Anarchist Activists against Facebook for crucial reporting on the COVID-19 crisis subscribe to the Mother Jones Daily newsletter. Previous month, Facebook finally did an announcement that it has been teasing for weeks now. However, it will begin taking more aggressive measures targeting QAnon and US-based militia, the company says. By banning some accounts and pages from its site these two groups have increasingly present domestic terror threats. Furthermore, Anarchist Activists against Facebook and “support violent acts amidst protests.”
Kelly C. Wright Facebook ban :
About a week after the ban was announce according to extremism experts and activists; a friend called Kelly C. Wright to let her know that her account had disappeared. It has been unclear and unjustified by the Facebook. As with the exception of the removal of a couple of comments. Wright says Facebook never took action on her account before or given her a warning about breaking their rules. She thinks that she serves as an administrator of the “Leftists for Self Defense and Firearm Freedom” Facebook page. So this can be the reason behind the ban.
“I had read your story earlier in the day, so I whipped out my phone and saw that I had been logged off. And then I popped Facebook up onto my laptop to check, and my account had been banned,” she states over the phone regarding Anarchist Activists against Facebook.
“We didn’t ever post anything that even supported revolutionary violence or anything like that,” says Jason Lee. “The cover picture for the page was Black Panthers at the California statehouse. It wasn’t anything that advocated for violence.”.
When the new policy announce, the company says it took down 980 groups and 520 pages related to militias and antifascists. Moreover, Facebook not just ban Leftists for Self Defense and Firearm Freedom. While the other pages ban, two large news sources too gets down. It’s Going Down, an anarchist platform that helps track far-right extremism and Crimethinc, a decentralized anarchist collective that publish antifascist articles.
It is impossible to look at their incorporation in the announcement . While a Facebook spokesperson disagree that antifascists includes in August’s prominent moderation action in an attempt to gratify the right. “Facebook is not being thoughtful or taking expertise on this issue,” Squire says. “They’re just figuring it out as they going along.”