| As UN
Guterres Bans
Press his
Officials
False Flag
Negative
Stories for
Removal a la
Fleming
by
Matthew Russell Lee, Patreon Book
Substack
UN GATE, May 27
–
On World Press
Freedom Day,
the United
Nations of
Antonio
Guterres and
Melissa
Fleming was
more
hypocritical
than
usual.
While UN
Global
Communications
chief
Fleming put
out a video
of Guterres
equating what
he (and she)
characterize
as
disinformation
as the threat
to press
freedom,
Guterres has banned
Inner City
Press from
entering the
UN since 2018,
when it exposed
the omission
of links to
bribery firm
CEFC China
Energy from
his financial
disclosure.
Jump forward
three weeks
and Fleming,
who has
refused to
answer a
polite pro
bono letter
from the Quinn
Emanuel law
firm seeking a
dialogue to
end her ban of
Inner City
Press, was
intoning, as echoed
by another
paid UN system
communications
staffer,
"We're
creating at
the UN a
central
capacity to
monitor and
…rapidly react
when mis- and
dis
information
and hate
speech
threaten not
just our
people, our
operations,
but also the
issues and
causes we're
working on,"
-Melissa
Fleming."
What is the
accountability
for this
"central
capacity"
that, without
explaining or
answering, has
the Press
roughed up and
banned?
Now
on May 27
we'll give an
example of UN
officials
gaming, or in
this case
trying to
case, the
system of
social media
platforms.
Inner City
Press received
notice from
Blogger than
two of its
articles were
being removed,
having been
"flagged."
Inner City
Press checked
it out - both
articles
involved UN
DGACM, and
Franz Bauman.
Neither
contained any
malware - as
provide once
Inner City
Press re-upped
them and was
informed,
restriction
removed. They
are now
(again) here
and here.
But
how can a
platform allow
a subject of
two
investigative
articles to
have them
removed, based
on false
flagging? This
is Melissa
Fleming's, and
ultimately
Guterres, UN
of censorship.
Law
firm Quinn
Emanuel, on a
pro bono
basis, wrote
to Fleming and
the UN
Correspondents
Association
(with state
media of China
on its board
of directors)
seeking a
dialogue to
reinstate
Inner City
Press.
There
has been no
answer, nor to
an appeal
to Guterres
head of
security
Gilles
Michaud.
Still,
ill-informed
media run the
Guterres video
without
commentary.
Disinformation,
indeed.
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