Arizona governor Jan Brewer says she was “censored” by Facebook after a posting she made on the social network was removed by the site’s staff. In her post, Brewer had criticized the Obama administration’s recent decision to halt prosecutions of many illegal immigrants
“Facebook censored the post and removed it because the photo apparently violated their ‘Facebook Community Standards.’ Before it was removed, it had received over 10,000 likes and comments,” Brewer said in a subsequent post.
According to Brewer, the initial post was taken down because was because a comedic drawing of her face superimposed onto the famous “Rosie the Riveter” character from World War II was included in it. The picture has been used by Brewer for previous Facebook posts and exists in multiple locations on her official profile.
In a statement apologizing for the removal, Facebook did not state why the drawing triggered the censorship, however it is likely that this is yet another case of ever-so-tolerant liberals abusing web alert mechanisms to censor those with differing political opinions. This is a phenomenon, called “flag spam,” is one that I’ve written about before that seems to happen far more commonly to content that is put out by conservatives or libertarian.
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