Facebook has blocked its users from sharing a New York Post article about the real estate purchases of Black Lives Matter (BLM) co-founder Patrisse Cullors.
The article mentioned that Cullors had purchased "four high-end homes for $3.2 million" in the United States. It also said that she was seeking real estate in the Bahamas. It contrasted the purchases with Cullors' self-identification as a Marxist as well as criticisms from others about the alleged lack of financial transparency from the national BLM organization.
When Newsweek reporters attempted to post a link to the Post's story, the action couldn't be completed. The following message also appeared: "Your post couldn't be shared, because this link goes against our Community Standards. If you think this doesn't go against our Community Standards let us know."
A Facebook spokesperson told Newsweek, "This content was removed for violating our privacy and personal information policy." The policy forbids articles that share details that could identify a person's financial and residential information, thus violating their privacy rights.
However, it was possible to post a link to the article on Facebook using the URL-shortening service, TinyURL. Links to a summary of the article published by Fox Business and an opinion column defending Cullors' right to own such property that ran in The Chicago Tribune were also not blocked.
https://nypost.com/2021/04/13/twitter-locks-out-jason-whitlock-over-post-criticizing-blm-report/
Twitter reportedly locked a black sports journalist out of his account after he criticized a Black Lives Matter co-founder for buying a ritzy home in a mostly white neighborhood.
Jason Whitlock says Twitter blocked him over a tweet pointing out the demographics of Topanga Canyon, the Los Angeles enclave where Black Lives Matter leader Patrisse Cullors recently snapped up a $1.4 million home, according to reports.
Whitlock showed fellow journalist Ryan Glasspiegel the Friday email he received from Twitter about the offending post, which said Topanga Canyon “has a black population of 1.4%.”
“She’s with her people!” Whitlock wrote of Cullors, adding a link to a story about her real estate purchase on the celebrity blog Dirt.com.
Twitter appears to have removed the tweet and replaced it with a message saying the post “violated the Twitter Rules.”
“BLM is one of Big Tech’s sacred cows,” Whitlock, a former ESPN columnist and Fox Sports commentator, told the Daily Mail. “I think Twitter has been looking for an excuse to de-platform me.”
Whitlock told the outlet that he lost his tweeting privileges “because I revealed personal information about someone” by sharing the Dirt.com link.
That’s despite the fact that the article did not include the address of Cullors’ Topanga mansion and that The Post and other outlets have reported on her expensive purchase.
A Twitter spokesperson told The Post that Whitlock’s tweet “violated the Twitter Rules on private information, and the account owner was required to delete the violative Tweet.”
In a YouTube interview released Monday, Whitlock said he decided not to heed Twitter’s demand.
“I’m going to play Nelson Mandela in Twitter jail,” he said.
“There’s so much hypocrisy here,” Whitlock said of Cullors, a self-described Marxist. “They want the state to own all the property, but she’s out buying property all across the country. She’s acting like a capitalist.”
Here's the controversial story:
https://nypost.com/2021/04/10/inside-blm-co-founder-patrisse-khan-cullors-real-estate-buying-binge/
Black Lives Matter co-founder Patrisse Khan-Cullors has gone on a real-estate buying binge in recent years, snagging four high-end homes for $3.2 million in the US alone, according to property records.Willy Sanjuan/AP
As protests broke out across the country in the name of Black Lives Matter, the group’s co-founder went on a real estate buying binge, snagging four high-end homes for $3.2 million in the US alone, according to property records.
Patrisse Khan-Cullors, 37, also eyed property in the Bahamas at an ultra-exclusive resort where Justin Timberlake and Tiger Woods both have homes, The Post has learned. Luxury apartments and townhouses at the beachfront Albany resort outside Nassau are priced between $5 million and $20 million, according to a local agent.
The self-described Marxist last month purchased a $1.4 million home on a secluded road a short drive from Malibu in Los Angeles, according to a report. The 2,370-square-foot property features “soaring ceilings, skylights and plenty of windows” with canyon views. The Topanga Canyon homestead, which includes two houses on a quarter-acre, is just one of three homes Khan-Cullors owns in the Los Angeles area, public records show.
Some fellow activists were taken aback by the real estate revelations.
Hawk Newsome, the head of Black Lives Matter Greater New York City, which is not affiliated with Khan-Cullors’ Black Lives Matter Global Network Foundation, called for “an independent investigation” to find out how the global network spends its money.
“If you go around calling yourself a socialist, you have to ask how much of her own personal money is going to charitable causes,” he said. “It’s really sad because it makes people doubt the validity of the movement and overlook the fact that it’s the people that carry this movement.”
