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...before this when content was removed from Facebook users got a notice saying it had been flagged as inappropriate or that it somehow violated terms of service, indicating that the takedown came from another user’s report. Location-based blocking of videos and content for political reasons has usually come from the government via DNS-based blocking or similar practices, never from social media companies themselves.
Marianne Diaz Hernandez
Onlinecensorship.org launches second report, "Censorship in Context" (PDF)
Nov 16 2016
Censorship in Context: Insights from Crowdsourced Data on Social Media Censorship
Onlinecensorship.org launches first report (PDF)
Mar 31 2016
Unfriending Censorship: Insights from four months of crowdsourced data on social media censorship