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DetlefK

(16,622 posts)
Fri Apr 4, 2025, 01:38 AM Friday

Have you noticed Facebook is secretly banning anti-right-wing accounts?

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? (Original Post) DetlefK Friday OP
Social media writ large is dominated by the RW, radius777 Friday #1
SO true. It's why Republicans have taken over without any fear of negative publicity. live love laugh Friday #4
Richardson has an active account. Duncan Grant Friday #2
Her account is active, but SurfLiberal Friday #3
We need a facebook Bluesky C Moon Friday #5
Her account... Mike Nelson Friday #6
Shocked. Shocked, I tell you. Scrivener7 Friday #7
Disgracebook need to notice a massive number of users banning its app from their phones and computers!! InAbLuEsTaTe Friday #8
Her account was not "nuked" obamanut2012 Friday #9

radius777

(3,921 posts)
1. Social media writ large is dominated by the RW,
Fri Apr 4, 2025, 01:47 AM
Friday

which is a major problem for us. It's not just content, but even simple comments on many platforms such as Yahoo news, Google/Youtube that are critical of Trump or the RW get deleted and ratio'd (voted down) - because the RW/Russia trolls run rampant and downvote and report anything they don't like. That influences the algo's toward a RW bias. Since there's no real way it seems to get rid of RW trolls, it would seem the only solution may be to enlist or hire our own counter-troll army. At least that may help to even things out.

live love laugh

(15,120 posts)
4. SO true. It's why Republicans have taken over without any fear of negative publicity.
Fri Apr 4, 2025, 03:47 AM
Friday

Republicans know that social media—and the majority of all media—has their backs …. especially subscription “free” media. The limited crap Republicans allow on the newz is distorted when it reaches social media by suppression of views and by suppression of pro democracy voices especially Democrats’.

Mike Nelson

(10,532 posts)
6. Her account...
Fri Apr 4, 2025, 04:26 AM
Friday

... is working well. I am not "friends" with Heather and I do not "follow" her - BUT I do occasionally see her posts. I can tell she's not a fan of Crooked Donald. Apparently FB thinks we have things in common, which is why her posts are suggested by their Algorithm Robots!

Scrivener7

(55,137 posts)
7. Shocked. Shocked, I tell you.
Fri Apr 4, 2025, 06:41 AM
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Using sites run by Zuckerberg, Musk or Bezos is begging for abuse.

Also, if you use twitter, you're supporting a nazi. You shouldn't do that.

InAbLuEsTaTe

(25,052 posts)
8. Disgracebook need to notice a massive number of users banning its app from their phones and computers!!
Fri Apr 4, 2025, 06:56 AM
Friday
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