Carrie Mitchem
Case #
913

Facebook censors completely innocent post for unclear reasons: A Twitter user reported that a friend of his had a comment on one of his posts removed from Facebook. The comment that was removed read: "I love this! I have known you and your family my entire life, I love those Ahlers! Your politics do not matter to me, all y'all are still great people no matter how you vote. Some of my best memories come from playing house in the trees in the yard, or riding with Chris on our bikes/horses. I don't want to know most people's political views because regardless of the election on November 4 I still want to call everyone my friend! I do get heartbroken because not everyone sees it that same way." Facebook told the user that her post "goes against our Community Standards," and that no one else could see it. She appealed the decision, and Facebook denied the appeal, saying that they "confirmed your comment didn't follow the Community Standards." For such an innocent comment, the best guess why Facebook did this was that the user mentioned the "election on November 4," which is a day after the actual election day. This comment in no way was attempting to mislead anyone on when the election is, and the part about the date of the election was simply a minor detail in her overall message. However, Facebook did not even make clear that this was the problem with her comment, they just removed it.

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