Facebook has reinstated the ad account of a conservative children’s book publisher more than a week after the social media giant blocked it from posting ads, a move Facebook now says was made in “error.”
Heroes of Liberty, which publishes biographical children’s books on famous conservative figures such as Ronald Reagan, Thomas Sowell, and Justice Amy Coney Barrett, was permanently banned from posting advertisements on Facebook on Dec. 23.
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But now, after rejecting an appeal from the publishing house, the social media website is saying the ban was made in “error” and the ads account has been restored. However, Heroes of Liberty was not the first to find out that its account had been restored, and it didn’t hear it from Facebook.
In a statement to Fox Business, editor Bethany Mandel said that the company “proactively reached out to several members of Congress and told *them* it was a mistake and we’re back online. Those offices told us.”
A spokesperson for Meta, Facebook’s parent company, told Fox Business, “I wanted to let you know that the ads account was disabled in error and has been restored.”
Facebook had initially claimed that the ban came as a result of failed compliance with the company’s policy on “Low Quality or Disruptive Content.”
Fox Business reported that of the publisher’s 68 ads posted in the month prior to the ban, the company spent 95% of its advertising expenditures on ads that received quality ratings of “average” or “above average.”
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“We are not in politics, we are in the business of creating beautiful stories about great people that will entertain children and give them life lessons. To cancel children’s books because they celebrate American values that 90% of Americans believe in isn’t even anti-conservative bias, it’s anti-American. Pure madness,” Mandel told Fox Business.
