{"id":2638,"date":"2022-01-27T01:38:46","date_gmt":"2022-01-27T00:38:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/monblogeur.tech\/index.php\/2022\/01\/27\/moms-for-liberty-says-chapter-facebook-groups-unfairly-censored-in-letter-to-zuckerberg-florida-today\/"},"modified":"2022-01-27T01:38:46","modified_gmt":"2022-01-27T00:38:46","slug":"moms-for-liberty-says-chapter-facebook-groups-unfairly-censored-in-letter-to-zuckerberg-florida-today","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/monblogeur.tech\/index.php\/2022\/01\/27\/moms-for-liberty-says-chapter-facebook-groups-unfairly-censored-in-letter-to-zuckerberg-florida-today\/","title":{"rendered":"Moms for Liberty says chapter Facebook groups unfairly censored in letter to Zuckerberg &#8211; Florida Today"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"cfbc967f0983488262956e73eca9483a\" data-index=\"1\" style=\"float: none; margin:10px 0 10px 0; text-align:center;\">\n<script async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-3859091246952232\" crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script>\r\n<!-- blok -->\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\" data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-3859091246952232\" data-ad-slot=\"1334354390\"><\/ins>\r\n<script>\r\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script>\r\n\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.floridatoday.com\/subscribe\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-t-l=\":b|e|inline click|${u}\" class=\"gnt_ar_b_a\"><em><strong>Support local journalism. Unlock unlimited digital access to floridatoday.com. Click here and subscribe today.<\/strong><\/em><\/a><br \/>Founders of <a href=\"\/story\/news\/education\/2021\/09\/16\/covid-mask-mandate-moms-for-liberty-brevard-county-lawsuit-surge-florida-schools-coronavirus-delta\/8361778002\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-t-l=\":b|e|inline click|${u}\" class=\"gnt_ar_b_a\">conservative group Moms for Liberty<\/a> accused Facebook of censoring some of the group&rsquo;s\u00a0social media pages in an open letter to Mark Zuckerberg, CEO of Facebook\u2019s parent company, Meta.<br \/>Tina Descovich and Tiffany Justice, co-founders of Moms for Liberty, wrote that 22 of Moms for Liberty\u2019s chapter groups around the nation have had their Facebook pages disabled in recent weeks after receiving notifications of community violations.<br \/>\u00ab\u00a0Our groups have been shut down repeatedly,\u00a0\u00bb Descovich and Justice wrote in the Monday letter.\u00a0\u00ab\u00a0Our admin accounts have been suspended and our National Page restricted from posting for &lsquo;security reasons.&rsquo; We have not been provided with any information about what these &lsquo;security reasons&rsquo;\u00a0might be, leaving us unable to address any concerns. This severely impacts our ability to pursue our core mission of helping American parents organize to participate in the education of their children.<br \/>Justice is a former Indian River County School Board member and Descovich is a former Brevard County School Board member. Moms for Liberty has gained national attention for its members\u2019 protests and remarks at school board meetings over topics\u00a0such as COVID-19 restrictions, critical race theory and LGBTQ issues.\u00a0The group, founded last January, now has\u00a0more than 150 chapters in 32 states. Most chapters organize their members primarily via a network of Facebook groups.<br \/>In their letter, Justice and Descovich said Meta had bowed to pressure from liberal groups that accuse groups like\u00a0Moms for Liberty of extremism.<br \/>In October, the National Education Association (NEA) \u2013 a labor union representing teachers and school support staff \u2013 sent an open letter to executives of Facebook, Twitter and TikTok calling on the social media companies to staunch the flow of misinformation and violent rhetoric on their platforms.<br \/>The NEA letter warned of \u201ca small but violent group of radicalized adults who falsely believe that graduate level courses about racism are being taught in K-12 public schools\u201d and \u201canother small yet vocal group of extremists who are putting the safety of our children, educators, and families at risk over the notion that wearing a mask is in infringement on personal liberty.