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DetlefK

(16,624 posts) Fri Apr 4, 2025, 01:38 AM Apr 4

Have you noticed Facebook is secretly banning anti-right-wing accounts? [View all]

Historian Heather Cox Richardson criticizes the Trump-administration and regularly posts articles about it.
A few days ago Facebook nuked her account with no explanation.

"Deutschland_gegen_Nazis" is a german content-channel criticizing the right-wing, mainly the german right-wing party AfD.
They had 58,000 subscribers on Facebook. Yesterday Facebook nuked their account with no explanation.
EDIT: I incorrectly stated that "No AfD" got banned. Instead it was "No AfD" who reported on this.

Have you noticed more examples?

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Have you noticed Facebook is secretly banning anti-right-wing accounts? [View all] DetlefK Apr 4 OP

Social media writ large is dominated by the RW, radius777 Apr 4 #1

SO true. It's why Republicans have taken over without any fear of negative publicity. live love laugh Apr 4 #4

Richardson has an active account. Duncan Grant Apr 4 #2

Her account is active, but SurfLiberal Apr 4 #3

We need a facebook Bluesky C Moon Apr 4 #5

Her account... Mike Nelson Apr 4 #6

Shocked. Shocked, I tell you. Scrivener7 Apr 4 #7

Disgracebook need to notice a massive number of users banning its app from their phones and computers!! InAbLuEsTaTe Apr 4 #8

Her account was not "nuked" obamanut2012 Apr 4 #9