Facebook's pre-midterm purge included pages and accounts that Facebook described as "Ad farms" that used the platform to earn money and "To mislead others about who they are, and what they are doing," rather than engage in "Legitimate political debate."
Facebook claims the purged pages fell on both sides of the political spectrum, and originally declined to say if there were more pages on the right or the left, but a Facebook spokesperson later told Axios that "The takedowns may have impacted more right-leaning hyper-partisan Pages."
Brian Kolfage, who ran Right Wing News' Facebook page, sees the company's purge of political sites as part of a "War on conservatives and a war on Trump."
The Times related that since the engineer's post went up more than 100 Facebook employees had joined him to form an online group called 'FB'ers for Political Diversity,' based on two people within the company who had seen the page, but were not authorized to talk to the media.
"If Facebook is deleting American-run political pages in run up to election, Facebook should release full list of pages affected, regardless if these pages were violating terms of service or not. Without that list we have no way to verify their claims," he tweeted.
If Facebook is deleting American run political pages in run up to election, Facebook should release full list of pages affected, regardless if these pages were violating terms of service or not.
While there may be valid justification for all of Facebook's actions, Facebook has not responded to The Western Journal's request for comment or provided to any known media outlet a full list of suspended pages or any evidence that any of the pages had in fact violated any of the rules Facebook claims were the basis for their purge.
https://www.westernjournal.com/facebook-silences-political-speech/
Facebook claims the purged pages fell on both sides of the political spectrum, and originally declined to say if there were more pages on the right or the left, but a Facebook spokesperson later told Axios that "The takedowns may have impacted more right-leaning hyper-partisan Pages."
Brian Kolfage, who ran Right Wing News' Facebook page, sees the company's purge of political sites as part of a "War on conservatives and a war on Trump."
The Times related that since the engineer's post went up more than 100 Facebook employees had joined him to form an online group called 'FB'ers for Political Diversity,' based on two people within the company who had seen the page, but were not authorized to talk to the media.
"If Facebook is deleting American-run political pages in run up to election, Facebook should release full list of pages affected, regardless if these pages were violating terms of service or not. Without that list we have no way to verify their claims," he tweeted.
If Facebook is deleting American run political pages in run up to election, Facebook should release full list of pages affected, regardless if these pages were violating terms of service or not.
While there may be valid justification for all of Facebook's actions, Facebook has not responded to The Western Journal's request for comment or provided to any known media outlet a full list of suspended pages or any evidence that any of the pages had in fact violated any of the rules Facebook claims were the basis for their purge.
https://www.westernjournal.com/facebook-silences-political-speech/
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