A pro-life group is crying foul after Facebook removed three of its paid campaign ads from the popular social media platform.
On Thursday, Facebook removed a pro-life ad supporting Tennessee Republican Senate candidate Marsha Blackburn, the Susan B. Anthony List said in a statement.
She added, "SBA List has faced repeated censorship over the last few weeks and now our ad supporting Marsha Blackburn has been disapproved, even after more than 90,000 had viewed it. Facebook must immediately stop its censorship of pro-life speech. All the information presented in our ads has been factual, if surprising, to those unwilling to face the reality of pro-abortion extremism. Facebook is censoring the truth and political free speech."
Blackburn's campaign announcement video was indeed blocked in October 2017 by Twitter, which hid behind the farcical argument that her pro-life rhetoric was " inflammatory" and that it could "Evoke a strong negative reaction." Last week, SBA List was told something very similar after Facebook removed two additional ads from its platform.
After the ads were removed by Facebook, Dannenfelser urged the company last week to "Stop its shameful censorship of the pro-life movement."
"Facebook is censoring the truth and political free speech. ... The clock is ticking to Election Day, and Facebook is stifling our ability to get our message out about politicians who support brutal late-term abortions."
If the disappearance of the pro-Blackburn ad in Tennessee was the only example of such a thing happening to the national pro-life group, one could argue Facebook merely acted in error.
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/facebook-censoring-pro-life-political-ads-again
On Thursday, Facebook removed a pro-life ad supporting Tennessee Republican Senate candidate Marsha Blackburn, the Susan B. Anthony List said in a statement.
She added, "SBA List has faced repeated censorship over the last few weeks and now our ad supporting Marsha Blackburn has been disapproved, even after more than 90,000 had viewed it. Facebook must immediately stop its censorship of pro-life speech. All the information presented in our ads has been factual, if surprising, to those unwilling to face the reality of pro-abortion extremism. Facebook is censoring the truth and political free speech."
Blackburn's campaign announcement video was indeed blocked in October 2017 by Twitter, which hid behind the farcical argument that her pro-life rhetoric was " inflammatory" and that it could "Evoke a strong negative reaction." Last week, SBA List was told something very similar after Facebook removed two additional ads from its platform.
After the ads were removed by Facebook, Dannenfelser urged the company last week to "Stop its shameful censorship of the pro-life movement."
"Facebook is censoring the truth and political free speech. ... The clock is ticking to Election Day, and Facebook is stifling our ability to get our message out about politicians who support brutal late-term abortions."
If the disappearance of the pro-Blackburn ad in Tennessee was the only example of such a thing happening to the national pro-life group, one could argue Facebook merely acted in error.
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/facebook-censoring-pro-life-political-ads-again
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