blockquote>\n\x3cscript async=\"\" src=\"https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\">\x3c/script>\x3cp>Orwell describes the ubiquitous device as an \x3cem>“oblong metal plaque like a dulled mirror”\x3c/em> affixed to the wall that \x3cem>“could be dimmed, but there was no way of shutting it off completely.”\x3c/em> Sound familiar?\x3cstrong> It is through this gadget that the rulers of Oceania are able to monitor the actions of its citizens every minute of every day. \x3c/strong>At the same time, the denizens of 1984 were never allowed to forget they were living in a totalitarian surveillance state, under the control of the much-feared Thought Police. Massive posters with the slogan ‘Big Brother is Watching You’ were as prevalent as our modern-day advertising billboards. Today, however, such polite warnings about surveillance would seem redundant, as reports of unauthorized spying still gets the occasional lazy nod in the media now and then.\x3c/p>\n\n\x3cp>\x3cstrong>In fact, just in time for 1984’s anniversary, it has been \x3ca href=\"https://www.rt.com/usa/462770-nsa-caught-unauthorized-surveillance/\" target=\"_blank\">reported\x3c/a> that the National Security Agency (NSA) has once again been illicitly collecting records on telephone calls and text messages placed by US citizens. \x3c/strong>This latest \x3ca href=\"https://www.wsj.com/articles/nsa-improperly-collected-u-s-phone-records-a-second-time-11561541520\" target=\"_blank\">invasion\x3c/a> of privacy has been casually dismissed as an\x3cem> “error”\x3c/em> after an unnamed telecommunications firm handed over call records the NSA allegedly \x3cem>“hadn’t requested”\x3c/em> and \x3cem>“weren’t approved”\x3c/em> by the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court. In 2013, former CIA employee Edward Snowden blew the whistle on the NSA’s intrusive surveillance operations, yet somehow the government agency is able to continue – with the help of the corporate sector – vacuuming up the private information of regular citizens. \x3c/p>\n\n\x3cp>\x3cstrong>Another method of control alluded to in 1984 fell under a system of speech known as ‘Newspeak’, which attempted to reduce the language to ‘doublethink’, with the ulterior motive of controlling ideas and thoughts. \x3c/strong>For example, the term ‘joycamp’, a truncated term every bit as euphemistic as the ‘PATRIOT Act’, was used to describe a forced labor camp, whereas a ‘doubleplusgood duckspeaker’ was used to praise an orator who ‘quacked’ correctly with regards to the political situation.\x3c/p>\n\n\x3cp>Another Newspeak term, known as ‘facecrime’, provides yet another striking parallel to our modern situation. Defined as \x3cem>“to wear an improper expression on your face (to look incredulous when a victory was announced, for example) was itself a punishable offense.”\x3c/em> \x3cstrong>It would be difficult for the modern reader to hear the term ‘facecrime’ and not connect it with ‘Facebook’, the social media platform that regularly \x3ca href=\"https://www.rt.com/op-ed/458314-alex-jones-facebook-censorship/\" target=\"_blank\">censors\x3c/a> content creators for expressing thoughts it finds ‘hateful’ or inappropriate.\x3c/strong> What social media users need is an Orwellian lesson in ‘crimestop’, which Orwell defined as \x3cem>“the faculty of stopping short, as though by instinct, at the threshold of any dangerous thought.”\x3c/em> Those so-called unacceptable ‘dangerous thoughts’ were determined not by the will of the people, of course, but by their rulers.\x3c/p>\n\n\x3cp>And yes, it gets worse. Just this week, Mark Zuckerberg’s ‘private company’ \x3ca href=\"https://www.rt.com/news/462653-france-facebook-hate-speech/\" target=\"_blank\">agreed\x3c/a> to give French authorities the\x3cem>“identification data”\x3c/em> of Facebook users suspected of spreading ‘hate speech’ on the platform, in what would be an unprecedented move on the part of Silicon Valley.\x3c/p>\n\n\x3cp>\x3cstrong>‘Hate speech’ is precisely one of those delightfully vague, subjective terms with no real meaning that one would expect to find in the Newspeak style guide.\x3c/strong> Short of threatening the life of a person or persons, individuals should be free to criticize others without fear of reprisal, least of all from the state, which should be in the business of protecting free speech at all cost.\x3c/p>\n\n\x3cp>Another modern phenomenon that would be right at home in Orwell’s Oceania is the obsession with political correctness, which is defined as \x3cem>“the avoidance of forms of expression or action that are perceived to exclude, marginalize, or insult groups of people who are socially disadvantaged or discriminated against.”\x3c/em> But since so many people today identify with some marginalized group, this has made the intelligent discussion of controversial ideas – not least of all on US college \x3ca href=\"https://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/92484292-132.html\" target=\"_blank\">campuses\x3c/a>, of all places – exceedingly difficult, if not downright dangerous. \x3cu>\x3cem>\x3cstrong>Orwell must be looking down on all of this madness with much surprise, since he provided the world with the best possible warning to prevent it.