CrossFit suspends accounts, calls Facebook ‘utopian socialists’

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CrossFit announced on Thursday they have suspended all of their accounts on Facebook and Instagram after the social network “deleted without warning or explanation the Banting7DayMealPlan,” a group dedicated to a diet plan designed “to eat food that is as close to its natural state as possible — free from processing, additives, preservatives and sugar.”

While the group was later reinstated, it was the final straw for CrossFit. The company presented a list of complaints against Facebook as reasons for leaving the platform:

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