Diamond and Silk, two black women who strongly support President Trump, warned Wednesday that conservatives may be getting ready to abandon Facebook after the company branded the duo as “unsafe to the community” and blocked their content from 1.4 million followers.
“This has to be an even playing field. If Mark Zuckerberg can’t make this an even playing field, Facebook is going to be the face without the book and the book with no face when we are done with it,” Lynnette “Diamond” Hardaway said on Fox News.
Co-anchor Brian Kilmeade took the comment as a hint that if the two women feel attacked and leave Facebook, their audience may follow their lead.
“Fox News viewers are probably their biggest users, so they better watch what they are doing,” Kilmeade responded.
Diamond’s suggestion comes less than a day after Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, asked Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg during a hearing why Diamond and Silk’s 1.4 million-follower page had its content blocked from being shared.
Both women on Wednesday said Zuckerberg failed to answer the lawmaker’s question and added that although their page is up and running, their posts are being “suppressed” so that even followers who change their settings to see their videos at the top of the news feed are not seeing their content.
“What is so unsafe about two black women supporting the president of the United States?” Rochelle “Silk” Richardson asked.
“We are not unsafe. We are not animals,” Diamond added.
She also complained that Facebook never contacted them about changes to their page and amended the sharing settings in a covert way.
“Why is he being biased toward conservatives, Republicans, people that support our president? And why is he trying to turn his platform into a political playground? And what is he going to do to rectify this with Diamond and Silk because we are not unsafe to our community?” Diamond asked.
“If he was concerned about his platform being a place for all ideas, then why would he put algorithms in place to censor some ideas? And why is he turning Facebook into a political playground for Democrats?” she added. “That’s what he is doing. He is so concerned about the midterms, the 2018 midterms because he doesn’t want any interference.”
Zuckerberg returns to Capitol Hill Wednesday morning for a second day of hearings.
.@DiamondandSilk on @foxandfriends: “We are not unsafe. We are not animals…Why is [Mark Zuckerberg] trying to turn his platform into a political playground?” https://t.co/3uKqpwxFhM pic.twitter.com/FLKvJY5Xkh
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