\x3c/strong>\x3c/em>\x3c/u>\x3c/p>\n\n\x3cp>For anyone who entertains expectations for a happy ending in 1984, be prepared for serious disappointment (spoiler alert, for the few who have somehow not read this book). Although Winston Smith manages to finally experience love, the brief romance – like a delicate flower that was able to take root amid a field of asphalt – is crushed by the authorities with shocking brutality. Not satisfied with merely destroying the relationship, however, Smith is forced to betray his ‘Julia’ after undergoing the worst imaginable torture at the ‘Ministry of Love’.\x3c/p>\n\n\x3cp>The book ends with the words, \x3cem>“He had won the victory over himself. He loved Big Brother.”\x3c/em> Will we too declare, like Winston Smith, our love for ‘Big Brother’ above all else, or will we emerge victorious against the forces of a technological tyranny that appears to be just over the horizon? Or is Orwell’s 1984 just really good fiction and not the instruction manual for tyrants many have come to fear it is? \x3c/p>\n\n\x3cp>\x3cstrong>An awful lot is riding on our answers to those questions, and time is running out.\x3c/strong>\x3c/p>\x3cimg src=\"//mtdata.ru/u20/photo18C4/20432752231-0/original.gif#20432752231\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\" alt=\"\" />","comments_count":0,"marks_count":0,"likes":{"count":0,"user_likes":0,"can_like":0,"marks_pluses":0,"marks_minuses":0,"user_like_attr":null,"like_attr_ids":[]},"fame_actions_positive_count":0,"fame_actions_negative_count":0,"fame_actions":[],"url":"https://zerohedge.mirtesen.ru/blog/43630484634","tags":["orwell"],"date":1561950900,"canEdit":false,"foreignPollId":null,"attachments":[{"photo":{"id":20209679382,"photo_original":"https://mtdata.ru/u20/photo62A1/20209679382-0/original.jpg","width":980,"height":551}}],"group":{"display_name":"Zero Hedge","url":"https://zerohedge.mirtesen.ru","photo_original":null,"id":30179668738,"canViewBlogPostCreator":false,"showSubscribersAmount":true,"is_subscribed":false,"is_member":false,"is_owner":false,"is_staff":false,"created":1425661540867},"canonical_url":"http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/zerohedge/feed/~3/mBdqh0AU1-4/orwells-1984-no-longer-reads-fiction-its-reality-our-times","topic":"politics","title":"Orwell's 1984 No Longer Reads Like Fiction: It's The Reality Of Our Times","preview_text":"Authored by Robert Bridge, op-ed via RT.com, \n70 years ago, the British writer George Orwell captured the essence of technology in its ability to shape our destinies in his seminal work, 1984. The tragedy of our times is that we have failed to heed his warning. \n\n\x3c!--[if IE 9]>\x3c![endif]-->\x3c!--[if","post_type":"post","formattedDates":{"iso":"2019-07-01T03:15:00.000Z","ver1":"1 июля, 6:15","ver2":"01.07.2019 в 6:15","ver3":"1 июля, 6:15"},"images":[{"main":true,"url":"https://mtdata.ru/u20/photo62A1/20209679382-0/original.jpg","width":980,"height":551}],"videos":[],"shared_post":null,"mentionedPersons":null},{"id":43661350089,"from_id":334605940,"from":{"id":334605940,"display_name":"Marcus Campbell","url":"https://mirtesen.ru/people/334605940","photo_original":"https://mtdata.ru/u4/photo6F84/20958686078-0/original.jpeg","isAuthenticAccount":false,"sex":2},"owner_id":-30179668738,"text":"\x3cp>It has been a strange 24 hours.\x3c/p>\n\n\x3cp>On Monday, we \x3ca href=\"https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2019-03-11/facebook-bans-zero-hedge\" target=\"_blank\">first learned \x3c/a>that for the previous two days, Facebook had banned all Zero Hedge content across its various mediums, as it went against Facebook's \"Community Standards\" (which to the best of our knowledge, neither we not anyone else has any idea what they are), a decision which - as we \x3ca href=\"https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2019-03-11/facebook-bans-zero-hedge\" target=\"_blank\">noted yesterday \x3c/a>- surprised us for two reasons: not only do we not have an official Facebook account, but Facebook did not approach us even once with a warning or even notification.\x3c/p>\n\n\x3cp>While we were in the dark about what had triggered Facebook, or what was the company's motive, we were humbled and delighted not only with the media coverage this event received, but far more so with the outpouring of support we received from readers and across social media, where Zero Hedge had not been yet banned, like Twitter, where figures from various industries and across the political spectrum voiced support and came to our defense, with many condemning what we felt was an arbitrary decision.\x3c/p>\n\n\x3cp>Among those who spoke up were President Trump’s son Donald Trump Jr., Nigel Farage, Peter Thiel's liberal foil at Thiel Capital, Eric Weinstein, Infowars' Paul Joseph Watson and many others.