How Real Activists Learned Facebook Was Deleting Their Protest Page for ‘Inauthentic Behavior’

How Real Activists Learned Facebook Was Deleting Their Protest Page for ‘Inauthentic Behavior’

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On Tuesday, Brendan Orsinger logged onto Facebook only to be surprised by a notification. It simply said a protest page he’d co-managed had been deleted from the platform. Orsinger, a 36-year-old who resides in Washington, DC, was one of many local activists promoting an event to oppose “Unite the Right,” a white supremacist rally that turned fatal in Charlottesville, VA last year, and would be descending on DC next month.

For several months, a coalition of anti-fascist groups, known as Shut It Down DC, had been organizing a nonviolent display against “Unite the Right 2 - DC.” A Facebook event was created for the protest by a page called “Resisters,” which is not part of the coalition, and where Orsinger served as an admin.

How Real Activists Learned Facebook Was Deleting Their Protest Page for ‘Inauthentic Behavior’

Aug 3, 2018, 9:24pm UTC
https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/d3e49j/how-real-activists-learned-facebook-was-deleting-their-protest-page-for-inauthentic-behavior-russia-unite-the-right > On Tuesday, Brendan Orsinger logged onto Facebook only to be surprised by a notification. It simply said a protest page he’d co-managed had been deleted from the platform. Orsinger, a 36-year-old who resides in Washington, DC, was one of many local activists promoting an event to oppose “Unite the Right,” a white supremacist rally that turned fatal in Charlottesville, VA last year, and would be descending on DC next month. > For several months, a coalition of anti-fascist groups, known as Shut It Down DC, had been organizing a nonviolent display against “Unite the Right 2 - DC.” A Facebook event was created for the protest by a page called “Resisters,” which is not part of the coalition, and where Orsinger served as an admin.