OPINION (FW) – Just one day after a group of Republican senators sent a letter to Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg regarding his site’s “censorship” of a major pro-life group’s content, the Silicon Valley-based company has reversed its flagging efforts. In late August, Facebook flagged two videos posted by Live Action in which founder and president Lila Rose argued abortion is “never medically necessary.” Citing transparently biased “fact-checkers” with the left-leaning Health Feedback, Facebook flagged the videos featuring Rose as “false news.”
It is worth noting that one of those supposed “fact-checkers,” Jennifer Gunter, has openly bashed Live Action on social media for its pro-life bonafides. Following the censorship, Sens. Josh Hawley (R-Mo.), Ted Cruz (R-Texas), Kevin Cramer (R-N.D.), and Mike Braun (R-Ind.) sent a letter to Zuckerberg, rebuking the company’s “pattern of censorship” and called for an external audit of its policies. On Thursday, according to Rose, Facebook removed its page violations from the Live-Action account but offered no apology to the thousands of page fans who were notified when Facebook first flagged the content and threatened future penalizations following an “investigation” into the matter. READ MORE
