{"id":399434,"date":"2019-03-14T05:14:38","date_gmt":"2019-03-14T04:14:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/prison-planet-com-facebook-reverses-zero-hedge-ban-says-it-made-a-mistake\/"},"modified":"2019-03-14T05:14:38","modified_gmt":"2019-03-14T04:14:38","slug":"prison-planet-com-facebook-reverses-zero-hedge-ban-says-it-made-a-mistake","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/prison-planet-com-facebook-reverses-zero-hedge-ban-says-it-made-a-mistake\/","title":{"rendered":"Prison Planet.com \u00bb Facebook Reverses Zero Hedge Ban, Says It Made A \u201cMistake\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>      <!-- START CONTENT --><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/news\/2019-03-12\/facebook-reverses-zero-hedge-ban-says-it-made-mistake\"><strong>Zero Hedge<\/strong><\/a><br \/>March 13, 2019<\/p>\n<p><strong>It has been a strange 24 hours.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>On Monday, we <a href=\"https:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/news\/2019-03-11\/facebook-bans-zero-hedge\">first learned <\/a>that for the previous two days, Facebook had banned all Zero Hedge content across its various mediums, as it went against Facebook\u2019s \u201cCommunity Standards\u201d (which to the best of our knowledge, neither we not anyone else has any idea what they are), a decision which \u2013 as we <a href=\"https:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/news\/2019-03-11\/facebook-bans-zero-hedge\">noted yesterday <\/a>\u2013 surprised us for two reasons: not only do we not have an official Facebook account, but Facebook did not approach us even once with a warning or even notification.<\/p>\n<p>While we were in the dark about what had triggered Facebook, or what was the company\u2019s motive, we were humbled and delighted not only with the media coverage this event received, but far more so with the outpouring of support we received from readers and across social media, where Zero Hedge had not been yet banned, like Twitter, where figures from various industries and across the political spectrum voiced support and came to our defense, with many condemning what we felt was an arbitrary decision.<\/p>\n<p>Among those who spoke up were President Trump\u2019s son Donald Trump Jr., Nigel Farage, Peter Thiel\u2019s liberal foil at Thiel Capital, Eric Weinstein, Infowars\u2019 Paul Joseph Watson and many others.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">The censorship continues. How does \u2066<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/zerohedge?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@zerohedge<\/a>\u2069\u2019s content not \u201cmeet community standards?\u201d FB doesn\u2019t agree with them and they hit the platform\u2019s obvious flaws at times. That\u2019s it and it\u2019s disgusting!<\/p>\n<p>Facebook Bans Zero Hedge | Zero Hedge <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/n6YsFhvFI5\">https:\/\/t.co\/n6YsFhvFI5<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Donald Trump Jr. (@DonaldJTrumpJr) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/DonaldJTrumpJr\/status\/1105440034897960961?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">March 12, 2019<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Get ready for new &amp; improved 2020 US elections. This time, you will be able to share more TrustedNews from AuthoritativeSources w\/o having your user experience degraded by spam, conspiracy theories, or harmful thoughts.<\/p>\n<p>If you miss heterodoxy, try this: <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/NIQsGrsHrP\">https:\/\/t.co\/NIQsGrsHrP<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/Efp5IKQN2q\">pic.twitter.com\/Efp5IKQN2q<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Eric Weinstein&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.prisonplanet.com\/facebook-reverses-zero-hedge-ban-says-it-made-a-mistake.html\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Zero HedgeMarch 13, 2019 It has been a strange 24 hours. On Monday, we first learned that for the previous two days, Facebook had banned all Zero Hedge content across its various mediums, as it went against Facebook\u2019s \u201cCommunity Standards\u201d (which to the best of our knowledge, neither we not anyone else has any idea [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-399434","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/399434","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=399434"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/399434\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=399434"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=399434"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=399434"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}