A few months ago I did an article on Lynnette Hardaway and Rochelle Richardson, better known by their stage name Diamond and Silk. They are pro- Trump vloggers and have seemed to had made an unpleasant impression on the Facebook censorship folks. They have declared them “unsafe for the community.” The pair who have over a million followers, made their displeasure at the decision known, by releasing the following statement on their Facebook page:
Diamond And Silk
Diamond And Silk have been corresponding since September 7, 2017, with Facebook (owned by Mark Zuckerberg), about their bias censorship and discrimination against D&S brand page. Finally after several emails, chats, phone calls, appeals, beating around the bush, lies, and giving us the run around, Facebook gave us another bogus reason why Millions of people who have liked and/or followed our page no longer receives notification and why our page, post and video reach was reduced by a very large percentage. Here is the reply from Facebook. Thu, Apr 5, 2018 at 3:40 PM: “The Policy team has came to the conclusion that your content and your brand has been determined unsafe to the community.” Yep, this was FB conclusion after 6 Months, 29 days, 5 hrs, 40 minutes and 43 seconds. Oh and guess what else Facebook said: “This decision is final and it is not appeal-able in any way.” (Note: This is the exact wording that FB emailed to us.)
So our questions to Facebook (Mark Zuckerberg) are:
1. What is unsafe about two Blk-women supporting the President Donald J. Trump?
2. Our FB page has been created since December 2014, when exactly did the content and the brand become unsafe to the community?
3. When you say “community” are you referring to the Millions who liked and followed our page?
4. What content on our page was in violation?
5. If our content and brand was so unsafe to the community, why is the option for us to boost our content and spend money with FB to enhance our brand page still available? Maybe FB should give us a refund since FB censored our reach.
6. Lastly, didn’t FB violate their own policy when FB stopped sending notifications to the Millions of people who liked and followed our brand page?
This is deliberate bias censorship and discrimination. These tactics are unacceptable and we want answers!
~Diamond and Silk
Like I said in my last article, I don’t care too much for their politics, but I like their style. There are plenty of pro-Trump activist on Facebook, and it begs to wonder why these two were singled out. Some are pointing out, it is because they are black. If that’s the reason, then while I don’t support their message, I do support their right to say it. The complaints come as Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg prepares to testify before Congress in hearings set for Tuesday and Wednesday. The 33-year-old founder has been under fire from the public and lawmakers regarding Facebook’s privacy practices amid a scandal involving Cambridge Analytica, a data analytics firm that worked for the Trump campaign. Cambridge Analytica obtained data on upwards of 87 million Facebook users, in the United States in 2016 without consent. If you like to see their message you can click here.
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