Facebook slams British researcher and academic with lifetime ban from platform: UK information and propaganda control researcher, Nicholas O’Shaughnessy, has reportedly been given a lifetime ban from Facebook, according to Breitbart News. “Your account has been permanently disabled for not following the Facebook Community Standards," the academic was told in an email from Facebook, according to Breitbart. "Unfortunately, we won’t be able to reactivate it for any reason. This will be our last message regarding your account." Facebook reportedly never explained specifically what the breach of its Community Standards was. "Speaking to Breitbart, Professor O’Shaughnessy reflected on the irony of the situation where a prominent researcher of information control and propaganda found himself so arbitrarily silenced, and reflected on the possibility that discussions on Facebook arising from his recent works may have been a driving factor," wrote Breitbart reporter Oliver Lane.