By: Renee Nal | New Zeal
The pro-Trump comedy duo Diamond and Silk experienced censorship on Facebook. Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg acknowledged the censorship, and referred to it during his testimony on Capitol Hill this past week as an “enforcement error.”
In an update to supporters, the pair tweeted a letter referencing Facebook employee Neil Potts, who, along with Facebook Chief Operating Officer (COO) Sheryl Sandberg met with leftist activists Deray Mckesson, Blair Imani, Brittany Packnett, Sam White, Samuel Sinyangwe and others to discuss “safety, activism, Russia, & a host of ideas about moving forward” in October last year.
Diamond and Silk were censored on Facebook after being labeled “unsafe.” After being grilled about the censorship by Rep. Joe Barton of Texas, the Facebook CEO conceded that it was an “enforcement error.”
‘Congressman, in that specific case,’ replied Zuckerberg; ‘our team made an enforcement error. And we have already gotten in touch with them to reverse it.’
It is highly unlikely that this repeated injustice to conservatives would have ever been exposed if not for the recent congressional hearing on Facebook privacy featuring CEO Mark Zuckerberg, where several Senators – mainly Senator Ted Cruz – pointedly interrogated the Facebook CEO about political bias on the platform. Diamond and Silk are one example of many conservatives whose pages have been deemed to be incompliant with the vague and inconsistent “Facebook Community Standards.”
Watch Senator Cruz at the 1:46:12 minute mark:
Before the hearing, Diamond and Silk posted the following after a long battle with the social media giant, as reported at the Daily Wire:
Here is the reply from Facebook. Thu, Apr 5, 2018 at 3:40 PM: “The Policy team has came to the conclusion that your content and your brand has been determined unsafe to the community.” Yep, this was FB conclusion after 6 Months, 29 days, 5 hrs, 40 minutes and 43 seconds. Oh and guess what else Facebook said: “This decision is final and it is not appeal-able in any way.” (Note: This is the exact wording that FB emailed to us.)
Here is their announcement on Twitter (see thread):
.@DiamondandSilk have been corresponding since September 7, 2017, with @facebook (owned by Mark Zuckerberg), about their bias censorship and discrimination against D&S brand page. Finally after several emails, chats, phone calls, appeals, beating around the bush, lies, and……
— Diamond and Silk® (@DiamondandSilk) April 7, 2018
On Friday, Diamond and Silk posted an update on Twitter from Neil Potts of Facebook. According to his LinkedIn profile, Potts is a “Public Policy Manager at Facebook.”
Update: After being contacted by Facebook via twitter on 4-12-18, we’ve contacted Facebook this morning (4-13-18) and we’ve just received this email back. pic.twitter.com/G235aNEEmM
— Diamond and Silk® (@DiamondandSilk) April 13, 2018
A quick Twitter search showed Neil Potts, referenced in Facebook’s letter to Diamond and Silk, at a meeting with highly partisan activists including Deray on October 13 2017.
Today we met w/ Sheryl Sandberg & other Facebook leaders re: safety, activism, Russia, & a host of ideas about moving forward. pic.twitter.com/oKsLXDovLi
— deray (@deray) October 13, 2017
Here are some of the people at the meeting with Neil Potts, who is working with Diamond and Silk:
And interestingly, here he is again, conducting a counter-terrorism presentation at the Germany-based “George C. Marshall European Center for Security Studies.”
Thank you @facebook ‘s Neil Potts for your presentation on mission, polices at our #counterterrorism course today https://t.co/Q7BQFgoqvj pic.twitter.com/bnXyLJWlcw
— Geo. C Marshall Ctr (@Marshall_Center) July 21, 2017
It should be noted that Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg officially endorsed Hillary Clinton for president in 2016 and was revealed by emails posted by Wikileaks to have shared research with the Clinton campaign.
This is worth repeating. Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg, whose net worth is 1.54 billion USD, shared “research” with Hillary Clinton’s cronies. While it is unclear whether Sandberg gained that “research” from Facebook, it would not be a stretch to make such an assumption.
The meeting with left wing activists was one of several referenced in Politico last year, including one with the Congressional Black Caucus, who “confronted” Sheryl Sandberg over “the lack of diversity on the Facebook board and the Russian bought ads which positioned Black Live Matter as a divisive wedge:”
“Seeking to address concerns over Russian-linked ads that ran on Facebook during the 2016 election, COO Sheryl Sandberg met this week in Washington with leaders from Latino, Muslim-American and African-American rights groups, an unprecedented outreach for the company…Facebook declined to say which African-American and Muslim groups met with Sandberg…”
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