Social media employees should not be arbiters of truth

Published January 5, 2022 5:00am ET



Facebook has now claimed that its permanent ban on Heroes of Liberty — a children’s book publisher specializing in biographies of such figures as former President Ronald Reagan, Justice Amy Coney Barrett, and economist Thomas Sowell — was simply “an error.”

In the absence of some further explanation of what the error was, this is a completely unsatisfactory explanation.

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