Challenge any SWJ reader or commenter to state "all US social media companies" are fully and completely under control of Americans.....

Twitter suspends Al-Jazeera Arabic amid Qatar dispute. Among its top investors is Saudi Prince Alwaleed bin Talal.
http://www.nydailynews.com/newswires...662?cid=bitly#

BTW...Russian trolling in Twitter over eastern Ukraine, Syria and now with Trump never seems to be under control by Twitter Support....spamming of accounts by automated Russian botnets is rampart inside Twitter and Twitter when asked by Russian trolls to block specific twitter accounts complies....

WHY is that????

The second largest investor into Twitter is a Russian oligarch to the tune of 800M USDs.....