Facebook bans posts ‘in support’ of alleged Kenosha shooter Kyle Rittenhouse

By Carly Ortiz-Lytle

Published September 3, 2020 1:48pm ET

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Facebook bans posts ‘in support’ of alleged Kenosha shooter Kyle Rittenhouse — Kyle Rittenhouse helps clean the exterior of Reuther Central High School in Kenosha, Wis., on Tuesday, Aug. 25, 2020. Rittenhouse, 17, was arrested Wednesday, Aug. 26, after two people were shot to death during protests in Kenosha over the police shooting of Jacob Blake.

Facebook will remove posts that it deems to be in support of alleged Kenosha shooter Kyle Rittenhouse.

“We’ve designated the shooting in Kenosha a mass murder and are removing posts in support of the shooter,” Facebook said in a statement to Breitbart News. The statement came after conservative commentator Mark Dice said a video he posted was removed and that Facebook was “threatening to delete my entire account.”

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