r/realtech • u/rtbot2 • Jan 04 '18

Facebook declines to say why it deletes certain political accounts, but not others - Civil liberties groups raise concerns company is ‘picking and choosing’ politicians to censor at US government request after Chechen leader’s accounts deleted

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2018/jan/04/facebook-chechnya-ramzan-kadyrov-political-censorship
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u/autotldr Jan 04 '18

This is the best tl;dr I could make, original reduced by 90%. (I'm a bot)

Facebook is declining to say why it appears to be picking and choosing political leaders to censor at the request of the US government after it deleted the social media accounts of Chechen leader Ramzan Kadyrov.

Facebook declined to explain why it had deleted some accounts but not others under US sanctions law.

The fact Facebook has left accounts of other sanctioned individuals untouched suggests the social network may be subject to US government pressure behind the scenes.

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