Instagram Shadow Bans Spragga Benz, Censors Buju Banton Fi Anti-Vaxxer Post
Spragga Benz and Buju Banton, two of dancehall’s staunchest critics a di Jamaica’s containment measures and global vaccination efforts, have fallen under di Instagram’s censorship radar.
Pon Monday, Spragga Benz pointed out dat him was been shadow-banned or secretly censored by Instagram, weh mek him page invisible to non-followas and rendering him untaggable by adda pages. Spragga, who has 223,000 followers, shared a screenshot of one follower attempting in vain, to tag him during Buju Banton’s ‘In Di Pen’ on Independence Day Live feed as evidence dat di social media platform did deh pon him case.
“A fan wrote: ‘I tried to mention you under Buju Banton’s live and they would not allow it. A few others have tried to but they were only able to mention your clothing line. But thank you so much for using your platform to try bring in some of the lost sheep. Respect from the Bahamas,” Spragga wrote.
Spragga Benz IG Post
“@instagram yu cant stop Jah mission,” he later added under the same post.
Hours later, pon Tuesday morning, one a Buju Banton’s post (image below) bearing di logos of di World Health Organisation, di Johns Hopkins University and di World Economic Forum was flagged as false by Instagram.
Di post weh di Til Shiloh artist did captioned “IN PLANE SIGHT”, did get ridiculed by some a him 1.3 million followas, but endorsed by Spragga who did said: “Omega at the end huh.. dem a play god games but dem anuh god #AlphaAndOmega”.
After getting wind dat de post was flagged as false, Buju again posted sarcastically: “Why wouldn’t it be fake johns Hopkins uni info is fake? Or we catching up too quick?”
Nuff a him fans dem support him and hail him up fi “revealing the truth” to di people, but you did still have one and two jingbangs still a mek noise and a jeered di Penthouse label superstar and accused him of being a silly, gullible man. – No sah mi nah laugh –
“😂😂 this is literally nothing but a table and logos that ANYBODY can make in Microsoft word like???😭😭😂😂😂😂😂😭😭😭😭,” an amused tatipalooza wrote.
“Dude can’t even spell plain right and people gonna listen to him,” leroythemasochist jeered. [JUS MUSE: If a di spelling alone dis yah one yah cudda see and all a di adda essence float pass…yuh know a one more unda a different kinda spelling dis enuh…to rhatid…cage mind act different when it see free mind doh eeh…but any any way…continue read.]
Buju’s post appears to be an edited version of di list of COVID-19 variants announced by the World Health Organisation, using a new naming system via the Greek alphabet, to make it easier for non-scientists to keep track of them.
Buju Banton IG Post
Buju Banton IG Post Flagged “False” by Instagram
Pon June 1, National Geographic inna one article titled How virus variants get their confusing names—and wah mek it a change sought fi explain why di World Health Organization had “assigned letters of di Greek alphabet to each of di major variants dat are driving surges around di world”.
According to di National Geographic, di variant first documented inna di United Kingdom, weh did name “B.1.1.7” by scientists, would “now also be known simply as Alpha, while di variant dat Abdool Karim named in South Africa a guh call Beta and so on”.
In March dis year, Spragga did claimed dat “bigger heads” plotting against him and Buju Banton fi dem stance weh dem a tek ‘gainst vaccination, afta Instagram start flagging him post dem fi ‘promoting falsehoods’.
Spragga and Buju deh pon di forefront of dem weh a bun “fya” pon di Government of Jamaica’s attempts fi inoculate at least 60 percent of di island’s population against COVID-19. Di two, pon a regular, mek posts weh a argue dat di pandemic did planned fi implement, among adda tings, a “New World Order”.
Pon March 10, Spragga and several a him IG followers get inna argument afta him complain dat one a him anti-vaccination posts did get flag fi having “partly false information”, noting dat “Freedom of speech is my right so if it is not recognized on this medium well… do what you have to”.
At di time, di Count Tree artist was taken to task by di followas dem who tell him fi, among adda tings, fi refrain from promoting conspiracies. Addas tell him dat while him was entitled to freedom of speech, Instagram have a right fi point out dat him post have untruths and him should eida deal wid it or delete him account. [JUS MUSE: Wat a sinting eeh!]
Source: dancehallmag.com | Claudia Gardner
