Facebook temporarily suspended Conservative commentator Candace Owens for violating its Community Standards, in line with Facebook.
Facebook temporarily suspended – then restored — conservative commentator Candace Owens’s
account this week when she posted about the “liberal supremacy” threat to black Americans.
In a statement to Fox News, Facebook said they reinstated her
account a day later after determining the post wasn’t in violation of community
standards.
“We’ve restored Ms. Owens’ post and removed the block on her
account after confirming
that the content didn’t violate our policies,” a Facebook spokesperson said Friday.
On Thursday,
Owens, who is
black, posted a statement together with statistics showing
the poverty rates
among African-Americans, whites and African-Americans who are married. The statement
read: “Black America must wake up to the great liberal hoax. White supremacy isn’t a threat. Liberal supremacy is.”
Facebook temporarily suspended – then restored — conservative commentator Candace Owens’s
account this week after she posted about the “liberal supremacy” threat to black Americans.
According to Facebook’s community standards
policy, hate speech is defined as
“a direct attack on people based on what we call protected characteristics — race, ethnicity, national
origin, religious affiliation,
sexual orientation, caste, sex, gender, personal identity, and
serious disease or disability.” The policy also states that Facebook
considers it to be an attack when someone uses “violent or dehumanizing speech, statements of
inferiority, or involves exclusion
or segregation.”
In an interview
with Fox News, Owens said “there
were no threats or hard language”
in her post. She said she
believes “this is an attempt to
silence” her effort to “present a
different story to America.”
On Friday, Facebook restored her post, saying they made a mistake.
“It appears
like we made a mistake and removed something you posted on
Facebook that didn’t go against our community Standards. we want to apologize and let you know that we’ve restored your
content and removed any blocks on your account related to this incorrect action,” Facebook said in a message to Owens.
Owens, a longtime supporter of President Trump, tweeted about her suspension to the
president. “Dear @realDonaldTrump, My @facebook page has been suspended
for 7 days for posting
that white supremacy isn’t a threat to black
America, as much as
father absence and liberal policies that incentivize it, are. I’m censored for posting the poverty rates in fatherless homes,” she wrote.
Even though her account was restored, Owens argued Facebook
was trying to censor
her.
“Typically when they censor conservatives, they mask it behind white supremacy and their
commitment to ending it,” she said. “Their expectation is that masses will believe that excuse without digging further. Censoring me paints a different story, however-as no one with a modicum of intelligence would
be so quick as to accept that
narrative.”
Owens added, “The truth, which most
conservatives know and many fair-minded liberals are waking up to, is that social media corporations are trying to meddle in the 2020 election by silencing and de-platforming certain people.”
Owens made recent headlines over her exchange with Democratic Rep.
from California Ted lieu in what has set a new record for the
most viewed C-SPAN clip from a House hearing on all platforms.
She is additionally founder of the Blexit
movement which aims to
inspire African-Americans to leave the Democratic Party.