Yes, Facebook Treats Trump Fans Differently: It Has Relaxed The Rules To Give Them More Leeway

Yes, Facebook Treats Trump Fans Differently: It Has Relaxed The Rules To Give Them More Leeway

I know that it’s become accepted wisdom among some that the various social media platforms have an “anti-conservative bias” in how they moderate content. However, we’ve yet to see any evidence to actually support such a claim. Indeed, one study that has been pointed to frequently seemed to show that Twitter, at least, had an anti-Nazi and anti-troll policy — and unless you think “conservatives” are synonymous with Nazis and trolls, then that doesn’t really prove very much. Of course, there was another report that came out around that time noting that some Republican politicians’ accounts were indistinguishable from Nazi accounts — so… who knows?