Facebook Wiped A Conservative Wisconsin News Page After Wrongfully Censoring It For Months‘Every American should be deeply concerned by the fact that a few unaccountable big tech companies are controlling the free flow of information.’BY: JORDAN BOYD
APRIL 22, 2022
Facebook obliterated an award-winning conservative Wisconsin news page and cut off thousands of its followers without warning this week after wrongfully censoring it for months.
The Silicon Valley giant censored Wisconsin Right Now after the popular news site posted a story from The Australian to its Facebook feed that compared a picture of the infamous “Falling Man” from 9/11 to the horrific footage of Afghans falling from planes following President Joe Biden’s disastrous U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan.
Facebook quickly hid the post and slapped it with a community standards violation for “content related to suicide or self-injury.”
WRN appealed the violation, noting that the article did not advocate for self-harm, and Facebook reversed its decision but still unpublished WRN’s page.
A message from Facebook claimed that WRN “violates Facebook Pages terms” but did not specify why. The Big Tech company claimed that WRN could appeal if the unpublishing seemed to be a mistake but the link given by Facebook’s support team is broken.
Facebook did not respond to a request for comment.
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Source:
https://thefederalist.com/2022/04/22/facebook-wiped-a-conservative-wisconsin-news-page-after-wrongfully-censoring-it-for-months/
