The Mail on Sunday

Shot down by Facebook’s idiot censors

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I HAVE been given Facebook’s seal of disapprova­l for saying something they disliked about Covid muzzles (a major experiment shows they’re useless, and Facebook don’t like that getting out).

So my sympathy goes out to the Wimborne Militia, a harmless and picturesqu­e historical re-enactment society in Dorset, who had their accounts disabled by Facebook’s witless censors, who seem to have thought they were a band of US white supremacis­ts.

A moment’s research would have shown that the action was ridiculous, but Facebook is now so powerful and self-righteous that it feels no need to make such checks. Censor first and ask questions afterwards. The power of such bodies, if not checked, will stifle freedom very quickly.

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