\u201d\u00a0<br \/><strong class=\"gnt_ar_b_al\">More:<\/strong><a href=\"\/story\/news\/education\/2021\/11\/08\/moms-liberty-brevard-sues-school-board-over-first-amendment-rights\/6337527001\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-t-l=\":b|e|inline click|${u}\" class=\"gnt_ar_b_a\">Moms for Liberty sues Brevard School Board, saying speech rules discriminate by view<\/a><br \/><strong class=\"gnt_ar_b_al\">More:<\/strong><a href=\"\/story\/news\/education\/2022\/01\/23\/brevard-public-schools-conscious-discipline-critical-race-theory-institute-summer-program\/6605899001\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-t-l=\":b|e|inline click|${u}\" class=\"gnt_ar_b_a\">Brevard School Board: training accused of critical race theory has nothing to do with race<\/a><br \/>Descovich and Justice wrote that Meta \u201chas determined to act as an enforcement agent on (NEA\u2019s) behalf. Facebook has not specified what violations the group pages committed, and one chapter group was taken down the same day it launched, they said. They asked Meta to stop its scrutiny of Moms for Liberty\u2019s group pages.<br \/>\u201cToday there are powerful, entrenched, deeply ideological interest groups exerting every pressure they can to use your platform in a way that stacks the deck in favor of particular groups at the expense of everyday citizens,\u201d Descovich and Justice wrote. \u201cWe ask that your company apply the same standards to our groups as you apply to others.\u201d<br \/>In a statement, Meta said some of Moms for Liberty&rsquo;s Facebook content had been removed by mistake and has been restored.<br \/>\u201cMeta doesn\u2019t target any group because of their politics,\u00a0\u00bb a Meta spokesperson wrote in a statement.\u00a0\u00ab\u00a0After reviewing the content associated with this organization, we determined that some was removed correctly for violating our misinformation policies, but we removed some other content by mistake and have restored it.\u201d<br \/>Descovich and Justice&rsquo;s letter\u00a0echoes\u00a0criticism from Republican politicians about social media company&rsquo;s moderation practices are biased against conservatives.\u00a0<br \/>Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis signed a law in May\u00a0barring social media platforms from banning political candidates from their platforms. The measure followed former President Donald Trump\u2019s ban from Twitter and Facebook, though Republican supporters said the bill was unrelated. The legislation enacted fines for companies that \u201cknowingly de-platform\u201d political candidates but was blocked by a federal judge in June.<br \/><em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.floridatoday.com\/staff\/4387154002\/bailey-gallion\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-t-l=\":b|e|inline click|${u}\" class=\"gnt_ar_b_a\">Bailey Gallion<\/a> is the education reporter for FLORIDA TODAY. Contact Gallion at 321-242-3786 or <a href=\"mailto:bgallion@floridatoday.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-t-l=\":b|e|inline click|${u}\" class=\"gnt_ar_b_a\">bgallion@floridatoday.com<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.floridatoday.com\/story\/news\/education\/2022\/01\/25\/moms-liberty-letter-facebook-ceo-accuses-site-censoring-pages\/9204834002\/\">source<\/a><\/p>\n<!--CusAds0-->\n<div style=\"font-size: 0px; height: 0px; line-height: 0px; margin: 0; padding: 0; clear: both;\"><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Support local journalism. Unlock unlimited digital access to floridatoday.com. Click here and subscribe today.Founders of conservative group Moms for Liberty accused Facebook of censoring some of the group&rsquo;s\u00a0social media pages in an open letter to Mark Zuckerberg, CEO of Facebook\u2019s parent company, Meta.Tina Descovich and Tiffany Justice, co-founders of Moms for Liberty, wrote that 22 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"googlesitekit_rrm_CAow1sXXCw:productID":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2638","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-non-classe"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/monblogeur.tech\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2638","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/monblogeur.tech\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/monblogeur.tech\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/monblogeur.tech\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/monblogeur.tech\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2638"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/monblogeur.tech\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2638\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/monblogeur.tech\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2638"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/monblogeur.tech\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2638"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/monblogeur.tech\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2638"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}