\x3c/p>\n\n\x3cblockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-lang=\"en\">\n\x3cp dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\" xml:lang=\"en\">The censorship continues. How does ⁦\x3ca href=\"https://twitter.com/zerohedge?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\">@zerohedge\x3c/a>⁩’s content not “meet community standards?” FB doesn’t agree with them and they hit the platform’s obvious flaws at times. That’s it and it’s disgusting!\x3cbr />\x3cbr />\nFacebook Bans Zero Hedge | Zero Hedge \x3ca href=\"https://t.co/n6YsFhvFI5\" target=\"_blank\">https://t.co/n6YsFhvFI5\x3c/a>\x3c/p>\n— Donald Trump Jr. (@DonaldJTrumpJr) \x3ca href=\"https://twitter.com/DonaldJTrumpJr/status/1105440034897960961?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\">March 12, 2019\x3c/a>\n\x3c/blockquote>\n\x3cscript async=\"\" src=\"https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\">\x3c/script>\x3cblockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-lang=\"en\">\n\x3cp dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\" xml:lang=\"en\">Get ready for new & improved 2020 US elections. This time, you will be able to share more TrustedNews from AuthoritativeSources w/o having your user experience degraded by spam, conspiracy theories, or harmful thoughts.\x3cbr />\x3cbr />\nIf you miss heterodoxy, try this: \x3ca href=\"https://t.co/NIQsGrsHrP\" target=\"_blank\">https://t.co/NIQsGrsHrP\x3c/a> \x3ca href=\"https://t.co/Efp5IKQN2q\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com/Efp5IKQN2q\x3c/a>\x3c/p>\n— Eric Weinstein (@EricRWeinstein) \x3ca href=\"https://twitter.com/EricRWeinstein/status/1105291684261191681?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\">March 12, 2019\x3c/a>\n\x3c/blockquote>\n\x3cscript async=\"\" src=\"https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\">\x3c/script>\x3cblockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-lang=\"en\">\n\x3cp dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\" xml:lang=\"en\">This is a total disgrace. \x3ca href=\"https://twitter.com/hashtag/StopTheBias?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\">#StopTheBias\x3c/a> \x3ca href=\"https://t.co/XAWRymJeQ2\" target=\"_blank\">https://t.co/XAWRymJeQ2\x3c/a>\x3c/p>\n— Nigel Farage (@Nigel_Farage) \x3ca href=\"https://twitter.com/Nigel_Farage/status/1105248816792551424?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\">March 11, 2019\x3c/a>\n\x3c/blockquote>\n\x3cscript async=\"\" src=\"https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\">\x3c/script>\x3cblockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-lang=\"en\">\n\x3cp dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\" xml:lang=\"en\">Facebook has outright banned all posting of Zero Hedge links, one of the biggest non-corporate owned news websites on the Internet (and a frequent critic of Facebook's power). \x3ca href=\"https://t.co/oMX8duQXnB\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com/oMX8duQXnB\x3c/a>\x3c/p>\n— Paul Joseph Watson (@PrisonPlanet) \x3ca href=\"https://twitter.com/PrisonPlanet/status/1105247474971758592?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\">March 11, 2019\x3c/a>\n\x3c/blockquote>\n\x3cscript async=\"\" src=\"https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\">\x3c/script>\x3cblockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-lang=\"en\">\n\x3cp dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\" xml:lang=\"en\">Facebook is censoring political content from alternative news websites. This megacorporation — which has a revolving door with the US government — has already banned and suspended other news sites and journalists.\x3cbr />\x3cbr />\nThis is a huge threat to civil liberties.\x3ca href=\"https://t.co/pCjQtMD9ZS\" target=\"_blank\">https://t.co/pCjQtMD9ZS\x3c/a>\x3c/p>\n— Ben Norton (@BenjaminNorton) \x3ca href=\"https://twitter.com/BenjaminNorton/status/1105479736019615746?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\">March 12, 2019\x3c/a>\n\x3c/blockquote>\n\n\x3cblockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-partner=\"tweetdeck\">\n\x3cp dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\" xml:lang=\"en\">This is the Best news and publicity \x3ca href=\"https://twitter.com/zerohedge?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\">@zerohedge\x3c/a> can get... Well done, proud to know you guys.. Grind even harder its working. Facebook is so 1973 ish\x3c/p>\n— Marc Cohodes (@AlderLaneeggs) \x3ca href=\"https://twitter.com/AlderLaneeggs/status/1105291241527205888?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\">March 12, 2019\x3c/a>\n\x3c/blockquote>\n\x3cscript async=\"\" src=\"https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\">\x3c/script>\x3cscript async=\"\" src=\"https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\">\x3c/script>\x3cblockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-partner=\"tweetdeck\">\n\x3cp dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\" xml:lang=\"en\">Facebook has blocked \x3ca href=\"https://twitter.com/zerohedge?