Activists push back on Facebook’s decision to remove a DC protest event
https://techcrunch.com/2018/08/01/facebook-organizers-protest-no-unite-the-right-2/
A number of activists and organizers in the Washington, DC area are disputing Facebook’s decision to remove a counter-protest event against a rally organized by Jason Kessler, the white nationalist figure who planned the deadly 2017 rally in Charlottesville, Va.
Facebook removed the event, “No Unite the Right 2-DC,” after discovering that one account connected to the event exhibited what Facebook calls “coordinated inauthentic behavior.” The company defines this activity as “people or organizations creating networks of accounts to mislead others about who they are, or what they’re doing.”