Ford Fischer
Facebook censors iconic image of 1970 Kent State shooting on its anniversary
The Pulitzer Prize winning image is covered over with a sensitive content warning.
YouTube suspends Ford Fischer for a week, deletes his footage of newsworthy protests, marches, and rallies
The tech giant is increasingly targeting on-the-ground footage from independent journalists.
YouTube continues to suppress creators to the benefit of giant corporations
Indie creators are treated more unfairly than big news corporations.
YouTube deletes Ford Fischer’s newsworthy footage of crowd reacting to Trump speech, calls it “spam”
More bias with how YouTube treats news agencies.
Facebook is silent on why it disabled journalist Ford Fischer’s account after Louisville protest coverage
Facebook didn’t tell Fischer the reason for the suspension.
Ford Fischer highlights YouTube’s unfair treatment of independent journalists
Journalists that don’t belong to major news networks are having a hard time on YouTube.
Facebook bans journalist Ford Fischer from posting links as he attempted to share YouTube censorship article
Facebook has been increasingly sanctioning its users for sharing links this year.
For YouTubers whose livelihoods are at stake due to a problem with their channel, their best chance of YouTube even bothering to acknowledge them is, for some reason, on Twitter
If you don’t have many Twitter followers, you’re probably out of luck.
Independent journalist Ford Fischer’s channel demonetized in YouTube adpocalypse
Fischer is one of the most notable victims of the adpocalypse because he has support from all sides of the political spectrum and his work features important historical and news footage.