More Political Censorship From Facebook…

Who’s shocked by this? Certainly not me.

According to that sourcelink, it appears Facebook is going out of its way to censor articles from conservative-leaning sites.

PJ Media has the scoop:

First, Facebook blocked Salena Zito, CNN contributor and author of the groundbreaking book “The Great Revolt: Inside the Populist Coalition Reshaping American Politics.” On Wednesday afternoon, Zito published a New York Post article explaining “why Trump’s supporters won’t care about Cohen and Manafort’s convictions.”

She noticed the post was removed and received a handful of messages from others, citing the same problem.

So this is interesting…@facebook took down my post of my reporting for the @nypost — I’ve received nine separate messages from readers telling me the same thing has happened to them. ‘sup @facebook ?https://t.co/dCwG9HQiJI

— SalenaZito (@SalenaZito) August 23, 2018

Per @facebook to one of several people who posted my @nypost story (including me) only to have it removed. I just attempted to re-post it, we shall see. pic.twitter.com/rob9eQsN99

— SalenaZito (@SalenaZito) August 23, 2018

Facebook never really gave her much of an explanation.

“They did put the article back up,” Salena Zito told PJ Media. “They never responded to any of my inquiries.” The author laid out the ways she contacted Facebook: “I first put out a polite tweet, then I direct messaged them, then I sent them a message through the Facebook page, and then I sent a message through support. No answer.”

“After trying to contact them through several different ways, the story miraculously reappeared,” Zito told the Washington Times’s Larry O’Connor.

A similar thing happened to Washington Examiner contributor Jenna Lynn Ellis.

Ellis published an article in The Washington Examiner explaining why “Democrats are overreacting to the Michael Cohen guilty plea.” She argued that plea bargains are a legal fiction, are not confessions, and are not evidence of crimes or verdicts of guilt. Therefore, the Cohen plea did not implicate Trump in financial crimes.

Facebook removed it, classifying it as “spam.” For real.

How does that violate community standards, you ask? Beats me!

“I reposted the screenshot and tagged Facebook and Mark Zuckerberg and the tags were immediately removed,” Ellis told PJ Media.

“Facebook has every right to suppress content as a private platform, but they have to do so openly in their terms and conditions, which should give every user clear notice of the agreement for use,” she continued. “If they want to be a liberally biased platform, do so openly so conservatives can determine if they want to use that platform.”

Exactly. Facebook can do this, fine. But the social media giant needs to stop pretending that it’s not. Make the “rules” CLEAR.

Ridiculous. Facebook blows chunks.

h/t PJ Media