• ReadWriteWeb, Tuesday, December 7, 2010 11:23 AM

Likely making some new enemies in high places, Facebook on Monday said it would not block WikiLeaks from publishing updates on its platform. "The WikiLeaks Facebook Page does not violate our content standards nor have we encountered any material posted on the page that violates our policies," Andrew Noyes, Facebook's D.C. based Manager of Public Policy Communications, said in a statement to ReadWriteWeb. Under pressure from US government officials, top tech companies like Amazon and Paypal have ceased supporting the rogue Web site.

In particular, Senator Joe Lieberman has explicitly asked all US corporations to stop doing business with WikiLeaks. In a statement, Twitter said it will not be censoring Wikileaks from its "trending topics" section, but when we asked by ReadWriteWeb about whether it will permit the Wikileaks account to remain online, Twitter's Matt Graves said: "We've got no additional comment beyond the statement." Of course, "Every company online is likely considering how to relate to Wikileaks," ReadWriteWeb adds. "Google, for example, appears to have indexed almost 1500 pages of the site, while Bing appears to have indexed only 10 pages of Wikileaks.ch."

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