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\">@zerohedge\x3c/a>. I went and checked. It is true. Facebook is a bunch of Orwellian-Nazi types. I would get off that platform ASAP. Zuckerberg: You can rot in hell. They are saving a place for you.\x3ca href=\"https://t.co/eIDzZEpuMR\" target=\"_blank\">https://t.co/eIDzZEpuMR\x3c/a>\x3c/p>\n— Dave Collum (@DavidBCollum) \x3ca href=\"https://twitter.com/DavidBCollum/status/1105265460352819200?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\">March 12, 2019\x3c/a>\n\x3c/blockquote>\n\x3cscript async=\"\" src=\"https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\">\x3c/script>\x3cblockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-partner=\"tweetdeck\">\n\x3cp dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\" xml:lang=\"en\">Wait... what?! If there was ANY doubt, THIS is ridiculous. \x3ca href=\"https://twitter.com/hashtag/Facebook?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\">#Facebook\x3c/a> bans \x3ca href=\"https://twitter.com/zerohedge?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\">@zerohedge\x3c/a> Cue \x3ca href=\"https://twitter.com/hashtag/Orwell?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\">#Orwell\x3c/a> “If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear...” \x3ca href=\"https://t.co/EUEljfHpLM\" target=\"_blank\">https://t.co/EUEljfHpLM\x3c/a> \x3ca href=\"https://twitter.com/hashtag/zerohedge?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\">#zerohedge\x3c/a>\x3c/p>\n— Nancy Mace (@NancyMace) \x3ca href=\"https://twitter.com/NancyMace/status/1105610772196003841?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\">March 12, 2019\x3c/a>\n\x3c/blockquote>\n\x3cscript async=\"\" src=\"https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\">\x3c/script>\x3cp>To them, and to everyone else who reached out - either to us or to Facebook, or \"said something\" in private or on the Interweb - we offer our sincerest gratitude.\x3c/p>\n\n\x3cp>And then on Tuesday morning, everything had suddenly returned to normal, and whether due to the unexpectedly widespread support we received, or because Facebook had made a sincere error, the ban was reversed.\x3c/p>\n\n\x3cp>While Facebook has yet to contact us directly, they did comment with a \x3ca href=\"https://www.breitbart.com/tech/2019/03/12/facebook-temporarily-blocks-users-from-posting-zero-hedge-articles/\" target=\"_blank\">Facebook spokesman saying \x3c/a>that \x3cstrong>\"This was a mistake with our automation to detect spam and we worked to fix it yesterday.\" \x3c/strong>He added that \"we use a combination of human review and automation to enforce our policies around spam and in this case, our automation incorrectly blocked this link. \x3cstrong>As soon as we identified the issue, we worked quickly to fix it.\x3c/strong>\"\x3c/p>\n\n\x3cp>We still have no insight into which article(s) Facebook decided was sufficiently \"spammy\" to block everyone's access to our content, or on what basis Facebook's \"automation and human review\" had made the decision to quarantine our small website from the rest of Facebook's 2.3 billion \x3ca href=\"https://s21.q4cdn.com/399680738/files/doc_financials/2018/Q4/Q4-2018-Earnings-Presentation.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">monthly users\x3c/a>.\x3c/p>\n\n\x3cp>But we are heartened by this development, not so much because it means a rebound in our traffic - as we \x3ca href=\"https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2019-03-11/facebook-bans-zero-hedge\" target=\"_blank\">observed yesterday\x3c/a>, we are lucky in that Facebook represents a tiny source of our inbound referral traffic - but because it means nothing changes: we can and will continue as before, with zero adjustments to our writing style, and we will certainly continue with our highly critical coverage of all things Facebook. And best of all: it will be read on Facebook, allowing users of the world's biggest media company to escape an informational echo chamber, and be presented with contrasting opinions, which even if wrong, will allow countless readers to make more informed opinions than if served with preapproved, uniform, and ideologically palatable content.\x3c/p>\n\n\x3cp>And since some may read this as a quasi-official press release, we leave the \"about us\" part to the money-losing media venture of billionaire Mike Bloomberg's business empire (funded since day one by the procyclical $25,000/year Bloomberg terminal business), which \x3ca href=\"https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-03-12/zero-hedge-says-facebook-banned-users-from-sharing-its-posts\" target=\"_blank\">yesterday \x3c/a>described out little adventure as follows: \"Since being founded in the depths of the financial crisis, Zero Hedge has built a dedicated following by serving up a mix of hardcore financial analysis and populist political commentary. 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