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Facebook BANS pro-Trump '#Walkaway' group, as social media turns up censorship crackdownSee also: The purge begins: Trump permanently banned from Twitter, along with Flynn, Powell and others - Google/Apple give Parler ultimatum to comply
8 Jan, 2021 19:42
A day after banning President Trump indefinitely and forbidding any content praising the riot in the US Capitol, Facebook has removed the popular pro-Trump '#Walkaway' page and banned its founder, Brandon Straka.
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According to Straka, the group's page was wiped from Facebook on Friday. In an email shared on Twitter by Straka, the tech titan said the movement's page violated its terms of use, and though the precise reason for the ban wasn't mentioned, the email listed "hateful, threatening, or obscene" content as potential factors.
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Facebook has also banned a host of what it calls "militarized social movements" from its platform, including militias like the 'Oath Keepers', conspiracy pages linked to the 'QAnon' movement, and pro-Trump groups like the 'Proud Boys'. The Facebook team promised that they would "take additional measures if necessary to keep people safe."
Conservatives and Trump supporters raged at the latest ban on Friday. Podcaster Tim Pool called the removal of Straka's page the beginning of a "great purge" - a mass rollout of online censorship that the Right has warned about since Trump's election in 2016.
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