Facebook Unpublishes Wisconsin's Top-Ranked Conservative News Site, Wisconsin Right Now
One of our most recent posts defended former Lt. Gov. Rebecca Kleefisch against sexism. They unpublished us for our factual coverage of Kyle Rittenhouse and for sharing an iconic piece of journalism about Sept. 11, 2001.
Facebook has censored Wisconsin Right Now, Wisconsin's top-ranked and award-winning conservative news site, by unpublishing its Facebook page for no legitimate reason.
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Unbelievably, Facebook said we violated community standards on April 21, 2022, for an old post that was a share of an article about an ICONIC, famous piece of journalism called the Falling Man. The Falling Man is a highly regarded and well-respected evocative magazine article by Esquire Magazine's Tom Junod. Many consider it the BEST piece of journalism about 9/11.
We appealed that violation. They reversed it (see below for the original post - it was just a story share), but left our page unpublished, even though that was the reason cited for unpublishing it. Got that?
We tried to appeal, but when we click on the appeal link in the email they sent us, it goes to an error page.
We pride ourselves on factual coverage. We do not further or traffic in conspiracy theories or false information. We meticulously fact-check all of our stories, file open records requests, interview people, go to scenes, etc. And we have won prestigious journalism awards that recognize the care we put into our work.
The story, which we didn't write, eloquently and sensitively compared the iconic Falling Man to the horrific scenes of people jumping from planes in Afghanistan. The photo with the story is a famous photo used by MANY credible news sites to properly humanize the horrors of the terrorist attacks. Junod's search for the Falling Man's identity is a moving story about the need to humanize the civilians who died that day.
We do NOT have a long history of violations. Let us be blunt. Facebook unpublished us for the Falling Man post and for our coverage last November of the Kyle Rittenhouse trial. That's because they started restricting us over Rittenhouse.
Apparently posting a story about the Falling Man, which they now admit did not violate their community standards, is enough to get us unpublished now because they didn't like our previous analysis on Rittenhouse, who was acquitted.
Facebook hit us with a couple of previous "community standards" violations last November for our fact-based coverage of the Kyle Rittenhouse trial (we won a 2021 Milwaukee Press Club award for it). What didn't they like about our Rittenhouse coverage? They socked us with a violation for a fact-based analysis of state firearms laws and the Rittenhouse case that was proven correct (the judge dismissed the charge a couple days later). Then they hit us for complaining that they were banning readers from sharing that post.
Got that? They thought it was a violation to analyze Wisconsin laws - correctly. They deemed Rittenhouse a dangerous person or organization, removing his presumption of innocence, and didn't even reverse the violations when he was acquitted by a jury of his peers. They also didn't like a silly meme we posted about the judge in the Rittenhouse trial playing video games with Rittenhouse.
After that, they banned us from going on Facebook Live and restricted our ability to invite people to our page. That's even though our Facebook Live coverage of the Kenosha riots was viewed by thousands of people. We simply walked around and showed people what was really going on at a time the media had basically left.
Right now in America, the free flow of information is controlled by a couple of large, unaccountable tech companies. This should frighten all Americans who care about Democracy. You don't know who is making the decisions and sometimes even why.
Rittenhouse is when they started aggressively watching us. But we had only two violations between our Rittenhouse coverage and being unpublished: The Falling Man story share and a share of a Fox News story, which Facebook's fact-checkers said was partially false. That's the only other thing they ever knocked us for.
Facebook Unpublishes Wisconsin Right Now
So got that? To round it up, we were unpublished for:- Sharing the story about the iconic journalistic masterpiece on 9/11, The Falling Man Sharing a Fox News story deemed "partly false."
- Sharing our own fact-based, proven-correct analysis of Wisconsin gun laws and Kyle Rittenhouse.
- Informing readers that Facebook was unfairly banning people from sharing the fact-based, proven correct analysis of gun laws.
- A silly, joking and harmless meme about the judge and Rittenhouse playing videogames.
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