Last year, Khan-Cullors and spouse Janaya Khan ventured to Georgia to acquire a fourth home — a “custom ranch” on 3.2 rural acres in Conyers featuring a private airplane hangar with a studio apartment above it, and the use of a 2,500-foot “paved/grass” community runway that can accommodate small airplanes.
The three-bedroom, two-bath house, about 30 minutes from Atlanta, has an indoor swimming pool and a separate “RV shop” that can accommodate the repair of a mobile home or small aircraft, according to the real estate listing.
The Peach State retreat was purchased in January 2020 for $415,000, two years after the publication of Khan-Cullors’ best-selling memoir, “When They Call You a Terrorist.”
In October, the activist signed “a multi-platform” deal with Warner Bros. Television Group to help produce content for “black voices who have been historically marginalized,” she said in a statement.
It is not known how much Khan-Cullors received in compensation in either deal.
Khan-Cullors began her buying spree in LA in 2016, a few years after the civil rights movement she started from a hashtag — #blacklivesmatter — with fellow activists Alicia Garza and Opal Tometi began to gain traction around the world.
That year, she bought a three-bedroom, 1.5-bathroom home in Inglewood for $510,000. It is now worth nearly $800,000. Khan-Cullors added her wife, the co-founder of Black Lives Matter in Canada, to the deed in a family trust last year. The couple married in 2016.
hell facebook is taking it lead from the Biden adm. Neiter one of those outfits what to admit even the barest of fact about NLM. Neither one seem to know they are self amitted commy terrorist organizations that specialize in shake downs for millions.
In a related matter Minn had riots for thee 5th straight nite. Rioters found with weapons, shields, found cutting safety fences, lobbing tear gas and flash bangs at police and guess what? NOT A SINGLE ARREST....AND WE WONDER WHY THIS CRAP GOES ON
Honest question... What sort of community standards block a story about someone buying houses? What is the objective here? Will stories about Trump buying properties also be off limits?
Hilarious parody
I think the story is very valid because it shows the hypocrisy for the leadership.
People with enormous influence, pushing ideologies and belief systems to others while living the total opposite ideologies in their personal lives.
Nobody expects our leaders to be Mother Theresa's but c'mon, when you are acting exactly like the ones you claim to be fighting against and getting rich off of selling your ideas, than its extremely suspicious on whether your motivation is sincere about the actual idea or is it in profiting from selling the idea.
Everyone has a right to prosper based on selling ideas in a capitalistic society but her idea is that capitalism is bad.
On other words........Capitalism is bad for everybody..........except for me.
At the very least, the appearance is really bad and if somebody is being a blatant fraud is one area of their lives, violating their own professed principles, why would we think they are honest elsewhere in their lives?
Facebook and Twitter have a legal right to block these stories and people but they are sending a message loud and clear "We are not politically neutral and we will use our influence to promote political ideologies that we favor"
Since they basically own the franchises in their markets and have tens of millions of users that don't care about this fact and many that LIKE IT, they can do this and pay no penalty in the free market, capitalism society.
If people decide this is what they don't want, they can stop using these social media but people still want this............which empowers them to be this way.
They would not do it if they thought it endangered their business.
Govt can't do a thing about it. It's just one additional element in the cultural revolution that is going to be very painful for conservatives to watch and accept as the new reality.
Some of it will be based on some fraudulent and bad principles but the people have spoken and the youngest generation is the most liberal and indoctrinated into this way of thinking.
Once people believe something, its almost impossible to change their minds even if you hit them with massive info showing they are wrong. This is a long time coming. The climate accord is very much a part of it........its all political and those changes will do nothing to change the climate/weather but they won the war.
The changes are coming. Trump was an aberration that actually caused the cultural revolution side to unite and accelerate their push because Biden was certainly NOT doing it.
Bernie Sanders is/was a force strong enough by himself to do it...........he stands for socialism but people were more concerned with beating Trump and wanted the candidate with the best chance to beat Trump.............Biden, not Sanders.
Now they have the control to impose the changes to continue the cultural revolution.....destroying old cultural heros, monuments, statutes and their principles.
In with the new, out with the old.
They will try to minimize stuff from the NY Post, Washington Times and Fox, while highlighting stuff from CNN, CNBC, NPR, NY Times, WOP.
The media and social media have already taken over peoples brains. Critical thinking is gone in most people. They just go to their favorite sources to find out what they should know because those sources tell them the news the way they like to hear it.
Captured brains
Started by metmike - April 10, 2021, 12:32 a.m.