This evening, Facebook suspended my Facebook account and the accounts of several people associated with Cybersecurity for Democracy, our team at NYU. This has the effect of cutting off our access to Facebook's Ad Library data, as well as Crowdtangle. 1/4
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Yes. The same happened to me. I am a professor and scheduled a LIVe to discuss the growth of white supremacist groups. They shut down my biz account, my personal account & my meditation account. I asked them review. 4,5,6 times, to no avail. This is wrong. For so many reasons,
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In what way can we build an effective opposition to this? Does anyone know?

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#11 failure to provide good service. Not addressing my questions is AVOIDANCE. My meditation page, my personal page were of zero harm to anyone. And the issues for my biz page, could have been resolved with a simply review. Instead, they AVOID the complexity of the systems they
#12 have set in place. Why? Because it will get messy for them. Well, too bad. They bring in sufficient money from discredible persons to afford a proper cadre of ppl to responds to challenges to their disabling of accounts. Their system is no system. It is a greed-based reaction
#13 designed to allow them to say, "we are monitoring for offensive pages+posts" when hauled up to testify. Bt why my account when there are legitimately dangerous posts+ppl who remain on FB? Why indeed! It was expedient and lazy. FB is actually a very LAZY company. They will
#14 not do the hard work, yes, very hard work, of addressing the realities of a public social media platform that has evolved a far distance from its origins. Regulation is required. Regulation is not punitive, it is simply REALITY. The footprint that FB has in the lives of ppl
#15 must be analyzed by not elderly Congressional persons, bt by experts in both the publishing industry as well as the social media industry. It is called social MEDIA. To continue to allow FB to operate as it currently does is setting up an enormous problem in years to come. FB
#16 maintains data that allows them to influence the thinking, the minds of millions of ppl. FB continues to access megabytes of information for profit. It is time for FB to be invited to the grown-ups table. That table is where responsibility becomes part of the equation. But,
#17 until there is political pressure,until there is a massive statement from the public that the subversion of the responsibilities that accompany democracy, and until there is the WILL to wrangle the excesses of FB, this will continue.The coordination of both public & political
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#19-Regulation &accountability! EU has done better in this respect. U.S. has lost its bearings on the connection between democracy & responsibility. FB has a responsibility 2 its users.They want to avoid that for as long as possible.The arbitrariness reveals the absence of policy
#20 When I requested a review, there should have been one! They had no real justification.That is the point! Whew! I am done now. It really bothers me. I am not a bot. I will not be reduced to a bot. My planned LIVE would have brought value into the lives of those who attended.
#21 Final thought,after 21(yes, count them!) threads, bt the concluding thought is: Facebook was wrong! When there is no accountability, the wrong will continue & accelerate. Intervention NOW is the wisest + best course of action. Where are politicians of courage & foresight?