Facebook cites ‘organised hate’ for removing Robinson from social media
Tommy Robinson has had his official Facebook page and Instagram profile removed because he has posted “in ways that violate our policies around organised hate”, the social network has said.
Facebook said Mr Robinson’s page had “repeatedly broken these standards, posting material that uses dehu- manising language and calls for violence targeted at Muslims”.
Mr Robinson, whose real name is Stephen Yaxley-lennon, had amassed more than one million followers on Facebook where he regular posts live videos and appeals for donations.
He said he had not heard of his ban from Facebook, claiming the “corrupt media and the establishment” were trying “to silence any opposition to their globalist plans”. Mr Robinson said: “When putting me in prison and trying to kill me hasn’t worked, when then trying to get mainstream documentaries to destroy my name with false allegations, that hasn’t worked. Now the establishment, which has gone for the plan of completely removing me from the public sphere, people will fight against this censorship, people will not like this censorship.
“You’re not just censoring me, you’re censoring the public’s option of listening to what I have to say. This is a complete attack on free speech, which is going on across the world.”
A spokesman for Momentum, the grassroots movement supportive of Jeremy Corbyn and the Labour Party, said: “Hate speech isn’t free speech and spreading racist lies shouldn’t be tolerated on our shared digital platforms.”
Emails and tweets from Mr Robinson were used as eviactivist dence in the trial of Darren Osborne, who was convicted of murder for driving a van into worshippers outside two mosques in London, to show his path of “radicalisation” before committing the attack in June 2017.
Youtube is home to Mr Robinson’s last remaining official profile on a mainstream social network, where he has nearly 300,000 subscribers. He was banned from Twitter in March last year.