Posted on 04/11/2018 6:07:59 PM PDT by grundle
Two sisters famous for praising President Trump say Facebook has deemed their videos dangerous.
Lynette Hardaway and Rochelle Richardson are better known as “Diamond and Silk” to their hundreds of thousands of fans — one of whom is Trump. The sisters, who are black, campaigned for him in an election in which blacks overwhelmingly voted against the Republican. And the sisters continue to defend him against accusations of racism. (“Build that wall, build it tall, protect us all before this country falls,” they once rapped)
Thank you Diamond and Silk! https://t.co/qdsLUy2hqD — Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) June 6, 2016
The sisters’ on-camera style — Diamond (Hardaway) typically attacks Trump’s critics in long rants while Silk (Richardson) chants affirmatively beside her — has brought them nearly 1.4 million followers on Facebook.
But in September, the sisters say, the social media giant began to prevent them from notifying followers of new videos and started to limit the spread of their posts. It is unclear whether the pair was affected by Facebook’s various changes to its algorithm, which have affected other publishers, as well.
Diamond and Silk said they spent months trying to get an explanation from Facebook. Last week, they shared excerpts of an email that they said the company sent them on Thursday:
“The Policy team has came to the conclusion that your content and your brand has been determined unsafe to the community,” it read. “This decision is final and it is not appeal-able in any way.”
(Excerpt) Read more at washingtonpost.com ...
They were determined to be “unsafe to the community” because some leftist employee does not want two black women to be seen who don’t espouse leftist views. It was purely racism and sexism.
Post is Jeff Bezos, Amazon.com’s child. No telling what pleasure or schadenfreude he gets over this.
Anyone who uses Facebook must know that their auto and homeowners insurance has been underwritten based on report from a company that is not Equifax. I saw that back in 2009 or so. I left Facebook fast. My rates were jacked up.
The Twitter CEO is total a-hole.
Zuckerberg is lost in both his inexperience and fortunes. The Leftwing employees @ Facebook are left alone to exercise and enforce their insanity.
They were on Laura’s show tonight and said they have not been contacted by anyone from Facebook. They said people are still having problems getting messages from their FB Page.
Sucker berg lied about that.
hey, look: WaPo picks up a story and calls it “news” weeks after we here already knew about it ... oh, yeah, it had become a story that was simply too big for them to ignore
“My fake persona on my fake facebook page is fakely offended by this.”
not me. MY fake persona on facebook cares not one whit about anything ... it exists simply as a convenient means to provide instant login credentials on hundreds of thousands of websites ...
Two of the funniest women on the web. Silk has brilliant timing.
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