It’s both short-sighted and foolish to attempt to build your business on the mainstream social platforms. Because no matter who you are, no matter how innocuous you believe yourself to be, sooner or later you’re going to find yourself in violation of the Narrative and you will be deplatformed.
On Tuesday, July 1, 2025, African Stream published its final video, a defiant farewell message. With that, the once-thriving pan-African media outlet confirmed it was shutting down for good. Not because it broke the law. Not because it spread disinformation or incited violence. But because it told the wrong story, one that challenged U.S. power in Africa and resonated too deeply with Black audiences around the world. When Secretary of State Antony Blinken accused it of being a Kremlin front, Big Tech didn’t hesitate, and within hours, the platform was erased from nearly every major social media site.
In September, U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken made the call and announced an all-out war against the organization, claiming, without evidence, that it was a Russian front group. “Russian state-funded media outlet RT secretly runs the online platform, African Stream, across a wide range of social media platforms,” he said, adding:
According to the outlet’s website, ‘African Stream is’ – and I quote ‘a pan-African digital media organization based exclusively on social media platforms, focused on giving a voice to all Africans, both at home and abroad.’ In reality, the only voice it gives is to Kremlin propagandists.”
Within hours, big social media platforms jumped into action. Google, YouTube, Facebook, Instagram, and TikTok all deleted African Stream’s accounts, while Twitter demonetized the organization.
Remember, all of these “Russia Russia Russia” and “Kremlin propagandist” accusations are not only nonsensical, they are complete fictions that the accusers 100-percent know to be false, because they made them up. But they suffice, because the big social media platforms are quite literally the modern successors of the three television networks of the 1950s and 1960s.
They are the primary medium by which the Narrative is propagated and maintained, now that no one but the Boomers are watching reading newspapers and watching network television.