Facebook Censoring Conservative Media AND Conservative Users

"We removed the post below because it doesn't follow the Facebook Community Standards."

TruthRevolt continues to report on the suppression of conservative news outlets by Facebook but as the pressure mounts on the social media giant to prove it doesn't encourage bias, other abuses are coming to light showing that Facebook also targets its conservative users.

For MRC TV, Jeff Dunetz provides multiple examples of how Facebook not only goes after big conservative media outlets, but also smaller news sources and even individual pages that bend conservative.

It's easy to find fight videos, bullying, or bikini memes on Facebook, but don't dare say anything about Chick-fil-A, the NRA or Jesus Christ or you might get blocked. That happened to Fox News' Todd Starnes who wrote the following message on his page only for it to be removed for violating "community standards:"

"I'm about as politically incorrect as you can get. I'm wearing an NRA ball cap, eating a Chick-fil-A sandwich, reading a Paula Deen cookbook and sipping a 20-ounce sweet tea while sitting in my Cracker Barrel rocking chair with the Gaither Vocal Band singing 'Jesus Saves' on the stereo and a Gideon's Bible in my pocket. Yes sir, I'm politically incorrect and happy as a June bug."

When CJ Pearson was a 12-year-old conservative posting video's criticizing President Obama, he had his account locked for "suspicious activity."

When Cristi Merritt posted a video on her page that supported the North Carolina bathroom law -- for example, she wore a pirate outfit and asked, "Does this make me a pirate?" -- she was sent to the "Facebook PC Jail for seven days." They claimed there was nudity, which there wasn't. 

One of the most worrisome of all involved an "In Remembrance" post for a Marine killed in the Chattanooga terror attack by the Locked and Loaded page. A Marine Corps emblem covered in a black ribbon was apparently a violation, so Facebook took down the page for three days.

And there are others, as Dunetz details in his piece. But how do they decide what is a violation and what's not? He explains:

Part of the issue is that Facebook doesn't post specific rules. For example, this reporter has been sent outside the Facebook fence six or seven times. According to Facebook, it was due to my posting in too many conservative discussion groups too quickly. To be truthful, they might be correct. However, when I inquired about the rule (how many groups could be posted to in what time period) so I could avoid banishment the answer, the response I received was that Facebook policy doesn't allow them to share that information.

Based on the examination of the incidents above, as well as others, there seems to be little consistency of what content is considered not Kosher and what penalty is distributed as result. From this, it seems reasonable to infer that, when there's a complaint about a particular post or site, the ensuing investigation and ruling is entirely subjective to the particular employee making the ruling.

Facebook founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg is facing his company's blatant, but not admitted, biases outright by convening a meeting with conservative leaders. 

MRC's Brent Bozell is one of those meeting with Zuckerberg on Wednesday. He said:

“I look forward to sitting down with Mark Zuckerberg and Facebook because, as I’ll explain to them, no one knows more about liberal bias in the media than we do. We have been documenting and exposing it for almost 30 years. Facebook has a serious problem. Trust is everything and now conservatives don’t trust them. My hope is that today’s meeting will begin to put concerns to rest.”

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