Trump supporters Lynette Hardaway and Rochelle Richardson, more commonly known as Diamond and Silk, will testify before the House Judiciary Committee on Thursday after saying they were censored on Facebook.
Although Facebook has said they had direct communication with the duo, they plan on sticking to their story while testifying that they were never contacted by Facebook in regards to allegations that their Facebook presence was unsafe to the community, the sisters told Business Insider.
“This not like we just magically just pulled this out of the air,” Silk said. “We went back and forth with Facebook only for Facebook to come and email us on April the 5th to let us know that we are unsafe to the community. They deemed us unsafe to the community.”
Diamond and Silk became a talking point of Facebook founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg’s hearings before Congress earlier this month, but Zuckerberg claimed the “unsafe to the community” label was an enforcement error.
“We have already gotten in touch with them to reverse it,” Zuckerberg assured lawmakers.
“Facebook said they was in direct communication with us,” Silk said. “Direct communication is as if they talked to us. That’s what direct communication means. Direct communication means that you know that we are also in communication, OK? That didn’t happen.”
However, it was debunked by conservative commentator Erick Erickson that Facebook did reach out to Hardaway and Richardson several times by phone, Facebook Messenger, and multiple email addresses.
The two, who regularly appear as guests on Fox News, said the messages never reached them because of the volume of interactions they receive on those mediums.
