Critics Say Facebook is Erasing Pieces of History by Deleting Pages About the War in Syria

By: Mathew Ingram | GigaOM

As we discussed in a recent post on “viral” content, Facebook’s power and reach as a media platform has eclipsed even that of Google, which can be both good and bad depending on what kind of content you produce and whether Facebook approves of it or not. But that power becomes even more insidious when the network starts to delete important pieces of history, which it appears to be doing with pages related to dissident activity in Syria.