Facebook accused of banning conservative activist from advertising anti-socialism video

Facebook | April 18, 2019

Facebook has come under fire from a conservative activist who accused the social network of censoring video footage of his speech slamming socialism. Justin Haskins, executive editor of The Heartland Institute think tank, took aim at Facebook in an op-ed published Wednesday for allegedly preventing him from purchasing an advertisement featuring his anti-socialism speech. Mr. Haskins wrote that he successfully shared a video of the speech in February to a Facebook page titled Stopping Socialism, but subsequently encountered problems when he tried to pay to boost the post. “The ad ran without any trouble,” Mr. Haskins wrote for Fox News. “But later that week, my Facebook advertising account was suddenly and without explanation permanently disabled, something that has never occurred before.

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