Facebook, Stop Suppressing RefuseFascism & other progressive pages
Mark Zuckerberg, owner, Facebook.com
Last week Facebook suddenly unpublished the page of Refuse Fascism ATL (the Atlanta chapter of RefuseFascism.org) claiming that the page “goes against our community standards” without offering any explanation of the alleged violation or an opportunity to appeal the decision.
Facebook’s removal of Refuse Fascism ATL’s page is part of a wave of blatant suppression targeting left-wing organizations. For years, Facebook allowed QAnon conspiracists, militias, and fascists openly committed to genocidal white supremacy to organize openly on their platform. It took an attempted coup, unleashed by Trump on January 6, for Facebook to enforce its own terms of service for Trump. Now, under the guise of combating “extremism,” Facebook is attempting to silence the voices of those who have been organizing to stop the fascist forces it has allowed to proliferate. Mark Zuckerberg’s recent announcement that Facebook is working to become depoliticized represents more “both sides-ism” that equates fascist with anti-fascist organizing!
We call on everyone to oppose Facebook’s move to suppress Refuse Fascism and other progressive and left-wing organizations.
1. Send statements demanding an immediate reversal of Facebook’s actions to info@support.facebook.com and zuckerberg@fb.com. Send copies of your letters to atlanta@refusefascism.org.
2. Share this statement as widely as possible with your friends and co-workers and on social media, including Facebook, Twitter and other platforms.
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Is telling the truth—with documentation and compelling evidence—about the fascist nature of the Trump/Pence regime (and the significant fascist movement they represented) against “community standards”? Is advocating for massive non-violent protest against a fascist regime’s step by step dismantling of democracy against “community standards”?
Is uniting people from different perspectives into a movement to examine how that regime’s different attacks—on the rule of law, on the rights of the people, on the truth itself—are not only individual outrages but are the “threads” that make up the fabric of fascism—and is raising the alarm about this and calling for people to stand up against it in peaceful, sustained and determined protest against “community standards”?
Everything Refuse Fascism ATL promoted on Facebook and elsewhere has been 1.) True—we have not lied, spread rumors or presented a false picture of reality, and 2.) in the interests of humanity. We demand that the Refuse Fascism ATL page be restored immediately.