Conservative commentator Mark Levin said Facebook restricted his page the day before the election for sharing “false news.”
“Facebook has now placed severe restrictions on my Facebook page on the eve before the election based on an extremely dishonest Politifact review of my link to an accurate story,” Levin said on Twitter Monday. “I will not be intimidated or threatened by Facebook. You can also find my posts on Twitter and Parler.”
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Facebook has now placed severe restrictions on my Facebook page on the eve before the election based on an extremely dishonest Politifact review of my link to an accurate story. I will not be intimidated or threatened by Facebook. You can also find my posts on Twitter and Parler pic.twitter.com/JFjdpz990c
— Mark R. Levin (@marklevinshow) November 2, 2020
It’s unclear what post Levin is referring to in his tweet, but one post rated as false information by Facebook on Levin’s page is a link to a tweet from Richard Grenell depicting Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden not wearing a mask on a plane and accusing him of hypocrisy.
Facebook rated the post as “false news” and included a link to a PolitiFact article under the post. According to PolitiFact, the photo in question depicts Biden in 2019, well before the start of the pandemic in the United States.
“This post was flagged as part of Facebook’s efforts to combat false news and misinformation on its News Feed,” the PolitiFact article said.
“That’s because the photo of Biden without a mask is from November 2019, before the first case of COVID-19 was reported in China the following month,” the fact-check continued.
“The image ran in a story in Vogue magazine about Remi Yamamoto, Biden’s traveling national press secretary,” the fact-check reported. “The caption says: ‘Yamamoto and Biden huddle on a flight to South Carolina in November 2019.”
“We rate this tweet false,” the fact-check concluded.
Social media giants such as Facebook and Twitter have been under increased scrutiny ahead of the 2020 election. After the companies faced criticism for allowing the spread of misinformation in the lead up to the 2016 election, the tech giants vowed to redouble their efforts to combat false news.
More recently, Facebook and Twitter received criticism for limiting the reach of a New York Post story claiming to have evidence of Biden family corruption overseas. The suppression of that story led to Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey and Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg’s testimony in front of the Senate last week.
Both Facebook and Twitter have been accused of bias against conservative news sources and personalities since the censoring of the New York Post story.
